Featured article:

A Researcher's Inside Look at the Impact of Employee Assistance Programs

Published in the Plans & Trusts magazine (Jan/Feb 2020), this piece discusses the role of employee assistance programs (EAPs) in addressing mental health challenges and their economic impact in the workplace. It also discusses recent impact/outcome studies we conducted with the Canadian EAP provider Arete HR Inc.

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Characteristics of working Canadians and mental health

Workreach Lab research report (December 2020).

This cross-sectional study aimed to identify the characteristics of working Canadians associated with poor
mental health.
 

Resilience and self-efficacy

Dr. Milot was a  speaker at the 2018 Employee Assitance Society of North America (EASNA) Institute.

Investigating Resilience & Self-Efficacy in Workplace Counseling

Lost productive time at work index

Research report in preparation for publication

Validation of Workreach's Lost Productive Time at Work Index (LPTWI-3)

EAP treatment stigma

Research article and scale (2019) published in  the EASNA Research Notes journal

EAP treatment stigma as a barrier to employee help-seeking: predictors and validation of a brief scale for its measurement.

EAPs in the Canadian Workplace

Presented at the 53rd annual Canadian Employee Benefits Conference (2020)

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Discusses recent EAP research by Workreach Lab;

Virtual conference available online

A Workreach Solutions research report (2019). Full report is available here.

Stigma as a barrier to the use of Employee Assistance Programs

EAP benefit equity

Research article (2017) published in the EASNA Research Notes journal.

Evaluating Benefit Equity in Outcomes Among Users of an Employee Assistance Program

Psychological job stress scale

Research report in preparation for publication

Validation of Workreach's Psychological Feelings of Job Stress Scale (PFJSS-4)

Ongoing research

• Exercise and workplace health and productivity (McGill University collaboration)

• Alternative measures of workplace well-being

• Improved screening of alcohol-related presenteeism/absenteeism

• Transtheoretical model of change in the workplace

• Many others...