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Psych Central
Results of Contracts for Safety, where a client is asked to agree either verbally or in writing that she will not engage in self harm, were first published by Drye, et.al. in 1973. Although these original authors only investigated its effectiveness with patients in a long-term relationship with their therapist, the use of the tool has since become standard practice for many crisis teams and clinicians, even during an initial interview. But are they effective?
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Employee Assistance Professionals Association
The number of millennials has passed the number of baby boomers in the global workforce. This generational shift is creating seismic changes in today's workplace. To keep up, the EAP field needs to assure that younger EA professionals have the opportunity to gain the knowledge and global perspective required to function effectively in the new multicultural world. Recognizing this need, EAPA is investing in young EA professionals by offering a significant discount on World EAP Conference registration to anyone under 35. If you are under 35, take advantage of this opportunity to save $325 on conference registration! If you manage or supervise colleagues under 35, capitalize on this opportunity by registering TWO people for essentially the price of ONE!
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The New York Times
People regularly use, misuse or abuse HIPAA, the federal regulations protecting patients' confidential health information. Intended to keep personal health information private, the law does not prohibit health care providers from sharing information with family, friends or caregivers unless the patient specifically objects. Even if he or she is not present or is incapacitated, providers may use "professional judgment" to disclose pertinent information to a relative or friend if it's "in the best interests of the individual."
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U.S. News & World Report
In March, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced an initiative to reduce prescription opioid- and heroin-related overdose, death and drug dependence that highlighted three priority areas, the second of which was increasing the use of naloxone. Burwell also highlighted the need to expand the use of so-called medication-assisted treatment, combining medication with counseling and behavioral therapies to treat individuals who have substance abuse disorders.
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Employee Assistance Professionals Association
Work Exchange Volunteers are an essential ingredient in the success of EAPA's Annual World EAP Conference. This year, at the Town and Country Resort in San Diego, they will assist with activities beginning with pre-conference preparations on Sunday, Sept. 27, through the final event on Friday evening, Oct. 2. Why volunteer? 1) You meet and interact with EA professionals from around the world! 2) In return for contributing to the success of the conference, you receive a free full registration! 3) You can attend sessions and events as time and volunteer responsibilities permit! Get your "backstage pass" to the 2015 World EAP Conference and be a key part of the largest EAP educational and networking event in the world.
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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
"The results support the idea that there is a continuum in our ability to regulate emotions, and if you are at the extreme end of the spectrum, you are likely to have problems with functioning in society and this leads to a psychiatric diagnosis," says Predrag Petrovic of the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet. "According to this idea, such disorders should not be seen as categorical, that you either have the condition or not. It should rather be seen as an extreme variant in the normal variability of the population."
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Human Resource Excutive Online
It's now been a quarter century since the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law. Experts discuss the impact the ADA has had in its first 25 years and how the act figures to affect employers in the years ahead.
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Atlanta Daily World
Jason Snyder's life had two sharply conflicting trajectories.
One had the hallmarks of professional success. Money, fulfilling work, increasing responsibilities.
The other was marked with deceit, hopelessness and tragedy. After years of opiate abuse, he lost himself in a desperate knot of lies, even after watching his parents bury their two sons — his only brothers, Todd and Josh, both casualties of addiction.
Lie by lie, Jason built a house of cards. Concealing his addiction from his then-wife and from his parents. Spending tens of thousands of dollars on painkillers while deceiving himself into thinking that if he could still perform at work, he didn't have a problem.
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NPR via GPB News
A new study of veterans from the Vietnam War has troubling implications for troops who fought much more recently in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The study suggests that 40 years since the Vietnam War ended, hundreds of thousands of those vets still struggle every day with mental health problems linked to the traumas they experienced. It was published in the latest issue of JAMA Psychiatry.
"This study is officially called the National Vietnam Veterans Longitudinal Study," NPR's Daniel Zwerdling reports.
Daniel says that researchers have been studying Vietnam veterans longer than they've studied any other soldiers. Congress ordered the studies to be done to understand how war affects soldiers over most of their lives.
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BMJ Open
The over 50s who are "successful agers" — healthy, active, sociable, and well off — are more at risk of harmful drinking than their less successful peers, concludes research published in the on line journal BMJ Open. Harmful drinking is a "middle-class phenomenon" which may be a hidden health and social problem in otherwise successful older people, warn the researchers, who call for explicit guidelines on alcohol consumption for this group
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