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Employee Assistance Professionals Association/Chestnut Global Partners
The first Workplace Outcome Suite (WOS) Annual Report 2016 has been released. WOS, an EAPA-endorsed Tool, is demonstrating the effectiveness of EAPs in quantifiable business terms. Currently, more than 500 EAP firms utilize the WOS. A recent evaluation that included roughly 8,100 EAP users from 20 different EAP providers revealed gains in workplace effectiveness after using EAP services measured by the Workplace Outcome Suite. Find out more about the WOS. Read the report.
Castlight Health
The use and abuse of prescription opioids continues to be a challenging and costly crisis for the U.S. Despite the breadth and seriousness of this crisis, America's employers lack a true understanding of how opioid abuse impacts employees in the workforce and their families. Castlight Health released research on prescription opioid abuse in the workforce to provide employers with a more accurate picture of the extent and depth of this ongoing crisis. Among other insights, they found that nearly one out of every three opioid prescriptions is being abused and opioid abusers cost employers nearly twice as much in medical expenses on average annually as non-abusers. Read the report.
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American Psychological Association
The American Psychological Association released its annual "Work and Well-Being Survey." The report highlighted the fact that despite the prevalence of workplace wellness efforts, only one-third of American workers say they regularly participate in the health promotion programs provided by their employer. Additionally, less than half of working Americans say the climate in their organization supports employee well-being, and 1 in 3 reports being chronically stressed on the job. The APA survey suggested a key part of the solution is senior leadership support.
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Epstein Becker Green
A groundbreaking, comprehensive survey on the laws, regulations, and regulatory policies impacting telemental health in all 50 states and the District of Columbia was recently released. The "50-State Survey of Telemental/Telebehavioral Health (2016)" details the rapid growth of telemental health (mental health care delivered via interactive audio or video, computer programs, or mobile applications) and the increasingly complex legal issues associated with this trend. Download the survey.
Milliman Actuary
The average American employer (in 2016) pays over $14,700 for healthcare costs per employee and family. To put this in an "EAP" context — if we assume a reasonably robust program goes for about $25.00 per-employee-per year — then we are a fraction of 1 percent of the average annual employer expense (0.17 percent to be exact). So an EA provider that achieves a 5 percent plus utilization and measures their outcomes has a very strong value proposition — if we define value as "cost incurred relative to outcomes achieved." EAP could be the strongest but most unappreciated service with a "transparent" value proposition in the health benefits portfolio.
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The Independent
Psychopaths in the workplace are not as disruptive as might be expected, a study suggests. Researchers from the University of Bonn found some people with psychopathic traits are seen by co-workers as quite helpful and co-operative.
The prerequisite of this discovery is that the person in question have social skills such as an ability of making others feel good about themselves.
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National Institutes of Health
"The Marijuana and Cannabinoids: A Neuroscience Research Summit," convened by NIH in March 2016, has summarized its proceedings and made them available to mental health professionals and other interested parties. The Summit presented evidence-based information on the neurological and psychiatric effects of marijuana, other cannabinoids, and the endocannabinoid system. Presenters also suggested scientific areas for future research.
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Motherboard
To say that cures are rarely discussed within the context of mental illness would be an understatement. The reality is much closer to never and this becomes even more true as the mental illness in question becomes more severe. A very large portion of common schizophrenic symptoms, known as negative symptoms, aren't even treatable — successfully nuking the vast hydra that is schizophrenia in any curative sense is hard to fathom.
A group of researchers led by the Lawson Health Research Institute's Lena Palaniyappan published a study recently in Psychology Medicine offering new evidence that the brain is capable of reorganizing itself in ways that may lead to a reversal of the effects of schizophrenia: hinting at a cure, that is.
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The National Law Review
Employers are not exempt from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's reporting rule for on-the-job injuries linked to alcohol intoxication even though the injured employee's consumption of alcoholic beverages took place off the job. In general, OSHA mandates employers to record any workplace injury that requires treatment beyond first aid.
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Business.com
Some interesting statistics have been highlighted recently during Mental Health Awareness Week in the U.K. and U.S.
Among them is the staggering finding that one in four people will experience a mental health problem every year.
One element which undoubtedly plays a significant role in this is workplace stress. And because job competition and pressure to succeed is inextricably ingrained in our culture of work, workplace stress can worryingly seem like the norm for most.
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