Do EAPs Duplicate with Services Offered Through Mental Health Benefit Plans?

Abstract

The EAP field has identified the skills and knowledge needed to provide EAP as unique from other helping professions. The most prevalent model in the delivery of EAPs is the Affiliate Network, where EAP vendors contract with a network of independent behavioral health clinicians, or "Affiliates", to provide EAP services in a private office to employees and family members. What has not been systematically examined until this study is whether EAPs tend to duplicate or overlap with "General Practice" counseling or psychotherapy covered through an employer's benefit plan.