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Employee Assistance Professionals
The monthly “Spotlight on Employee Assistance” is a roundup of bit-sized news items relevant to EA.
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Harvard Business Review
You’d think that the biggest cultural challenge when going abroad for an assignment would be acclimating to the foreign culture you’re moving to. You can generally anticipate and prepare for most challenges that tend to come with some degree of support and resources, whether through your company or a local expat community. What you likely haven’t prepared for — and what can sometimes be even more challenging — is the cultural adjustment of moving home.
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Psychology Today
When the mind senses a potentially harmful situation, it tells the body to prepare by increasing its heart rate, breathing, and blood pressure. This response helped earlier humans outrun or fight predators and enemies. Today’s stressful situations, more likely a challenging interaction at work or a misbehaving child, result in the same physical reactions even though we are less likely to experience physical danger.
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British Psychological Society via Medical XPress
Feelings of shame may make the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) more severe in current and former members of the Armed Services.
That is the conclusion of research published in the British Journal of Clinical Psychology by a team led by Dr Katherine C. Cunningham from the Department of Veterans Affairs Mid-Atlantic Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center, Durham, North Carolina.
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HR Morning
Here’s a tricky scenario for any HR pro: You have reason to believe that an employee, an employee who has suddenly started showing increasingly erratic behavior, is actually becoming a threat to herself or her co-workers. What can you do?
Can you require that worker to undergo an independent medical exam before returning to work?
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Inc.
In times of low unemployment, companies become desperate to hire enough people. They often need to speed up their hiring decisions, or risk losing a good candidate. However, this also leads to hiring mistakes. There's nothing more costly than an employee who kills productivity and hurts your corporate culture. One of the worst offenders? Employees who turn out to be sociopaths.
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Psychology Today
Writes Barb Cohen: "College professors do not call to check in with parents. I had been warned about this aspect of transition repeatedly and anticipated my impending ignorance with both dread and enthusiasm. When my autistic daughter, Sam, enrolled in a college class this fall, I understood the rules. So when her professor called me, I knew I would not enjoy the conversation."
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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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University of California, San Francisco via Medical XPress
7 out of 10 trainee surgeons surveyed experienced burnout driven by emotional exhaustion, "depersonalization" and doubts about their effectiveness at work, impacting their own performance and potentially patients' health, according to a study by UC San Francisco.
Burnout among trainee surgeons greatly increases the risk of high anxiety, depression and thoughts of suicide, said researchers of the study, published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons on Oct. 26, 2017.
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Reuters
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration plans to encourage opioid addicts to use less harmful opioid drugs such as methadone and buprenorphine, a radical shift in policy that could agitate those in the addiction field who believe abstinence is the only effective treatment.
Speaking before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce recently, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb outlined a proposal under which every addict who suffers a non-fatal overdose would be treated with an opioid substitute, for long periods if necessary, or even for life.
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Medical News Today
Major depressive disorder is a serious, debilitating mental illness. In the United States, it affects more than 16.1 million people over the age of 18. Although its prevalence is high, it is still a difficult condition to treat.
Treatments include medications such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and talking therapies, such as cognitive therapy. No case of depression is the same, and often, individuals receive a range of treatments across their lifetime.
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