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Employee Assistance Programming: In Search of Effective Interventions for the Problem‐Drinking Employee
Author(s) -
Walker Keith,
Shain Martin
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
british journal of addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0952-0481
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1983.tb02513.x
Subject(s) - psychological intervention , employee assistance , psychology , extension (predicate logic) , applied psychology , management science , process management , computer science , public relations , business , political science , engineering , psychiatry , programming language
Summary A critical review is made of traditional approaches to occupationally‐based alcoholism programmes (Employee Assistance Programmes: E.A.Ps). Methodological problems in E.A.P. research are briefly reviewed and major conceptual, ethical and practical difficulties underlying E.A.P. implementation are identified. Suggestions for improving the efficacy and efficiency of E.A.Ps include: (i) the integration of alcoholism services with more effective systems of employee performance‐management and (ii) the extension of E.A.Ps to include interventions aimed at the‘non‐alcoholic’problem‐drinking employee.