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Employee Assistance Professionals Association
Each year EAPA recognizes and celebrates the achievement of members, individuals and organizations who have distinguished themselves through their work and leadership in the EA profession. At the EAPA 2017 Conference and Expo in Los Angeles, Carl Tisone will receive the Global Employee Assistance Champion Award given to an individual who has demonstrated outstanding initiative and best practices in growing employee assistance around the world. Other award recipients this year are: R. Paul Maiden (Lifetime Achievement Award), Andrew Davies (EAPA Member of the Year), EAP Expert (Exhibitor/Sponsor of the Year), the Connecticut EAPA Chapter (Outstanding Chapter Award), Piraeus Bank Group (EAP Quality Award) and EY Assist (Excellence in Employee Assistance Business Development), among others. The awards will be given during conference keynotes and on Friday, Oct. 6, during the Awards Breakfast and Celebration.
Personnel Today
Research on employee assistance programs suggests they are valued by employees, but employers are not yet gaining all the potential benefits. Dr. Zofia Bajorek and Andrew Kinder explain the findings.
Every employee needs a release valve for the pressures that are mounting from digital working and modern life in general. This is why employee assistance programs — the provision of professional and independent advice — are gaining in significance as a standard part of workplace life. Or are they?
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Employee Benefit News
For decades, employee assistance programs have offered a low-barrier, confidential way for employees to seek help quickly — before a small problem becomes a larger and costlier one. Unfortunately, in the case of opioid abuse and pain-pill addiction, the situation often reaches a crisis in a matter of days or weeks, as opposed to the months or years it typically takes for problems like alcohol abuse to reach a flash point.
While EAPs can play a vital role in helping employers address the problem of opioid abuse, in order to truly be effective, the program must be built and positioned carefully
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The Fix
Federal statutes set forth limited legal protections for people who are suffering from Substance Use Disorder (SUD) by way of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). People cannot be discriminated against by an employer if they have a history of SUD but are no longer using or if they are currently in a treatment program. If the employee is currently using drugs illegally, they are not protected.
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Forbes
Insurance coverage of mental health services via telehealth technology is surging to unprecedented levels amid an opioid abuse epidemic and increased access to behavioral healthcare generally, a new report and telemedicine companies say. The National Business Group on Health said 56 percent of employers in 2018 plan to offer telehealth for behavioral health services as a covered benefit.
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Sentinel & Enterprise
Of all the patient encounters she's had in her 15-year nursing career, few compare with one Miko Nakagawa had in January.
One of the patients she was treating in the emergency department of HealthAlliance Hospital was becoming increasingly aggressive and hostile toward her. When Nakagawa tried to calm the patient down, he pushed her over a nearby stretcher, tearing her rotator cuff. The encounter put Nakagawa out of work for five months, giving her time to heal and undergo surgery on her shoulder. It also gave her time to press charges against the patient who attacked her and contemplate the risks hospital staff face in their work environment daily.
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Bloomberg BNA
The "toxic" managers or employees ruining morale at some workplaces are symptoms of deep-seated problems organizations need to address, consultants say.
"Number one, it trickles down," Jody Foster, a professor of psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, told Bloomberg BNA Aug. 8. "That's true in teams as much as in whole organizations — if you have a toxic or destructive leader, he or she tends to hire like-minded people, and before you know it, you have a toxic workplace."
In a toxic workplace, "harassment, bullying, gossip, rumor mongering, overt or covert discrimination" can flourish, workplace psychologist Ilona Jerabek told Bloomberg BNA Aug. 8. Subtler problems such as "perceived lack of fairness from a manager" can take their toll too, she said.
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Metro
Now, new research suggests that it's men who are more mentally affected by their work, with data from Mind revealing that one in three men attribute poor mental health to their job, versus one in five women who say the same.
Mind surveyed 15,000 employees from around the U.K. to gather their stats, and found that 32 percent of men blame their work for their mental health issues, while women say their jobs and problems outside of work are equal contributing factors.
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BedTimes
Employers are facing a greater risk than ever from a growing culture of impairment that shows no signs of tapering off any time soon.
"We are seeing a real uptick in the number of employees testing positive for drug abuse," says Nancy N. Delogu, shareholder in the Washington, D.C., office of Littler Mendelson, the nation's largest law firm defending employers in labor disputes. The portion of U.S. employees testing positive for marijuana, amphetamines and heroin has increased over the past three years to a 10-year high, according to the 2016 annual report from Quest Diagnostics, a Madison, New Jersey-based company that tracks such matters. Just less than 4 percent of employees now fail their urine drug tests.
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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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CBS News
The American workplace is grueling, stressful and surprisingly hostile.
So concludes an in-depth study of 3,066 U.S. workers by Rand Corp., Harvard Medical School and the University of California, Los Angeles. The American Working Conditions Survey found "the American workplace is very physically and emotionally taxing, both for workers themselves and their families."
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Psych Central
Emerging research out of the University of Illinois suggests that some mothers' and fathers' psychological well-being may suffer when their work and family identities — and the amount of financial support they provide — conflict with conventional gender roles.
Researchers found that when women's paychecks increased to compose the majority of their families' income, these women reported more symptoms of depression.
However, the investigators found the opposite effect in men: Dads' psychological well-being improved over time when they became the primary wage-earners for their families.
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Inc.
Do you work in a toxic workplace? I'll share what that looks like in a minute. But if you do, there comes a time when we all need to evaluate our work environment and the people we work with to determine if it's hurting our career path or, much worse, our health and well-being.
If you decide to take the higher road and stick around, safeguarding against a toxic workplace falls squarely on the shoulders of every employee. Whatever your level or function, everyone needs to be watching out for one another by weeding out the few bad apples that may be taking morale down.
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