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Employee Assistance Professionals Association
Author and leading expert on coaching abrasive managers, Dr. Laura Crawshaw, will describe how to create and deliver a comprehensive value-added EAP service that addresses prevention and management of abrasive and bullying behavior in the workplace. A former EAP clinician and executive, Crawshaw will show you how to help employers resolve these issues before formal complaints and expensive investigations begin. This is just one of more than 60 cutting-edge presentations at EAPA's 2015 World EAP Conference, Sept. 29-Oct. 2, in San Diego.
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Employee Benefit News
Rising health care costs and concerns for employees' financial wellness and retirement preparedness are nudging employers to re-evaluate their benefit offerings.
Wellness programs have jumped notably since 2011, when 60 percent of employers said they offered some type of wellness programs, according to the Society for Human Resource Management's 2015 Employee Benefits Survey.
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Employee Assistance Professionals Association
EAPA chapter and branch leaders are invited and encouraged to participate in EAPA's second online chapter/branch leader "town hall" meeting, 12-1 p.m. EDT, on Thursday, July 30. The purpose of the meeting is to provide a forum for current and potential leaders to share and hear ideas, best practices, concerns, and challenges regarding how to build, maintain, and nurture thriving chapters and branches. At the first town hall meeting on March 26, participants shared best practices for chapter/branch officer succession planning, engaging more affiliate providers in chapter/branch activities and facilitating EAP internships for graduate students.
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Psych Central
People with blue eyes may be at greater risk for becoming alcoholics, according to a novel study by genetic researchers at the University of Vermont.
The study is the first to identify a direct link between a person's eye color and alcohol dependency. The researchers hope to get closer to finding the roots of not only alcoholism but other psychiatric illnesses as well.
"This suggests an intriguing possibility: that eye color can be useful in the clinic for alcohol dependence diagnosis," says Arvis Sulovari, a doctoral student in cellular, molecular and biological sciences.
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Military Times
Military women who develop postpartum depression are more likely to be diagnosed later with another mental illness and are at higher risk for considering suicide than those who dodge the condition, according to a new report by the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center.
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Reuters
A form of "virtual reality" therapy might help treat alcohol addiction, suggests a preliminary study from South Korea.
The study involved only 10 patients with alcohol dependence. But senior researcher Dr. Doug Hyun Han of Chung-Ang University Hospital in Seoul and colleagues think the approach might be promising, in part because it puts patients in situations similar to real life and requires their active participation.
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Medical News Today
The largest international study to compare brain volumes of people with major depression to those of healthy people finds the former tend to have a significantly smaller hippocampus.
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Entrepreneur
Leading a team isn't easy, and it requires specific skills that not everybody has. Even if you have these skills in spades, at some point, you'll find yourself faced with the challenge of dealing with an unhappy employee.
If you handle this well, you may be able to turn an unhappy performer into a star employee who just needed a little attention and care. If not, you could lose that same would-be star performer due to job dissatisfaction, or worse, find yourself facing legal action from a disgruntled employee.
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The Daily Beast
Among the many systems designed and evolved to maintain clean lines of separation between groups, perhaps few remain as unexplored as those barriers between the mentally well and the mentally ill.
Despite society's fascination with mental illness, be it in advocacy, uncertainty or blame, the myriad ways in which those two worlds collide and interact remains largely a topic lacking in widespread critical examination.
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Psych Central
If your spouse or significant other is suffering from a mental illness such as anxiety or depression, here are a few things to keep in mind that can help them — and help you keep your marriage healthy.
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The Washington Post
Nationwide, police have shot and killed 124 people this year who were in the throes of mental or emotional crisis, according to a Washington Post analysis. The dead account for a quarter of the 462 people shot to death by police in the first six months of 2015.
The vast majority were armed, but in most cases, the police officers who shot them were not responding to reports of a crime. More often, the police officers were called by relatives, neighbors or other bystanders worried that a mentally fragile person was behaving erratically, reports show. More than 50 people were explicitly suicidal.
More than half the killings involved police agencies that have not provided their officers with state-of-the-art training to deal with the mentally ill. And in many cases, officers responded with tactics that quickly made a volatile situation even more dangerous.
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