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EAPA
Welcome to our new monthly feature! EA Industry Spotlight is a round up of bit-sized articles covering our field. This February, we include "Study Examines Impact of EAP," "EAP Workplace Outcome Suite Evaluates Outcomes for DuPont," a book review of "Global Perspective of Employee Assistance Programs." And there's more...
SAMHSA
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration released a new resource to help consumers better understand mental health and substance use disorder benefits last week. The pamphlet, titled "Parity of Mental Health and Substance Use Benefits with Other Benefits" examines the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act and the standards it created. The resource discusses why mental health and substance use disorder benefit claims may be denied, and how to effectively file an appeal if necessary.
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The Wall Street Journal
Employee wellness firms and insurers are working with companies to mine data about the prescription drugs workers use, how they shop and even whether they vote, to predict their individual health needs and recommend treatments.
Trying to stem rising health care costs, some companies, including retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc., are paying firms like Castlight Healthcare Inc. to collect and crunch employee data to identify, for example, which workers are at risk for diabetes, and target them with personalized messages nudging them toward a doctor or services such as weight-loss programs.
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The Vancouver Sun
Whether it's a slender arm reaching for a vodka shot in a college dorm room or a working mother cooking dinner with a glass of wine — or three, the amount of alcohol downed by females is raising health concerns as never before.
Journalist and author Ann Dowsett Johnston helped launch the conversation with her 2013 book "Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol."
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Psychotherapy Networker
The topic of mindfulness is everywhere these days. Expert Jon Kabat-Zinn is an expert when it comes to exploring the connection between the intensely private experience of living a meditative life and responding to the vast deluge of global and social problems we collectively face. In this article, he explains what it means to be mindful and why it's becoming increasingly relevant in our modern world.
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The Huffington Post
The United Kingdom is taking a proactive approach to promoting mental health in the workplace. Prime Minister David Cameron met with British business leaders recently to discuss how to better foster a work culture that encourages people to take care of their mental well-being.
"We've not done enough to end the stigma of mental health," Cameron told the BBC. "We focused a lot on physical health, and we haven't, as a country, as a nation, focused enough on mental health."
Now the question is: Can the U.S. do the same?
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By Jessica Taylor
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1 in 68 U.S. children has an autism spectrum disorder, or ASD. There is not a physical aspect that sets these individuals apart from others, but they may communicate, interact, behave and learn in different ways. Yet, according to research, only 58 percent of young adults with autism are employed. Is this because many employers aren't sure of how to create an environment where an employee with ASD can thrive?
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Employee Benefit News
To meet legal requirements and realize savings in health care premiums and employee productivity, the implementation of smoking surcharges should be paired with a robust smoking cessation program.
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The New York Times
Many employers do consider such material before deciding whether to hire someone, and a recent survey by the Society for Human Resource Management found that the trend is growing. This is frequently seen as an issue for job seekers, who are advised to go over their social media posts with an eye for potential offensiveness. But looking at the issue from an employer’s perspective also raises questions, both legal and practical.
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Human Resource Executive Online
Keeping up with changing regulations — part of an HR leader's job — may soon get a whole lot harder, thanks to new rules from the Department of Labor regarding getting outside counsel.
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The New York Times
Over the past few decades, cognitive scientists have found that small alterations in how people study can accelerate and deepen learning, improving retention and comprehension in a range of subjects, including math, science and foreign languages.
The findings come almost entirely from controlled laboratory experiments of individual students, but they are reliable enough that software developers, government-backed researchers and various other innovators are racing to bring them to classrooms, boardrooms, academies — every real-world constituency, it seems, except one that could benefit most: people with learning disabilities.
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