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Since the 1950s, social scientists have devoted serious attention to the relationship between alcohol and the workplace. In recent years, awareness of the tremendous costs, both human and financial, associated with alcoholism has led to a dramatic increase in both scholarly and practical interest in the field. Although researchers working in this area are relatively few, they have sustained a lively interest in the alcohol/work nexus and have attracted others to the field through conferences where ideas and research strategies are exchanged. The larger part of Alcohol Problem Intervention in the Workplace provides an up-to-date thorough examination of the problem, the research, and the possible solutions.

This volume is directed toward both practitioners and researchers, providing a wide range of new data and new ideas that bear upon coping with alcohol problems in the workplace. Part I addresses issues regarding the distribution and correlates of alcohol problems and alcohol use among employees. Part II is centered on issues associated with Employee Assistance Programs. And Part III is a general conclusion and overview offering suggestions and implications for the practitioner in the workplace. Because this collection supplies the most current thinking and information on controlling alcohol problems in the workplace, it will be of particular interest to human resource management and to employee assistance specialists, who are now required to pass a certification examination.

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• Preface
• The Salience of Alcohol Problems in the Work Setting: Introduction and Overview
• The Social and Organizational Contexts of Alcohol Problems in the Workplace
• The Impact of Macrosocial Forces on the Distribution of Alcohol Problems in the Workplace
• Employed Adults at Risk for Diminished Self-Control Over Alcohol Use: The Alienated, the Burned Out and the Unchallenged
• Jobs, Occupations, and Patterns of Alcohol Consumption: A Review of Literature
• Microsocial Processes Impacting on Alcohol Problems Over Work Careers
• Occupational Drinking Subcultures: An Exploratory Epidemiological Study
• Drinking, Social Networks, and the Workplace: Results of an Environmentally Focused Study
• Business and Professional Women: Primary Prevention for New Role Incumbents
• The Extent and Patterning of Job-Related Drinking Problems
• Employee Assistance Programs and Related Strategies: Structure, Dynamics, and Problems
• Employee Assistance Programs: Utilization and Referral Data, Performance Management and Prevention Concepts
• Health Promotion Pograms and the Prevention of Alcohol Abuse: Forging a Link
• Expanding the Role of EAP's into Primary Prevention: The EAP as Organizational Consultant
• EAPs and Early Intervention: Maximizing the Opportunities
• The Bystander-Equity Model of Supervisory Helping Behavior: Past and Future Research on the Prevention of Employee Problems
• EAPs and Early Intervention for Alcohol Problems at the Workplace
• Help-Seeking and Helping Processes within the Workplace: Assisting Alcoholic and Other Troubled Employees
• Workplace Influences on Attitudes about Alcoholism
• EAP and Wellness Program Follow-up as Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Prevention Strategies in the Workplace
• A Systematic Approach to Evaluation of Employee Assistance Programs: A Conceptual Analysis
• Alcoholism Treatment Providers and the Workplace
• Alcoholism Treatment Programs and the Worksite: Sources of Conflict
• The Need for Cooperation
• Practical Implications of Strategic Alternatives in Dealing with Alcohol Problems in the Workplace
• Implications for Intervention and Prevention in Three Streams of EAP-Related Research
• Prevention of Alcohol Problems in the Workplace: A Public Policy Perspective
• Strategic Considerations in Designing Interventions to Deal with Alcohol Problems in the Workplace
• Index

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PAUL M. ROMAN is Professor of Sociology and Director, Center for Research on Deviance, Institute of Behavioral Research, University of Georgia. He is on the editorial board of the Employee Assistance Quarterly and is the editor or author of many books and journal articles.