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Employee Assistance Professionals
EA Industry Spotlight is a round up of bit-sized articles covering our field. This August, we include news of a study reiterating the importance of SBIRT, the emerging business model for behavioral healthcare, and a new opportunity for EAPs in the area of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia. And there's more.
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U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
The U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, issued a letter asking millions of U.S. medical practitioners to 1. Educate themselves to treat pain safely and effectively, 2. Screen patients for opioid use disorder and provide/connect their patients with evidence-based treatment and 3. Help to shape public opinion about addiction by talking about and treating addiction as a chronic illness (not a moral failing). In addition, professionals are asked to pledge to take these three steps. Learn more.
| EAPA opens election period for 2016 — 2018 Board of Directors
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Employee Assistance Professionals Association
The EAPA Nominations Committee has put together a slate of officers and directors to comprise the 2016-2018 EAPA Board of Directors, and members will vote to ratify those selections. The slate consists of candidates for President Elect, Secretary-Treasurer, 3 At Large Directors (residing outside of the U.S.) and 4 At Large Directors (residing within the U.S.) All current EAPA voting-eligible members received an email on Aug. 25 that provided them with login credentials and a link to the voting website. Please watch for that email and safeguard your login credential until after you have submitted your vote. If you did not receive this email, or have questions, please contact elections@eapassn.org or EAPA staff member Chris Drake (findir@eapassn.org) for assistance. Voting will close at the end of the day on Friday, Sept. 23.
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Research has shown that poor financial behaviors - and financial stress - can significantly impact an employee’s performance at work. Learn how an AFC© professional can help reduce financial stress by providing employees with personalized education and guidance to help them build a firm financial foundation to effectively achieve their goals.
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Richmond Times-Dispatch
Employers frequently struggle to know how best to accommodate mental disabilities, especially when those same disabilities cause disruption in the workplace.
Last month, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals determined that the employer is not required to accommodate an employee whose disabilities result in disruption to the workplace, and upheld her termination.
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Employee Assistance Professionals Association
The John J. "Jack" Hennessy Scholarship Fund is established in memory of and in tribute to former EAPA President and EACC Chair Jack Hennessy, in recognition of his tireless efforts to advance the professional growth of both labor affiliated and non-labor affiliated employee assistance professionals. The Fund will award two scholarships, one to a labor affiliated member, and one to a non-labor affiliated member, to cover registration costs to attend the 2016 World EAP Conference in Chicago. The deadline for scholarship applications is 5 p.m. EDT, Sept. 23. For more information and to apply, click here.
Inforum
Persons engaged in agriculture (farmers, ranchers, farm laborers, fishers and lumber harvesters) have the highest suicide rate among 30 national Standard Occupational Classification groups, at 84.5 per 100,000 persons in 17 states that were studied. A national program called the Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network could help distressed farmers and their families and save lives if it were available.
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CommonHealth
When Brigham and Women's Hospital researcher Douglas Mata began searching for research on depression in residency a few years ago, he was surprised to find that no comprehensive studies existed.
So he set out to do one himself.
"We found about 54 studies that we extracted data from and combined together, and then we were able to show that, overall, the prevalence of depression or depressive symptoms is about 29 percent among residents, which is a huge number," he said. In fact, figures from the National Institutes of Health show it’s more than four times higher than the percentage of the general American population that has depression.
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Human Resource Executive Online
As this divisive election season heats up, employers are reminded to promptly stop workers from making unwelcome comments about co-workers' national origin, or else risk the wrath of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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HR Morning
It's no secret — most managers dread initiating difficult conversations with their employees. And no conversation is more difficult to start than when a manager suspects an employee has a drug or alcohol problem.
You're well aware of the effects of employee substance abuse. The consequences run from performance issues to behavior problems to absenteeism.
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