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Employee Assistance Professionals
The “Spotlight on Employee Assistance” is a roundup of bit-sized news items relevant to EA. This month, we include news about a resource for EAP clients denied access to treatment, how to explain SAD, as well as a link to the ever popular EAP Conference slide show. The Professional Spotlight features EAPA’s Member Services Administrator, Grace Barnhill. And there’s more.
Harvard Business Review
The U.S. faces a mental health epidemic. Nearly one in five American adults suffers from a form of mental illness. Suicide rates are at an all-time high, 115 people die daily from opioid abuse, and one in eight Americans over 12 years’ old take an antidepressant every day. The economic burden of depression alone is estimated to be at least $210 billion annually, with more than half of that cost coming from increased absenteeism and reduced productivity in the workplace.
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Smart Business
A 2013 study by the Integrated Benefits Institute reported that the prevalence of depression among workers is close to 20 percent and that more than 60 percent of these depressed employees go untreated. At the same time, 97 percent of employees who file a leave claim for depression also report other comorbid conditions.
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Forbes
Approximately 43.8 million adults in the U.S. experience mental illness of some form in any given year. A significant number of those are related to depression, anxiety or post-traumatic stress. We also know that individuals living with mental illness face increased risk of having chronic medical conditions and die earlier than peers — largely due to treatable medical conditions. In fact, mood disorders like depression are the third most common cause of hospitalization in the U.S. for both youth and adults, adding billions to the costs of care each year.
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Human Resource Executive
Connie Rice came out to her parents when she was in seventh grade.
That was decades ago, when the term “transgender” wasn’t in most people’s lexicons. Her admission “didn’t go anywhere,” she says, and Rice buried her authentic self until a few years ago, after she was diagnosed with cancer at age 50. “I just couldn’t hold back any longer,” she says. She opened up to loved ones and started therapy and hormone treatments. A year into the process, she approached the local HR representative at her employer, a large technology company. The company’s nondiscrimination policy was transgender-inclusive, but it offered no trans-sensitivity training for her colleagues — which Rice took the lead on developing.
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STAT
The number of fatal drug overdoses nationwide has fallen for six consecutive months, fueling hopes that the downturn marks not just a reprieve but a long-lasting shift in the tide of the addiction crisis. Annual U.S. drug overdoses have been tracking upward for nearly four decades, and the rate of growth increased sharply in the last few years with the onset of the opioid epidemic.
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The New York Times
A generation ago, depression was viewed as an unwanted guest: a gloomy presence that might appear in the wake of a loss or a grave disappointment and was slow to find the door. The people it haunted could acknowledge the poor company — I’ve been a little depressed since my father died — without worrying that they had become chronically ill. Today, the condition has been recast in the medical literature as a darker, more permanent figure, a monster in the basement poised to overtake the psyche.
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Occupaional Health & Safety
Employers should have a written emergency action plan — OSHA's 1910.38 standard requires it of employers with more than 10 workers — and should train their workers on that plan, a presenter told his audience during an Oct. 24 technical session at the National Safety Council's Congress & Expo here. Don Moseman, a master instructor for the North Dakota Safety Council, explained how to recognize someone who may be on the brink of a violent episode, such as a workplace shooting, and some of the policies and practices employers should use.
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