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Employee Assistance Professionals
The "Spotlight on Employee Assistance" is a roundup of bit-sized news items relevant to EA. This August, we include news about the emergence of behavioral health care tourism and the results of a major study on CBD usage. The EA Professional Spotlight features Claire Sutton, M.A., RCC, CEAP., president of Claire Sutton Consulting Inc. in Canada. And there's more.
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CNBC
For the first time, a study on internet addiction is being funded by The National Institutes of Health, a signal that the problems stemming from excessive internet use may finally be getting the serious attention it deserves from the U.S. mental health community.
The two-year study kicks off this week and is being conducted at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.
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Above the Law
The most common reason lawyers are disbarred is for stealing client funds, usually by mismanaging the law firm's trust account. During the disciplinary proceedings, the accused attorney will usually beg for mercy. He will claim that his actions were to due to lack of organization, sudden financial problems and mental health issues.
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Finfeed
You may have noticed the many ways in which the medicinal cannabis space and the financial world are increasingly intersecting. Over the last few years, the burgeoning medical marijuana sector has received enormous attention — largely in parallel with a rapidly shifting legislative climate.
The sector has become highly lucrative, with a global market poised to reach a value of $55.8 billion by 2025. With multiple share markets, including the ASX, abuzz with an ever-growing crop of so-called "pot stocks," the subject has become a kind of permanent topic du jour in the investment space.
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HRDive
Mental illness has long carried a stigma at work but that viewpoint is changing.
Employers are finding ways to help workers cope not only with stress and burnout, but also depression. Employee wellness programs have expanded to include emotional well-being components, which target all of those issues. The focus on behavioral health as part of workers' overall health has generated significant ROI for employers.
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New York Magazine
There are layers to unhealthy drinking. A binge, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is anything that brings a person’s blood-alcohol level to 0.08 or higher, typically five drinks for men or four for women over the course of a couple of hours. High-risk drinking, meanwhile, is consuming binge-level amounts of alcohol at least once a week. Alcohol Use Disorder, more commonly referred to as alcohol abuse or dependence, is diagnosed according to criteria outlined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, including experiencing withdrawal symptoms and drinking interfering with work or family.
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Thomsons Online Benefits
There can be no question about it; employee wellness needs a kick-start in the right direction. Work-related stress, anxiety and depression now account for over 10 million working days lost each year, while 40 percent of NHS resources are spent on preventable diseases. Combine this with an increasing array of financial pressures, the demands of an "always-on," but sedentary, lifestyle and you have a recipe for a high-stress, high-cholesterol workforce.
Taking steps to improve employee wellness — financial, physical and mental — can bring about real, positive change for businesses.
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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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Science Daily
The Finnish company Goodwiller has launched a rapid alcohol test it has developed in collaboration with VTT that measures the blood alcohol content from saliva. A disposable test fits easily into a small wallet and reveals the user's fitness to drive within a couple of minutes.
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Business Matters
Experts at LondonOffices.com claim there is a growing trend for the once sober out of office auto responder to be loaded up with boasts about how much fun the worker is having while they are away from the office.
Brags include details of the person’s holidays, their access to glamorous sporting events and landmark life events such as weddings and new babies – some even attached photographs.
Many will mask their boasting in self-deprecation – turning it into a ‘humble brag’ while others prefer to deflect the boastful nature of the content with humour.
But despite the jokes out of office messages are increasingly being used to communicate to contacts how wonderful the worker’s life is – with many sending out thousands of emails including personal details to clients and work associates with whom they have a purely professional relationship.
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Corprorate Wellness Magazine
It's no secret that healthier, more engaged employees are more effective at work than their peers. A recent Gallup research survey found that already-engaged employees experience even higher performance outcomes when physical wellness programming is added to the mix.
The logical question we should all be asking is: how can leaders empower their employees to be the best versions of themselves?
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Science Daily
After an 11-minute training session and encouragement to continue practicing mindfulness — which involves focusing on what's happening in the present moment — heavy drinkers drank less over the next week than people who were taught relaxation techniques, according to the study published in the International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology.
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