WORKREACH LAB RESEARCH
Recent and upcoming research publications and presentations
Featured article:
The Elephant in the Room: The Underuse of EAPs by men
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
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.
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
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Benchmarking framework for workplace counselling
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Implementaion fidelity studies in workplace counselling
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Client-therapist matching
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Therapist metrics
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Men's mental health in the workplace