Evaluating web-based training for employee assistance program counselors on the use of screening and brief intervention for at-risk alcohol use
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Jeremy W. Bray, Professor and Department Head (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: This article assesses a Web-based training for Employee Assistance Program (EAP) counselors on screening and brief intervention (SBI) for at-risk alcohol use. The training had four learning objectives: (1) increase counselors' awareness and sense of importance of at-risk drinking as a health behavior, (2) increase their sense of preparedness to deliver the brief intervention, (3) increase their sense of self-efficacy in helping clients with health behaviors, including at-risk drinking, and (4) increase their perceptions of the efficacy of counselors in general in dealing with health behaviors, including at-risk drinking. Results show increases in counselors' recognition of health behaviors as important, in their sense of preparedness to help clients with health behaviors, and in their sense of self-efficacy in dealing with health behaviors but no change in counselors' perceptions of the efficacy of counselors in general. These results suggest that Web-based training is an effective mode for teaching EAP counselors.
Evaluating web-based training for employee assistance program counselors on the use of screening and brief intervention for at-risk alcohol use
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health
- Language: English
- Date: 2009
- Keywords
- alcohol use, brief intervention, screening, web-based instruction