Question

1. Bryan-Clayton and Associates is striving to be an employer of choice in the National Capital Region and they would like to purchase an appropriate Employee Assistance Program for their organization. What types of services could they expect from such a carrier? Describe 5 types of counselling services typically provided by EAPs.

Answer 1

An Employee Assistance Program (EAP) is manly a program that is focused on the certain work and it is participated by the different employees voluntarily in order to obtain the free and secret evaluation of their performance, facilitating short term counseling, referrals and different types of other follow up activities so that the employees can have better management of the work-related or personal issues or problems.

The different services that can be included in it are evaluation, counseling, referrals to the manpower so that they can effectively manage their work related to personal issues resulting from workplace pressure and stress, financial problems, family issues, workplace clashes, addiction of drug and so on

EAP can facilitate counseling in the below-stated areas=

Work stress-related issues

Family-related issue

Financial or legal issues

Substance abuse

Balancing work and family.