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SHRM
They are among the most valuable but oft-overlooked programs offered by organizations: employee assistance programs. Counseling services provided by EAPs help employees deal with everyday or extreme challenges that can impact workplace productivity and performance, improving employee well-being in the process.
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Employee Benefit News
To broaden the horizons of wellness, employers have driven the need to focus plans not only on the physical and nutritional aspects, but also to expand into mental soundness and financial stability.
Craig Schmidt, senior wellness consultant at EPIC, has seen a strong focus around three main areas: mindfulness, stress and financial wellness.
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The Associated Press
More than 50,000 Americans died from drug overdoses last year, the most ever.
The disastrous tally has been pushed to new heights by soaring abuse of heroin and prescription painkillers, a class of drugs known as opioids.
Heroin deaths rose 23 percent in one year, to 12,989, slightly higher than the number of gun homicides, according to government data released recently.
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SHP Online
Most people reading this article probably already suspect bully-free workplaces have a higher than average chance of fostering safer, more innovative and productive environments. Researchers have found that people working in safe, respectful environments are more empowered to report potential issues or faults, as they know they are valued. Safer workplaces enhance engagement given there’s less danger of being vilified for taking the occasional rational risk. Risks and mistakes enable learning, transformative thinking and innovation. Yet, one of the most fraught questions I often hear is, "How in the world do generally well-meaning private or public workplaces create institutionalise bullying?"
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Management Today
Unfortunately, mental health (generally preferred over "mental illness") remains surrounded in cliché. It makes it difficult to write about from a distance, let alone discuss on a personal level with colleagues or employers.
The reality though is that many people find themselves having to decide whether to do just that. Mental health problems vary widely in terms of both conditions and individuals’ experiences of them, but one thing they all have in common is that you can’t just leave them at home when you come to work in the morning.
Work can trigger (or in some cases help with) mental health problems, which in turn can affect performance. "Coming out" about it is therefore no easy decision.
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Women's Agenda
Inequality is a workplace hazard and, like RSI and bad backs, gendered violence can be prevented. The CEO of Our Watch, Mary Barry, explains how workplaces can help create a future that's free of violence against women.
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ScienceDaily
Men and women are almost at an equal risk of being bullied in the workplace, but whereas bullying often causes women to go on prolonged sick leave or use antidepressants, men often choose to leave the labor market altogether for a period of time.
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Columbia Missourian
It took Dr. Bart Andrews 16 years to admit to himself and others that he was a suicide attempt survivor.
It happened in 1998, right after he'd finished a graduate school internship and before he'd begun work at Behavioral Health Response, which provides confidential telephone counseling to people in mental health crises and is based in St. Louis.
Andrews had fought substance use for years and been treated for alcoholism as an undergraduate. Then he started drinking again in graduate school.
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Weekly Standard
The government of New York City is offering counseling and support services for its city workers who are feeling "distressed" or "vulnerable" following last month's elections. In an email sent to city government employees last week and obtained by The Weekly Standard, a coalition of agencies offered to "share information and resources and to provide support" for workers.
"Many New Yorkers may be feeling distressed or vulnerable following the election results," the message begins. "We have seen the concerns expressed on social media and we are monitoring them closely."
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