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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 2. Regular publication of the Newsbrief will resume Tuesday, Jan. 3. Happy New Year!
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From May 31: Many employers are still struggling with low employee engagement in their wellness programs. Too often, employees either do the bare minimum requirements of their wellness program, or they get engaged initially but then interest tapers off. According to one finding, 63 percent of employers cited "low employee engagement" as the biggest barrier to a successful wellness program.
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Employee Benefit News
From Sept. 13: With work-life balance giving way to 24/7 work-life blending, the modern workplace has changed. The new workforce as a whole, not only millennials, expect much more than a paycheck from employers, leaving businesses with the task of recognizing and addressing ever-changing workforce needs.
To help employers support employees professionally and personally, the employee assistance program industry is also changing. To meet the needs of this diverse, tech-savvy, global workforce, the EAP has evolved from its early origins as a substance abuse resource to become a multi-faceted employee support program that reduces stress at work and at home.
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ThinkProgress
From Jan. 26: Brenda Crawford was taught the textbook description of psychosis while she was studying for a masters degree in counseling, decades ago.
"It was always explained as 'hearing voices in your head'," said Crawford, who works for Wyoming's state employee assistance program. "Which I had no way of really understanding."
That is, until she took her first Mental Health First Aid class.
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Human Resource Executive Online
From July 26: Question: Can we require our employees to use an employee-assistance program? We have an employee who made a physical threat against her supervisor to a member of HR. We want to make that employee consult with a therapist at an EAP as a condition for that employee being able to return to work, as we are concerned that she may have emotional problems. Are we allowed to require that this or any other employee consult with an EAP as a condition for maintaining his or her job? Are there any laws that we risk breaking if we do this?
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The Business Journals
From Aug. 16: With regard to stopping violence as in the case of an "active shooter" or now an "active truck driver," I will leave those tactics up to your security staff, the police, FBI and military.
With regard to preventing violence, one thing to keep in mind is that once a shooter, killer, bully, etc. has reached that point, their mind is almost on autopilot where the level of violence is directly proportionate to the level of rage they are feeling. The greater the rage, the greater the level of violence.
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Partnership for Workplace Mental Health
From Nov. 1: 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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Workforce
From June 14: "You get what you pay for." This adage rings especially true in the business world. Low salaries generally attract mediocre talent. Cheap technology is often inefficient and can require costly repairs. And free employee assistance programs can incur high healthcare costs for employers.
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National Institutes of Health
From June 7: "The Marijuana and Cannabinoids: A Neuroscience Research Summit," convened by NIH in March 2016, has summarized its proceedings and made them available to mental health professionals and other interested parties. The Summit presented evidence-based information on the neurological and psychiatric effects of marijuana, other cannabinoids, and the endocannabinoid system. Presenters also suggested scientific areas for future research.
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The New York Times
From Feb. 9: What does it take to feel understood?
This is arguably the single question helping to reshape the modern psychotherapeutic landscape.
Call it boutique therapy: a swirl of contemporary tastes and consumer expectations that has yielded a collection of psychotherapeutic options specially designed for almost any circumstance in which humans could find themselves.
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The New York Times
From April 26: Suicide in the United States has surged to the highest levels in nearly 30 years, a federal data analysis has found, with increases in every age group except older adults. The rise was particularly steep for women. It was also substantial among middle-aged Americans, sending a signal of deep anguish from a group whose suicide rates had been stable or falling since the 1950s.
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