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Why is serious mental illness in young adults missed so often?
TakePart
Most serious mental illnesses — seriously debilitating conditions like schizophrenia and psychosis — start when people are in their teens or as young adults. If they're caught and treated very early, the severity of the illness can often be curbed. That's why it's painful to hear that a wide range of people — doctors, parents, teachers and the victims themselves — so often miss the early signs of mental illness during these young years, thus failing to get them prompt medical treatment and leading to much worse financial and social costs as the illness goes untreated.
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Genetic links found among 5 psychiatric disorders
Psychiatric News
A study that's being characterized as the largest genetic study of psychiatric illness ever undertaken could someday result in psychiatric disorders being classified on the basis of biomarkers, rather than descriptive syndromes.
Wellness takes the lead for Stress Awareness Month
Forbes
With work stress at disturbing levels in an uncertain marketplace, the American Psychological Association among others, have sounded the alert to big business that a stress-out overwhelmed workforce is no way to compete.
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Health advocacy a growing benefit
Employee Benefit News
Transforming employees’ experience with their health care can pay big dividends, particularly as the benefits industry moves toward a more consumer-driven model, said Jack Stoddard, chief operating officer with Accolade, a health assistant and advocacy company. Among organizations that offer wellness program incentives, 12 percent provide incentives for the use of health care navigators or advocates, according to a NBGH/Fidelity survey.
Primary care doctors welcome mental health professionals
The Denver Post
A growing number of primary care doctors in the Denver metro area are opening their doors to mental health professionals to help treat their patients — part of a trend toward integrating health services. Rather than sending patients away with a scribbled phone number and telling them to make an appointment with a psychologist, these doctors can pull the in-house clinician into a patient's room for an instant consult.
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Monitoring upends balance of power at workplace, some say
Los Angeles Times
In a drive to cut costs and improve efficiency, companies are employing an ever-increasing array of tracking and monitoring technology to see what their employees are doing at all times. For companies, it makes sense: In a globalized world, anyone who doesn't cut costs could soon be out of business. But the monitoring is changing the relationship between employers and employees, further upsetting the balance of power in the workplace.
Recession gets the blame for recent uptick in employee theft
Business Insurance
When times get tough, employees may be tempted to steal from their employers, as was evidenced by the uptick in employee theft and dishonesty that occurred during the most recent economic downturn. Given that it often takes 18 months to uncover incidents of employee theft, most of the occupational fraud that occurred during the recession are just now coming to light, according to a report published by the Austin, Texas-based Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.
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Legislator: Rutgers' Rice shows need for anti-bullying laws
Philadelphia Inquirer
The videotaped ravings of Rutgers basketball coach Mike Rice — fired recently — show the need for anti-bullying laws at colleges, New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg and Congressman Rush Holt said. The two lawmakers had previously introduced a bill requiring colleges and universities to include a policy statement prohibiting harassment by students, faculty and staff. It also authorizes grants for programs to prevent bullying.
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Well-being the '2nd revolution' for women in the workplace
Women's Agenda
While the corporate world may have come to appreciate the necessity of female talent, and the need to ensure such talent is treated fairly through the provision of incentives and programs, the revolution has done little to improve the well-being of women. For many, it's seen their well-being adversely affected.
Survey: Telework options still growing
Employee Benefit News
According to a recent survey, it's more telework options that employers should be considering, not fewer. Unsurprisingly, employees are fans: 93 percent of surveyed workers say that telecommuting programs are mutually beneficial, according to the second annual Staples Advantage survey.
Stanford philosopher seeks to create more just and fair workplace for caregivers
Stanford News
While federal programs like the Family and Medical Leave Act and the National Family Caregiver Support Program mitigate some of the physical and financial tolls of caregiving, Stanford philosopher Sara Mrsny says that current policies leave the majority of caregivers in an unfair position. Mrsny is pursuing a philosophical investigation of the topic by examining research from the social sciences and other disciplines to make a case for why additional laws are needed that support caregivers and accommodate them in workplaces.
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