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Employee Assistance Professionals Association
Each year, EAPA's annual awards program recognizes and celebrates the achievement of individuals and organizations who have distinguished themselves through their contributions to the EA profession and EAPA. Selection of award recipients is the responsibility of the EAPA Awards Committee. The 2018 EAPA Awards will be presented at the EAPA 2018 Conference and EXPO in Minneapolis, MN. LEARN MORE.
Anchorage Daily News
If you think the national division over guns hasn't hit your workplace, you haven't been listening. Not only are the employees who advocate for increased gun control, including a ban on assault-style rifles like the AR-15, engaged in active argument with those who argue for fewer restrictions on gun owners' ability to carry concealed firearms, but some of your employees may be packing.
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Medical News Today
Recently, there has been one major health issue dominating the mainstream media: antidepressants. More specifically, do they actually work? The global debate on this issue was kick-started earlier this year, when British author Johann Hari published his book, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression — and the Unexpected Solutions. Hari used antidepressants for 13 years, starting when he was a teenager, and the new book is his attempt to answer some of the questions that had plagued him for years.
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Hypepotamus
From work to money to politics, nearly two-thirds of Americans are stressed. And unmanaged, stress can lead to more severe issues like depression or burnout. For both executives and employees alike, knowing how to build positive workplace environments can make a measurable difference. In today’s world where employee retention is the name of the game, enter HR.
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Insurance Journal
For workplace safety professionals, March 12 is a big date. On that date, the world will learn of a new global standard for safer workplaces that has been in development for five years and involved input from more than 75 countries across six continents.
The voluntary consensus standard — known as — ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems — is meant to provide a framework that companies can use to increase employee safety, reduce workplace risks and improve business outcomes worldwide.
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Psych Central
A research review discovers high-altitude areas have increased rates of suicide and depression. In the United States, intermountain states were found to have the highest suicide rate with investigators positing that blood oxygen levels due to low atmospheric pressure may play a factor.
The research appears in the Harvard Review of Psychiatry.
Brent Michael Kious, M.D., Ph.D., from the University of Utah, and colleagues explain that additional research may reveal interventions to reduce the effects of low blood oxygen on mood and suicidal thoughts.
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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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Employee Benefit Adviser
The opioid epidemic has been at the forefront of national news as the number of deaths continue to increase each year — rising threefold from 1999 to more than 63,000 in 2016. Benefit advisers and others in healthcare have taken notice. But it’s important to keep in mind that the addiction crisis is much broader than opioids. Tobacco and alcohol use remain a huge problem that cannot be understated — with alcohol impacting one in eight working adults and tobacco closer to one in five.
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Corporate Wellness
A human being is only as healthy as his or her mind is, and mental illness is a rather silent, slowly developing health problem that significantly reduces employee health and productivity. Employers are gradually beginning to see how vital managing employee mental health in the workplace is.
Mental illness is one of the top causes of productivity loss in the workplace. Mental illness costs the U.S. economy over $51 billion in absenteeism from work and $26 billion in direct cost of treatment.
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Psych Central
New Canadian research using mice shows that stress transmitted from others can change the brain in the same way as real stress does. The study also shows that the effects of stress on the brain are reversed in female mice — but not males — following a social interaction.
Jaideep Bains, Ph.D., and his team at the University of Calgary studied the effects of stress in pairs of male or female mice. They removed one mouse from each pair and exposed it to a mild stress before returning it to its partner.
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