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Employee Assistance Professionals Association
Gregory DeLapp has been selected by the EAPA Board of Directors to become EAPA's next CEO, effective Jan. 1, 2016. An EA professional for more than 30 years, Greg has a long history of service to EAPA, including serving as EAPA's president from 1998-2000. "I am honored and humbled by the opportunity to help steer the EA profession into the future," he noted. "I look forward to exploring every avenue possible to further position educational and developmental opportunities for EAPA members to be prepared and competitive in the marketplace." Greg's selection as CEO was recommended unanimously by EAPA's Search Committee, composed of six representatives from the Board, three EAPA staff and one EAPA member at large, after a thorough global search process. His appointment was approved by the full EAPA Board at its October meeting. Read more about Greg's background.
Employee Assistance Professionals Association
EAPA has announced its official support and endorsement of the Workplace Outcome Suite (WOS) as an EAP best practice for measuring and evaluating work-related outcomes of EA services. The WOS is a free, psychometrically valid and reliable, and easy to administer tool developed by Chestnut Global Partners (CGP) Division of Commercial Science. Under the terms of an agreement between EAPA and CGP, an annual industrywide aggregate report, including pre and post WOS data across EAP settings, will be available as a member benefit exclusively to all EAPA members, beginning in January.
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Laboratory Equipment
High job demands, stress and job insecurity are among the main reasons why people go to work when they are ill, according to new research by an academic at the University of East Anglia.
The study aims to improve understanding of the key causes of employees going to work when sick, known as presenteeism, and to help make managers more aware of the existence of the growing phenomenon, what triggers the behavior and what can be done to improve employees' health and productivity.
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The New York Times
There has been an alarming and steady increase in the mortality rate of middle-aged white Americans since 1999, according to a study published recently. This increase — half a percent annually — contrasts starkly with decreasing death rates in all other age and ethnic groups and with middle-aged people in other developed countries.
So what is killing middle-aged white Americans? Much of the excess death is attributable to suicide and drug and alcohol poisonings. Opioid painkillers like OxyContin prescribed by physicians contribute significantly to these drug overdoses.
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Employee Assistance Professionals Association
EAPA chapter and branch leaders are invited and encouraged to participate in EAPA's third online chapter/branch leader "town hall" meeting, 12-1 p.m. EST, on Thursday, Nov. 19. The purpose of the meeting is to provide a forum for current and potential leaders to share and hear ideas, best practices, concerns, and challenges regarding how to build, maintain, and nurture thriving chapters and branches.
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HR.BLR
A college football coach was in the news recently when he was fired from his job after he reportedly came to a team meeting intoxicated. Employers often face difficult decisions when an employee who is, or has been, a great worker appears to be under the influence of alcohol or drugs while at work.
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The New York Times
A new study in the journal Emotion of how people manage stress while waiting for high-stakes results is a validation of sorts for those who embrace their anxiety. During the waiting period, researchers found, those who tried coping techniques failed miserably at suppressing distress. And when the news arrived, the worriers were more elated than their relaxed peers, if it was good; if bad, the worriers were better prepared.
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Chicago Tribune
Courts are forcing employers to pay for detox treatment as well as death benefits to families of injured employees whose addiction and death resulted from opioids prescribed for work injuries — even when an employee took more than the prescribed dose or mixed the pills with alcohol.
That's the conclusion of a new paper from the National Safety Council.
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Psych Central
New research finds that African-American youth whose anxiety levels are elevated by everyday struggles will overproduce the stress hormone cortisol into adulthood. Researchers from the University of Michigan School of Public Health and Medical School found that anxiety among females and alcohol use among males in their teens predict their cortisol output seven years later.
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The New York Times
Rural adolescents commit suicide at roughly twice the rate of their urban peers, according to a study published in the May issue of the journal JAMA Pediatrics. Although imbalances between city and country have long persisted, "we weren't expecting that the disparities would be increasing over time," said the study's lead author, Cynthia Fontanella, a psychologist at Ohio State University.
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Modern Readers
As they say in "Game of Thrones," winter is coming. For kids, it's time to build snowmen, play in the snow, and enjoy time away from school. But for many adults, winter is the gloomiest time of the year, not because of the cold weather per se, but because of a condition called seasonal affective disorder, also known by its apt acronym SAD. This condition affects over 14 million Americans, including 1.5 percent of the population in sunnier Southern states like Florida, but not surprisingly, close to 10 percent in the frigid north.
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Safety+Health
The California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board has proposed a new regulation that aims to protect health care industry employees from workplace violence.
A year ago, state legislation directed the board to adopt standards requiring health care industry employers to implement workplace violence prevention plans as part of an Injury and Illness Prevention Plan. Specifically, employers' plans would have to include a means to identify risk factors, procedures to correct workplace violence hazards, and procedures for post-incident response and investigation. Employees would have to be involved in the development, implementation and review of the plan.
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