Contemporary Occupational Health Psychology (Global Perspectives on Research and Practice) || Peer Assistance Programs in the Workplace

✍ Scribed by Houdmont, Jonathan; Leka, Stavroula

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2010
• Weight: 551 KB
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 0470682655
• DOI: 10.1002/9780470661550.ch9

✦ Synopsis

Peer assistance programs (PAPs), also known as member assistance programs (MAPs), are voluntary, peer-based frameworks that motivate employees experiencing personal problems to seek help, facilitate the process of help-seeking, and, in some cases, directly provide support and assistance to those employees . While their roots stretch back over a century, contemporary PAPs emerged in American workplaces as a union-based response to employee assistance programs (EAPs)-management-based frameworks for helping employees in need French,