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Employee Assistance Professionals
EA Industry Spotlight is a roundup of bit-sized articles covering our field. This March, we review a tool designed to help us understand the American Health Care Act, look at a new study that reviews the ethics of recommending digital technology for patients with mental illness, as well as cite a survey of employers and employees across Canada that found that 49 percent of respondents have either taken time off work or witnessed other employees taking time off following changes in the workplace. The EA Professional Spotlight focuses on EAPA Director at Large Daniel Boissonneault. And there's more.
Employee Assistance Professionals Association
EAPA has agreed to submit its published journals from 1975–2010 to the global digital Employee Assistance Archive hosted by the University of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Social Work. Since its inception in 2013, over 250 researchers from around the world have submitted EA related articles and other important works to the Archive providing a valuable resource to researchers and practitioners.
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The National Safety Council
The National Safety Council and national nonprofit Shatterproof have collaborated with an independent research institution, NORC at the University of Chicago to design "The Real Cost of Substance Use to Employers" tool, an authoritative, easy-to-use tool providing business leaders with specific information about the cost of substance use (including prescription drug abuse and misuse, alcohol abuse and misuse, opioid and heroin addiction as well as abuse of other illicit drugs and marijuana) in their workplace based on size of employee base, industry and state. To try it out here. For more information about the data sources and methodology for the cost calculator, click here.
Business World Online
According to philosopher Albert Camus, "without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies." One's workplace may be a sanctuary, but it can also serve as a place of intense pressure and stress. It is not difficult to imagine that the trials and tribulations an individual goes through at work may affect his or her peace of mind, sometimes for a prolonged period of time. There may even come a point when the stress of work can prove too burdensome, creating psychological disorders that affect even the individual's social life and relationships with others.
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Psychology Today
If we take the idea that you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink to the business arena, how do companies help their leaders improve their performance or behavior, through coaching, when they don't think they need it?
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Guru Focus
A majority of American employers believe that prescription drug misuse in workplaces is a justifiable reason to terminate an employee, according to a survey by the National Safety Council.
The survey interviewed 501 companies across a geographically representative sample of U.S. employers with 50 or more employees. It found that a big 70 percent of employers admit feeling the direct impact of prescription drug abuses, and 71 percent of those polled consider prescription drug abuse a disease that needs to be treated.
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Employee Benefit Adviser
Virtual healthcare is moving beyond checking in with a doctor or nurse practitioner to diagnose fevers, aches and rashes.
Employees of small businesses can now access virtual mental health professionals for issues such as their depression, addiction and stress from divorce and money woes without leaving their homes or missing time at work.
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HRM Canada
After a slew of studies showed pharmacogenetics to be the solution that could help ease the mental health crisis that is badly affecting so many Canadians, Personalized Prescribing Inc. developed a one-year pilot program that helps organizations determine the return on investment for a long-term pharmacogenetics plan. As well as introducing pharmacogenetics to the workplace, the pilot (named P3) is also expected to also help determine the overall mental health condition of the organization.
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SHRM
Implementing drug-free policies can be tricky. As the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently made clear, inquiries into the drug-free status of employees can cross the line of permissible conduct.
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HRE Daily
Is social media ruining our lives? I guess ComPsych would say so — gone unchecked, that is.
That's why the Chicago-based employee-assistance-program-services provider is offering a new training course to its more than 33,000 organizations covering more than 89 million people worldwide focused on tackling the problem.
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