Mental Health


Alcoholism In The Workplace

Especially in small companies that can't afford in-house occupational alcoholism and employee assistance programs, employers and managers seldom deal effe...  Read story

The Anonymous Alcoholic

Problem drinkers often don't even know they're the problem.  Read story

Life After Stress, By Martin Shaffer. Plenum, 233 Spring St., New York, Ny 10013; 273 Pp., $14.95.

A clinical psychologist tells how to relax at work and at home.   Read story

Substance Abuse

Substance abuse in the workplace is a subject of concern to many small business owners, to one degree or another. Oftentimes the issue is a sensitive one ...  Read story

Where Do I Start?

The first step is recognizing your symptoms.  Read story

Why Drug Testing Is A Bad Idea

The call keeps going out for mandatory drug testing of people in jobs ranging from truck driver to basketball player to investment banker. And nowhere is...  Read story

Shrink Service

New business information on employee benefit services.  Read story

Coping with Drugs

Profile of three companies' drug and alcohol policies.  Read story

Team Angst

A psychiatrist examines the conflict that often arises in work teams, comparing them with group therapy sessions. A good team relationship, he suggests, requ...  Read story

Mental Health Parity Legislation Considered by States

May 11, 2005 --As mental health parity legislation gathers speed, small businesses are likely to be the worst affected. Twenty-thre...  Read story

More Employees Admit Drug Use, Alcohol Abuse

As many as 10 million drug users now hold full-time jobs, but most companies have not taken steps to address the problem.  Read story

Employers Losing War on Stress

A new survey says most companies do not adequately address the mental health needs of their employees.  Read story

Prozac Notion

Talk about a convenient society. Try 1-800-I-NEED-A-THERAPIST-NOW.  Read story

Help Employees Reduce Work-Related Stress

Employee stress and customer service are like oil and water--the two don't mix. A stressed-out employee in any industry is likely to be irritable or downr...  Read story

Rx

If All Else Fails, Increase Your Alpha Waves.  Read story

Habit-Forming

New business produces a tabloid targeting recovering addicts and alcoholics and their families.  Read story

Healthy Returns

Before 'wellness' became all the rage, a small Minnesota sawmill found a commonsense way to reduce accidents, alcoholism, and absenteeism  Read story

The Death of Status

A look at how changes in business culture have obliterated the traditional benchmarks of success.  Read story

Economy Got You Stressed?

Experts suggest ways for CEOs to relax during the recession.  Read story

Do You Have a Right to Know?

FaxPoll results on employee drug and alcohol abuse.  Read story

A Relaxed Workforce

Why is a Mississippi businessperson talking about transcendental meditation, and why are Seattle managers paying for back rubs for employees? They're test...  Read story

The Savior Complex

As a CEO, you instinctively want to help workers whose personal problems are interfering with their job performance. A look at how far one business owner wen...  Read story

Placing The Stress On Emotional Well-being

How to evaluate consultants who offer relief from psychological strain in the workplace.  Read story

Dry Shoulder for Hire

Using employee assistance programs what to look for in them.  Read story

The Examined Health-Insurance Bill

Reducing health-care costs by analyzing itemized bills, becoming self-insured, soliciting outside bids.  Read story

Merits of Madness

Why being just a little bit crazy is a good thing for American entrepreneurs.  Read story

Rocky Road For Partners

We enjoyed your championship coverage of "Sparring Partners." We think, however, that your article did not go the full 15 rounds, in that you failed to li...  Read story

Most Likely to Succeed

Products for anxious parents.  Read story

Quote Of The Month;

"There's only one thing that counts in a business: building the self-esteem of your employees. Nothing else matters, because what they feel about themsel...  Read story

Words to the Wired

A fast-growing company contracted an expert in stress reduction to teach employees techniques for reducing stress.  Read story

Not So Close, Please

Excerpts from a survey dealing with employees' perceptions of their companies' work/family policies.  Read story

Are You Sales Phobic?

Alas, the cure is to sell more often.  Read story

Keeping Fit

While most businesses are trying to control health insurance costs, some companies are spending more on employee health programs than ever before.  Read story

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Related Terms: Disabled Customers The Am...  Read story

Head Trip

Toymaker markets the FreudToy, a doll-sized version of the father of psychoanalysis.  Read story

Stressed-Out Parents Cost Companies $300 Billion in Lost Productivity

Concerns about after-school childcare can have a negative impact on job performance, according to a new study.  Read story

Is the Economy Stressing You Out?

Business owners and employees alike are feeling anxious and losing sleep -- and all that concern about layoffs, rising costs, and a tumbling stock market is ...  Read story

Apple Pie Marketing

Laurel Cutler's assessment (Face-to-Face, November) of the role of market research in the marketing mix of tasks was right on. Her last point sums i...  Read story

Breaking the Rules of Sales

Exceptional sales professionals do the opposite of what most professionals do -- and often break the rules of traditional selling to achieve their success.  Read story