DESPITE a long track record in the US, employee assistance programmes (EAPs) have only become part of UK employers' welfare-at-work armoury in the past two decades. In the US, the modern EAP's roots lie in the 1940s when, supported by Alcoholics Anonymous, American employers including DuPont and Eastman Kodak set up the first workplace alcohol counselling services. By the 1970s, these early employee counselling services had evolved into a more contemporary model, offering the broad range of confidential professional counselling and advice services that make up today's EAPs.
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