Recently added articles from The Journal of Employee Assistance:
Positioning your EAP for the recovery.(Front Desk)(employee assistance programs)
Oct 01, 2009; ... What would you have done differently 12 months ago if you had known that today we would be in the midst of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression? What would you have done to help your employer and employee clients survive the recession, and what changes in strategy or ...
Back to the EAP Core Technology.(Letter)(Letter to the editor)
Oct 01, 2009; ... As a founding member of EAPA (then known as ALMACA), I read with great interest the 3rd quarter 2009 issue of the Journal of Employee Assistance and particularly the articles titled "Do 'Free' EAPs Offer Discernible Value," "The New EAP Purchasing Realities," and "Commodity or Craft: The ...
Intervention strategies for evidence-based EAPs: enough research has been conducted on secondary intervention strategies to enable employee assistance professionals to develop an evidence-based EAP.
Oct 01, 2009; ... In recent years, articles in this journal have attempted to offer solutions to the commoditization of employee assistance programs. Some EA practitioners (Burke 2008; Hughes 2007) have advocated a renewed focus on the field's core competency of solving problems related to human behavior ...
Is addiction a disease? Addicts speak of a loss of control, and addiction is best viewed as such. EA professionals can help by educating alcoholics and addicts about the nature of their condition and holding them responsible for maintaining abstinence.
Oct 01, 2009; ... Is addiction a disease? For academics, it's a subject of debate; for the public (and many clinicians), it's an article of faith. But for employee assistance professionals, it's a dilemma--a very difficult dilemma with consequences that reach far beyond the wellbeing of any individual ...
Depression: a lot bigger than you think: the absenteeism- and presenteeism-related costs of depression outweigh the medical and pharmaceutical costs and make a strong case for EAP intervention against this condition.
Oct 01, 2009; ... For any benefits or employee assistance professional seeking financial support for program expansion, the question likely to be asked by senior management is, "What return are we getting for our benefits investment?" Like it or not, those senior managers are doing their job, ...