Employee Assistance Programs: A Place for Rehabilitation Counselors?

Abstract

A questionnaire containing sixty statements about skills considered important to rehabilitation counseling was sent to fifty companies thought to have Employee Assistance Programs. The purpose of the survey was to determine whether or not persons working in EAP's thought skills rehabilitation counselors possessed were applicable to the EAP field. Although most of the thirteen respondents agreed that skill correspondence was high, there was some indication that they saw the advocacy role of rehabilitation counselors as highly threatening to the status quo in business. Therefore it is questionable whether EAP's are actually feasible targets for the employment of rehabilitation counselors despite the fact that they are matched in skill level to EAP workers.