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As 2013 comes to a close, EAPA wishes its members and other EAP NewsBrief readers a safe and happy holiday season. Again this year, employee assistance professionals around the world have responded to personal and workplace crises, saved lives and made a difference in the quality of life for millions of our fellow human beings. EAPA salutes you for your dedicated and important work! Our end-of-the-year EAP NewsBrief, to be published on Monday, Dec. 30, will feature 2013's greatest NewsBrief "hits," the Top 10 most accessed articles from the past year. The regular publication schedule will resume Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014.
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Employers can help employees beat the holiday blues
Employee Benefits News
People who are depressed but not treated consume 2 to 4 times the health care resources as those who are properly treated. The good news is employers can address this problem head on, and at relatively low cost. The first step is already embedded in the fabric of most companies — an employee assistance program. Based on a behavioral risk survey conducted by our organization in 2012, 97 percent of employers surveyed had an existing EAP program. But as prevalent as EAPs are, they are woefully underutilized.
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Most organizational clients and EAP Providers say they are satisfied with a 90% EAP Customer Satisfaction/EAP helpful rate. Consider a 10,000 employee population. Even if just 6% use your EAP in a year, there are 60 employees that are disatisafied and feel their EAP was not helpful.
Find out why? Use our independent EAP Survey.
www.EAPSURVEYS.com
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The selling of attention deficit disorder
The New York Times
After more than 50 years leading the fight to legitimize attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Keith Conners could be celebrating. Severely hyperactive and impulsive children, once shunned as bad seeds, are now recognized as having a real neurological problem. But Conners did not feel triumphant this fall as he addressed a group of fellow A.D.H.D. specialists in Washington.
Symptoms of combat-related psychological trauma eased by new brief therapy
Medical News Today
Accelerated Resolution Therapy is a brief, safe and effective treatment for combat-related symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder among veterans and U.S. service members, researchers at University of South Florida College of Nursing report in a new study. They found this newer treatment — a combination of evidence-based psychotherapies and use of eye movements — was shorter and more likely to be completed, than conventional therapies formally endorsed by the U.S. Department of Defense and the Veterans Administration.
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Stress and the leadership factor
Human Resource Executive Online
The obsessive focus on short-term results has led to unhealthy workplaces led by emotionally unhealthy people. In such an environment, even the best-designed health and wellness programs won't be effective. Are leaders who neglect their own emotional health be partly responsible for increasing stress in the workplace?
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When employees need help with an addiction, you want to get them the help they need. Focus Treatment Centers provides the help they need. We are accredited by the Joint Commission, endorsed by the leading voices in chemical and behavioral addictions, and committed to providing the highest standard of care. Email
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In UK, 2 in 10 workers start the week stressed
Workplace Savings and Benefits
Over a third (36 percent) of employees in the U.K. start the week on Monday morning feeling tired despite the weekend break, with high levels of depression, stress and anxiety. According to Canada Life Group Insurance, more than 1 in 10 (12 percent) describe themselves as feeling depressed, while 20 percent are stressed or anxious.
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Workplace depression caused primarily by workplace injustice
La Jolla Light
Why are workers so depressed? It's not because they don't like their jobs. Nor is it due to heavy workloads. The results of a Danish study show that the bosses' behavior is the main cause of workplace depression.
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