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The University of Maryland School of Social Work – the only social work program with a dedicated Employee Assistance (EA) curriculum as part of the larger MSW program – hosts the Employee Assistance Digital Archive.
The Employee Assistance Digital Archive is a free, publicly accessible site where EA professionals can post original works, historical documents or other related papers. The intent of the Archive is to preserve important historical documents in the EA field as well as to provide a national depository for all significant articles in the field.
Please visit our Employee Assistance Digital Archive Homepage to learn about how you can submit and use the Archive.
Recent Submissions
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Suicide in Healthcare: Awareness and Prevention"I cry and no one cares" INTRODUCTION It is important for healthcare organizations to prioritize suicide prevention and provide support for their staff to address this critical issue. However, even when that support exists, medical professionals are in a unique position to not seek out or accept mental health help. Stigma for seeking help is real, and getting confidential care is a valid concern.
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The Business case for Mental Health Initiatives in the WorkplaceThe impact of poor mental health at work Mental health is not a problem that is unique to the U.S. Globally, nearly 4 in 10 adults aged 15 or over either endure significant depression and anxiety themselves or have a close friend or family member who suffers from it. The serious increase of global unhappiness, in turn, reveals a steadily rising percentage of people over the last 10 years who report significant amounts of anger, stress, worry, sadness and physical pain the day before, reaching a new high in 2021
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Journal of Employee Assistance 2011Arlington, VA: Employee Assistance Professionals Association, 2011
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SAMHSA Overdose Prevention and Response ToolkitThe primary purpose of this Toolkit is to educate a broad audience on overdose causes, risks, and signs, as well as the steps to take when witnessing and responding to an overdose. It provides clear, accessible information on opioid overdose reversal medications, such as naloxone. This Toolkit serves to complement, not replace, training on overdose prevention and response. It is also intended to augment the use of other overdose prevention tools for community engagement and planning, as well as enhance provider education across multiple practice areas. Overdose education and response tools have the greatest impact when focused on people who use drugs because they are most likely to witness and respond to an overdose. However, it is important to recognize that anyone could witness an overdose—whether on the street, at work, at home, in a clinical setting, or in a school. This Toolkit is therefore available for everyone to provide basic knowledge on how to recognize and respond to an overdose.
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Introduction to the International Employee Assistance Digital Archive: A Knowledge HubThis webinar is offered to various EAPA Chapters to introduce them to the International Employee Assistance Digital Archive resources. This particular set of slides introduced this repository to the Georgia EAPA Chapter in the late summer of 2024.
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Supporting Young Minds - Communications Guide and Resourcce GuideMHA Resources Looking for tools to help address and improve youth mental health? Check out Mental Health America’s 2024 #SupportingYoungMinds Resource Guide for info and tools for adults to use in their work with young people! Learn more at mhanational.org/young-minds We’re joining Mental Health America’s #SupportingYoungMinds campaign to help spread the word that empowering young people is key to improving youth mental health. Learn more at mhanational.org/young-minds We encourage you to explore tools for parents and caregivers, school personnel, and other adults in a young person’s life in Mental Health America’s 2024 #SupportingYoungMinds Resource Guide. mhanational.org/young-minds Young people are our future – let’s empower youth voices in mental health! Visit mhanational.org/youth to find information and opportunities for young mental health
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Reported Non–Substance-Related Mental Health Disorders Among Persons Who Died of Drug Overdose — United States, 2022Drug overdose deaths remain a public health crisis in the United States; nearly 107,000 and nearly 108,000 deaths occurred in 2021 and 2022, respectively. Persons with mental health conditions are at increased risk for overdose. In addition, substance use disorders and non–substance-related mental health disorders (MHDs) frequently co-occur. Using data from CDC’s State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System, this report describes characteristics of persons in 43 states and the District of Columbia who died of unintentional or undetermined intent drug overdose and had any MHD. In 2022, 21.9% of persons who died of drug overdose had a reported MHD. Using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition criteria, the most frequently reported MHDs were depressive (12.9%), anxiety (9.4%), and bipolar (5.9%) disorders. Overall, approximately 80% of overdose deaths involved opioids, primarily illegally manufactured fentanyls. Higher proportions of deaths among decedents with an MHD involved antidepressants (9.7%) and benzodiazepines (15.3%) compared with those without an MHD (3.3% and 8.5%, respectively). Nearly one quarter of decedents with an MHD had at least one recent potential opportunity for intervention (e.g., approximately one in 10 decedents were undergoing substance use disorder treatment, and one in 10 visited an emergency department or urgent care facility within 1 month of death). Expanding efforts to identify and address co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders (e.g., integrated screening and treatment) and strengthen treatment retention and harm reduction services could save lives.
