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Employee Wellness Assistance Program (EWAP)

Categories: Wellness
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About the Course

An employee assistance program (EAP) is a work-based intervention program designed to assist employees in resolving personal problems that may be adversely affecting the employee’s performance.

An employee assistance program is centered on helping employees handle stressors related to work, family, relationship problems, financial woes, legal concerns, and drug or alcohol struggles. Basically, an EAP helps employees handle issues which may impact the employee’s health and wellness, or even work performance. Sometimes, it is a possibility for both the employee and his/her family to participate in the employee assistance program.

An employee assistance program aims to assist employees:

  • Understand issues that directly impact them, even some underlying issues.
  • Clarify those issues and to explore how to address said issues.
  • Develop plans to tackle the issues and find helpful solutions.

Most employee assistance programs offer a particular amount of counseling referral sessions, like 1-3, at no cost to the employee. These sessions help to assess the issue the employee is experiencing before recommending a resource, therapist, or service. It’s important to know that an EAP is not a long-term counseling solution, but it does help steer the employee in that direction.

 

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What Will You Learn?

  • When you have an employee assistance program at your company, an employee can call a phone number to start getting immediate help from a counselor.
  • The topics covered include the following examples:
  • Workplace conflicts – bullying and harassment, work-life balance, managing conflict or relationships with a difficult manager or co-workers, performance problems, adjusting to changes in the workplace, and managing work-related stress.
  • Substance abuse – alcohol or drug addiction, dealing with an employee’s addiction, or dealing with a family member’s addiction.
  • Personal or family issues – midlife and life transition issues, physical or emotional abuse by a partner, domestic violence, separation, divorce, or parenting and step-parenting issues.
  • Mental health issues – depression, anxiety, anger management, low self-esteem, stress management, or anything else an employee or their family member is struggling with.
  • Health and caregiving issues – managing a disability or medical issue or getting help for an ill or elderly loved one.
  • Legal and family advice – marriage counseling, divorce, or child custody issues.
  • Financial counseling – gambling, bankruptcy, paying credit card debt, or creating a working budget.
  • Grief assistance – supporting employees who have lost a loved one, employees feeling the loss of a co-worker or a major event like a fire at work.

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6 years ago
Very good course, great structure, really easy to follow. Have gone back and forth many times to check on some issues arising on my site. Also very handy to see what kind of plugins are available to serve different purposes.
6 years ago
Excellent feel good fit for my I study and install accounting software. However wow a lot of stuff covered here. For me great. For a lot of others beginners may be a little over whelming. Again for me extremely helpful. I study software in chunks.