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Partnership for Workplace Mental Health
American Express is providing "the next generation of health care for its employees" by looking at physical health and emotional health holistically, connecting the pieces across a wide spectrum of services and garnering visible support from senior leaders and line managers. Originally, the company offered a telephone-only EAP that had a utilization rate in line with the national average of approximately 4 percent. By adding onsite professionals for free, face-to-face counseling sessions in regional wellness centers in the United States, and rebranding the EAP as part of the "Healthy Living" program, covering lifestyle, safety and disease management, utilization more than doubled.
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Waters Edge Recovery, a Joint Commission accredited, dual-diagnosis drug and alcohol treatment center located on the banks of the St. Lucie River in Stuart Florida. The facility’s waterfront location helps create a calm and restorative environment for reflection and recovery. Specializing in continuous communication, family support and complete EAP resources.
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Psychology Today
For those who care about suicide prevention, social media has become an even more important tool for reaching people at risk. Instagram, the app that allows us to chronicle life through photo sharing, has partnered with mental health professionals and advocates to design a response to posts that could be about suicide, self-harm, or eating disorders.
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UCLA via Medical Xpress
A study by researchers at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA has found a new noninvasive way to predict which individuals will respond favorably to the most commonly used medications to treat depression — using brain wave recordings. UCLA researchers report that a simple biomarker — a pair of brain-wave recordings, or electroencephalograms, that can be performed in a doctor's office in about 10 minutes — can predict whether the person will enter remission after just one week of treatment.
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The New York Times
The movement to legalize marijuana, the country's most popular illicit drug, will take a giant leap on Election Day if California and four other states vote to allow recreational cannabis, as polls suggest they may. The map of where pot is legal could include the entire West Coast and a block of states reaching from the Pacific to Colorado, raising a stronger challenge to the federal government's ban on the drug.
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Fast Company
"How does one just go back to a normal routine when the most abnormal experience just occurred? Well, probably clumsily," says Gina Moffa, a private-practice psychotherapist and Clinical Director of the Addiction Institute of New York at Mt. Sinai Hospital. Asking for mental health days or work-from-home opportunities can provide a safe environment while easing back into your daily tasks. Having emotions at work doesn't make workers weak. It makes them human.
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Office Space
The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that over $300 billion is lost yearly due to employee stress alone. But this economic impact doesn't account for all the other health issues that can arise for employees and affect their workplace productivity. Five technologies can help develop a strong sense of employee well-being in an office.
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The Conversation
The annual cost of burnout to the global economy has been estimated to be £255 billion. Such costs have led to the World Health Organization predicting a global pandemic within a decade.
Organizations have focused on burnout to protect their profits, placing blame for lowered performance on individual employees, rather than making adequate adjustments to safeguard against stress.
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The Globe and Mail
Benefits experts say there is a growing trend for firms to become more millennial-friendly, in part to attract and retain younger employees. That includes expanding employee assistance plans, creating more holistic benefits around fitness, providing advice to reduce stress around debt and adding digital mental-health services — in part to attract and retain millennials.
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Bloomberg Big Law
A recently released survey of law firm leaders conducted by legal industry consultants Patrick McKenna and David Parnell found that 93 percent of respondents of 124 law firms admitted that instances of bullying have occurred at their firms. It is the duty of all law firm leaders to address this cancer — which affects not only the particular firm but also the legal profession as a whole — head on.
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Reuters
A lobbying group representing older Americans sued the Obama administration claiming regulations for programs designed to rein in employee health care costs will subject workers to invasions of their medical privacy. Rules released in May by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will force workers to choose between hefty financial penalties or revealing sensitive health information to employers, AARP, formerly the American Association of Retired Persons, said in a lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington.
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