What are EAP Services?

Major Services Provided by an EAP:

1. Information Dissemination:

  • Design and development of company policy
  • Ongoing supervisory training
  • Distribution of pamphlets, fact-sheets, audio-visual material

2. Counselling:

  • Individual
  • Group
  • Family
  • Substance Abuse
  • Referral

3. Health and Wellness:

  • Healthy lifestyle programmes
  • Fitness analysis
  • Safety programmes
  • Dietary and nutritional programmes

4. Family Life Education:

  • Effective parenting training
  • Understanding human sexuality
  • Sexually transmitted diseases
  • Social and spiritual development

5. Community Outreach:

  • Assisting in community development projects
  • Developing ‘youth link’ programmes

6. Critical Incident Stress Debriefing:

  • Responding to critical or traumatic incidents at the workplace

7. Workshops:

  • Team Building:
    • Importance of teamwork
    • Key Ingredients for working in a team
  • Effective Communication:
    • Barriers to communication
    • Techniques and use of self
  • Stress Management:
    • Coping with today’s pressures
    • Avoiding ‘burnout’ on the job
  • Substance Abuse in the workplace:
    • Defining the correlation between substance abuse and employee tardiness
    • Substance abuse and employee absenteeism
  • Retirement:
    • Planning for retirement
    • Adjusting to a new lifestyle
    • Financial management after retirement

8. Work-Life:

  • Legal
  • Financial
  • Family
  • Elder and Child Care