WORKREACH LAB RESEARCH

Recent and upcoming research publications and presentations

Featured article:
The Elephant in the Room: The Underuse of EAPs by men

Published in the Plans & Trusts magazine (Nov/Dec 2022), this article reviews and challenges assumptions about men’s mental health and discusses the overhaul needed to increase men’s use of employee counselling services in a time of need.

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The Therapeutic Alliance as an Indicator of Well-Implemented and Impactful Workplace Counseling Services: Deployment of the Brief Therapeutic Alliance Scale in an Employee Assistance Program

Peer-reviewed study (2022) published in Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health

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

Published in the Plans & Trusts magazine (Jan/Feb 2020)

Total Unproductive Time at Work Index (TUTWI-3)

Validation of Workreach's Total Unproductive Time at Work Index

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.

Video-based EAP counselling: a research and service delivery perspective.

Available here

Video-based counselling

Journal of Employee Assistance: Q1 2021

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.

The impact of a Canadian external EAP on mental health and workplace functioning: findings from a prospective quasi-experimental study

Quasi-experimental EAP study

Research article (2019) published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health

EAPs in the Canadian Workplace

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

Discusses recent EAP research by Workreach Lab;

Virtual conference available online

Job stress in users of an employee assistance program and association with presenting status

Job stress in EAP users article

Research article (2018) published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health

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

Stigma as a barrier to the use of Employee Assistance Programs

Stigma as a barrier to use of EAPs

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

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

What's Work Got to Do With?

Work stress and health in EAPs

Dr. Milot was a speaker at the 2017 Employee Assistance Society of North America (EASNA) Institute.

Ongoing research

Benchmarking framework for workplace counselling
Implementaion fidelity studies in workplace counselling
Client-therapist matching
Therapist metrics
Men's mental health in the workplace