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 The Employee Assistance Professionals Association Board of Directors, Employee Assistance Certification Commission, and the staff of EAPA offers best wishes for the coming holiday seasons to our members, CEAPs, partners and EA professionals everywhere! As we reflect on the past year, we list in reverse chronological order, the 20 most popular NewsBrief articles of 2016, Part 1. Regular publication of the Newsbrief will resume Tuesday, Jan. 3. Happy New Year!
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Lexology
From Sept. 20: In light of the recent news of tragic shootings and workplace violence around the country, employers are left wondering how they can protect their operations and employees from such events. Rightfully so — employers also have a duty to protect their employees, clients and customers from harm and can be held liable for failing to do so.
Recently, the State of New York enacted legislation making it a felony to assault certain public sector employees. While private employers don't have such sweeping authority, there are several steps they can take to ensure safety in the workplace.
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Examiner.com
From March 22: Workplace bullying continues to garner a lot of attention these days. More and more people are becoming aware of what consequences abusive behavior in the workplace can cause. Many people want to cry bullying, but they may not know what bullying behavior actually is. Not every negative action taken in the workplace by an employer or by coworkers should be considered bullying, even if the behavior results in a hurtful reaction...
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Psychotherapy Networker
From Jan. 5: For nearly 50 years, cognitive behavioral therapy has claimed higher scientific authority among the vast legion of psychotherapy approaches as a result of having more research demonstrate its effectiveness than any other therapeutic method. Increasingly, that track record of empirical evidence has been acknowledged and even translated into government funders and insurance companies requiring therapists to use CBT if they want to be reimbursed. But recent developments have raised questions about whether the effectiveness and scientific bona fides of CBT have been overstated.
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The Washington Post
From Feb. 9: It was November 2012 when Dennis Hartman, a Seattle business executive, managed to pull himself out of bed, force himself to shower for the first time in days and board a plane that would carry him across the country to a clinical trial at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda.
After a lifetime of profound depression, 25 years of therapy and cycling through 18 antidepressants and mood stabilizers, Hartman, then 46, had settled on a date and a plan to end it all. The clinical trial would be his last attempt at salvation.
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The Huffington Post
From April 19: According to the Workplace Bullying Institute, bullies are more likely to intimidate and discredit the stronger, more competent people and not the ones who are weaker. Their targets also have different values from their own: including ethics, integrity, fairness and collaboration.
The payback for bullying is that, by discrediting their colleague/subordinate, the bully's career usually thrives. If you're in that very difficult situation, here's your toolbox.
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The National Law Review
From Aug. 2: The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (Parity Act) requires health plans to provide the same coverage for mental health conditions as they provide for physical conditions, and that financial requirements and treatment limitations applicable to mental health and substance use disorder benefits be no more restrictive than those that apply to medical and surgical benefits. But can a mental health provider directly challenge an insurer’s benefit denial of coverage for a patient’s mental health treatment under the Parity Act or ERISA?
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U.S. News & World Report
From May 10: Two thirds of primary care doctors say they have a tough time getting mental-health services for their patients. Doctors in a new Health Affairs study said several factors, from a shortage of professionals in some regions or in some specialties to problems with insurance coverage, make getting mental-health services challenging. (Note: EAPA member Norbert J. Alicea contributed information and was quoted in this article.)
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Business Management Daily
From Aug. 23: The scene is all too common: A disgruntled employee is fired for poor performance. On his way out, he threatens his manager and co-workers. Fortunately, situations like this usually end with the terminated employee cooling off, filing for unemployment and getting on with his life.
But what happens when the employee doesn't let it go?
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Entrepreneur
From April 26: Employers don't want to think about it. Employees don't want to talk about it. But this invisible hand is directly affecting how productive your team is. And for business owners, that's directly affecting your bottom line.
That invisible hand is mental health.
An employee who is battling chronic mental health issues such as depression or situational issues such as work stress is going to be distracted. With the help of a new wave of technology-enabled healthcare companies, employers are starting to understand just how important it is that workers get access to care for both their teeth and minds.
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The New York Times
From Oct. 18: Record numbers of college students use Adderral to get through college. The off-label use of prescription stimulants had come to represent the second-most-common form of illicit drug use in college by 2004. Only marijuana was more popular. And many of them enter the workplace addicted to the substance. In 2012, roughly 16 million Adderall prescriptions were written for adults between ages 20 and 39. Of concern is that very little is known about what Adderall does over years of use. To date, there is almost no research on the long-term effects on humans of using Adderall.
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