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Employee Assistance Professionals
The “Spotlight on Employee Assistance” is a roundup of bit-sized news items relevant to EA. This month, we include news about the 2018 Call for Proposals, new research on the effectiveness of EAPs, and an innovative way to promote EAP utilization. The EA Professional Spotlight features Grace Barnhill, EAPA’s new Membership Administrator. And there’s more.
EmployerLINC
There is a needed focus on mental health issues these days. We see it on social media as well as in the news. And, as a nation, we are hopefully moving to a place were individuals can get the help they need without any stigma attached. This is true in the employment context as well. Even though many employers offer benefits such as employee assistant programs that allow employees to access mental health services, mental health is still a difficult issue to address. It becomes even more difficult in the workplace. This is particularly true when there are complaints about an employee’s behavior or performance that suggest a potential mental health issue, but an employee either does not believe they need treatment or refuses to get it.
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24/7 Wall St.
Among the observations in the 557-page Economic Report of the President and Council of Economic Advisors is the extent to which the opioid crisis has damaged the efficiency of the labor economy in the United States. The problem has been cited before, but rarely in terms as pointed as those in the new document. In reference to the problem, the authors of the report wrote: Curbing the opioid crisis is of critical importance for ensuring a stable or growing employment rate among prime-age workers, and curtailing the supply of these substances would reduce addiction rates among Americans. Even with a curtailment of the illicit drug flow into the United States, individuals who are currently out of the labor force because of opioid addiction may struggle to reenter without additional investments in skill upgrading. Still, progress on the opioid addiction front might stem the tide of workers into nonparticipation and, over time, prop up the participation rate.
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Vox
Puerto Rico is having a serious mental health crisis.
The number of people on the island who have reportedly tried to kill themselves since Hurricane Maria hit the island has more than tripled. From November 2017 through January 2018, a crisis hotline run by Puerto Rico's Department of Health received 3,050 calls from people who said they had attempted suicide. That's an astounding 246 percent increase compared to the same time last year.
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Medical Xpress
Underlining the danger of job burnout, a new study of more than 1,000 U.S. workers finds that many employees who are highly engaged in their work are also exhausted and ready to leave their organizations. Whereas lack of engagement is commonly seen as leading to employee turnover due to boredom and disaffection, the study finds that companies, in fact, risk losing some of their most motivated and hard-working employees due to high stress and burnout — a symptom of the "darker side" of workplace engagement.
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The Fix
Relapse has always been a harsh reality of addiction, but as the opioid black market fills with powerful synthetics, relapse on heroin and similar drugs grows increasingly dangerous. Fatal overdoses nearly doubled between 2015 and 2016 — the majority of which are attributed to opioid-based drugs.
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Financial stress can have a serious impact on your employees’ performance, and has been reported to cost businesses an average of $7,000 per employee annually in lost productivity. Cambridge Credit Counseling is a nonprofit agency offering solutions to help your employees eliminate debt and alleviate the stress that debt causes.
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Medical Xpress
We all know people who, seemingly incapable of living without the bright screen of their phone for more than a few minutes, are constantly texting and checking out what friends are up to on social media. These are examples of what many consider to be the antisocial behaviour brought on by smartphone addiction, a phenomenon that has garnered media attention in the past few months and led investors and consumers to demand that tech giants address this problem.
But what if we were looking at things the wrong way? Could smartphone addiction be hyper-social, not anti-social?
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BenefitsPro
Schoolyard bullying has no place in a work environment. A Forbes survey found that 75 percent of employees had been affected in some way by workplace bullying, whether as a victim or as a witness. Workplace bullying can have a number of adverse effects, and it is important that employers do everything they can to create a positive environment for all employees.
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Futurism
As the U.S. opioid epidemic rages on, new treatments to help addicts are needed now more than ever. Several groups are working on developing vaccines against drugs like heroin. But they won't be useful in the fight until they pass human clinical trials.
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