{"title":"Anti-Drug Coalitions","authors":"Andrew Meisner","doi":"10.1300/J022V15N04_05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J022V15N04_05","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) is a non-profit organization that serves as a coordinating body for over 5, 000 grass roots, community coalitions, which are local partnerships mobilized to address and prevent substance abuse and related problems.","PeriodicalId":246202,"journal":{"name":"Employee Assistance Quarterly","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130036416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Comparison of Employee Assistance Programs Providing Internal versus External Treatment Services","authors":"Patricia O'Donnell Brummett","doi":"10.1300/J022v15n04_02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J022v15n04_02","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the differences between Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) providing treatment services internally versus those that limit activity to assessment and referral. Though much research has been done comparing internal versus external EAPs in terms of success, types of programs and cost/benefit, little research has compared internal versus external treatment services. As with the internal/ external EAP dichotomy, it is likely that internal treatment occurs mostly in large EAPs with large budgets serving large organizations. Beyond this more obvious difference, though, there are likely to be more subtle variations between internal and external treatment oriented EAPs. The goal of this paper is to help clarify some of those differences. The paper first states the hypothesis to be tested. Next, the sample and data collection techniques are outlined. Then, the variables used in the study are described. Next, techniques for dealing with missing data are discussed. Then, results are displayed and discussed. Finally, some conclusions and recommendations are made.","PeriodicalId":246202,"journal":{"name":"Employee Assistance Quarterly","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134626522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Absenteeism and Other Workplace Indicators of Employee Assistance Program Clients and Matched Controls","authors":"S. Macdonald, S. Wells, S. Lothian, M. Shain","doi":"10.1300/J022v15n03_04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J022v15n03_04","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The primary purpose of this study was to determine the impact of counselling through an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) on selected work performance indicators. Employee records on absenteeism and other performance criteria were collected for EAP clients and matched controls over a five year time period. Employee records on performance outcomes indicated that EAP clients had higher rates of sick days before, during and after treatment, compared to a matched control group. Additionally, rates of sick days had not significantly changed from before to after treatment among EAP clients. Supplementary data were obtained from EAP counsellors and EAP clients. Counsellor reports revealed that the most common problem addressed by the EAP was personal mental health (46.9%) followed by family problems (30.4%). A survey of EAP clients suggested that the majority of clients were satisfied with the overall quality of services, confidentiality, helpfulness of counsellors, and effectiveness of treatment.","PeriodicalId":246202,"journal":{"name":"Employee Assistance Quarterly","volume":"35 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131916806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perceptions of Body Image","authors":"Lisa Cusack","doi":"10.1300/J022v15n03_03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J022v15n03_03","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Perception of body image is an important component of self-concept and self-esteem. It has significant influence on work performance, a sense of physical attractiveness and incidents of health problems, such as anorexia. Negative perceptions of others by employees and supervisors can lead to violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act.","PeriodicalId":246202,"journal":{"name":"Employee Assistance Quarterly","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132030568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conflict vs. Cohesion","authors":"E. Danto","doi":"10.1300/J022v15n03_01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J022v15n03_01","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The languages spoken in the context of family and work life transmit ethnicity from one generation to the next, presenting each with cohesive cultural identity as well as strain and conflict. Yet conflict appears to be prevailing over cohesion all too often in work organizations. Today's Employee Assistance Program professionals should take on ethnic-sensitive practice because no workforce can afford to ignore systemic problems such as racism, poverty and discrimination. Applying group-work and psychodynamic theory to a non-clinical environment, this article describes and analyzes an EAP-based model of cross-cultural training. This type of program goes far in developing the sensitivity and awareness so necessary to genuine multi-culturalism.","PeriodicalId":246202,"journal":{"name":"Employee Assistance Quarterly","volume":"298 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115192641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Employee Assistance Program Education in Canada","authors":"R. Csiernik","doi":"10.1300/J022V15N03_02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J022V15N03_02","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Over the past few decades Employee Assistance Programming (EAP) has grown into a multi-million dollar industry in Canada, employing thousands of practitioners. With its emergence as a prominent field of practice one would have assumed a parallel development of formal post-secondary education in this area. However, a review of departments of business, psychology, social work and sociology in Canada's 56 liberal arts universities found virtually no specific academic training in Employee Assistance Programming. This is one contributing factor explaining the current lack of substantive EAP research efforts in Canada.","PeriodicalId":246202,"journal":{"name":"Employee Assistance Quarterly","volume":"11 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124404399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Use of Biofeedback as a Tool in Providing Relaxation Training in an Employee Assistance Program Setting","authors":"Jorge Cherbosque, F. L. Italiane","doi":"10.1300/J022V15N02_05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J022V15N02_05","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Biofeedback is an effective coping strategy for resisting the negative affects of stress. It offers a guide for behavior modification that will void the build-up of unnecessary stress, increased blood pressure, and unnecessary anxiety.","PeriodicalId":246202,"journal":{"name":"Employee Assistance Quarterly","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130234722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Internal versus External Employee Assistance Programs: What the Canadian Data Adds to the Debate","authors":"R. Csiernik","doi":"10.1300/J022V15N02_01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J022V15N02_01","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Since the emergence of external Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) in the 1970's to challenge the ensconced internal model, there has been an ongoing debate over which method of service delivery is superior. Numerous assumptions have arisen about the various strengths and limitations of the two models though the empirical support for these beliefs remains relatively limited. In this article, 36 Canadian EAP studies are used as the basis to assess the suppositions surrounding internal and external EAPs.","PeriodicalId":246202,"journal":{"name":"Employee Assistance Quarterly","volume":"18 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124303167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Innovative Approaches to Predicting and Preventing Addiction Relapse","authors":"C. Ramanathan, T. Reischl","doi":"10.1300/J022V15N02_04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J022V15N02_04","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The high rates of substance abuse relapse after participating in treatment programs forces human services professionals to reconsider prevailing addiction theories and treatment approaches. This article first discusses two theoretical orientations: (a) the more traditional and prevalent “disease model,” which emphasizes common, long-standing lifestyle and family background factors which affect addiction development and recovery and (b) the more recent “adaptive perspective,” which emphasizes individual differences in day-to-day stress, cognitive appraisal, and coping processes during recovery. Building on the more innovative adaptive perspective, there is a presentation of research findings that supports the development of a working theoretical model with key variables and causal pathways that affect addiction relapse. The theoretical model incorporates individual-level (behavioral, emotional, cognitive) variables as well as more environmental-level (social involvement, access to community resour...","PeriodicalId":246202,"journal":{"name":"Employee Assistance Quarterly","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121953907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Employee Crisis and Occupational Functioning","authors":"G. Sprang, M. Secret","doi":"10.1300/J022V15N02_03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J022V15N02_03","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study focuses on how employees respond to acute life events and chronic stressors that threaten the maintenance of effectual occupational functioning and productive activity. A profile of employees that experienced the most distress and job disruption is offered. Additionally, this study examines the type of event and how certain employee characteristics relate to post-crisis functioning. Implications of these findings for supervisory and/or managerial personnel fall into three categories: training, intervention and policy development.","PeriodicalId":246202,"journal":{"name":"Employee Assistance Quarterly","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121693879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}