EAPs and Stress Management : From Theory to Practice to Comprehensiveness

Recently a more cynical attitude to workplace stress reduction programmes has been emerging. If these programmes are accepted as beneficial then what has gone wrong? Attempts to answer this question and to search for reasons why stress intervention programmes have failed to realize their potential. Identifies a number of possible stumbling blocks including issues of power, ethics, theory, methodology, philosophy and skill practice. Out of the discussion come a number of directions for future practice.