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Article: New initiatives in the EAP field: employee assistance professionals can take advantage of new collaborative and educational opportunities.(employee assistance program)
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- Behavioral Healthcare
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- April 1, 2006
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These are challenging--but exciting--times in the EAP field. Although challenges such as disease management are facing the field, some exciting initiatives are under way. Below I touch on two: the establishment of the new Center for Employee Assistance Quality Advancement and Northeastern University's Online EAP Institute.
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New EAP Group
In 1999, Ron Manderscheid, PhD, then chief of the Survey and Analysis Branch in SAMHSA's Center for Mental Health Services, asked me to convene a group of the major private- and public-sector leaders in the EAP field and to act as a consultant to the group. Dr. Manderscheid believed that ...