Employee Assistance Program Inventory®

The Employee Assistance Program Inventory is an an intake and screening device for processionals that quickly identifies common problems and can be used to guide either referrals or short-term interventions.

The Employee Assistance Program Inventory was designed as an intake and screening device for processionals that provide counselling and other services to working adults. It facilitates the rapid identification of common problems and can be used to guide either referrals or short-term interventions.

The Employee Assistance Program Inventory is the first clinical instrument specifically targeted for use in EAPs, as well as by all mental health professionals who provide counselling and other services to working adults. It facilitates rapid identification of common psychological problems and may be used to guide appropriate referrals or short-term interventions.

What It’s Best Used For

• EAP Intake Screening: Functioning as a fast, reliable diagnostic baseline during the initial intake process to enhance understanding of a client’s presenting symptoms.
• Guiding Clinical Interventions: Helping workplace counselors, therapists, and EAP administrators decide whether to route a client toward short-term internal interventions or specialized external medical referrals.
• Flagging Serious Crisis Risks: Utilizing the built-in, shaded sections on the carbonless answer sheet to immediately pinpoint critical responses that may indicate suicidal ideation.
• Profiling Broad Psychological Concerns: Generating raw scores across 10 distinct operational areas, including anxiety, depression, self-esteem problems, family problems, and the effects of substance abuse.
• Evaluating Workplace Adjustment Issues: Quantifying specific job-related stress factors, performance anxieties, or peer frictions directly affecting an employee’s professional productivity.
• Rapid Manual Scoring: Allowing practitioners to score responses, convert raw metrics to standard T-scores, and plot a complete visual profile graph in just 5 minutes using self-scoring carbonless sheets.

This valid and reliable instrument screens for major problem areas experienced by EAP clients and can be used most effectively as part of the intake process to enhance understanding of presenting symptoms.

The Employee Assistance Program Inventory assesses problems in 10 areas:

• Anxiety
• External Stressors
• Depression
• Interpersonal Conflict
• Self-Esteem Problems
• Work Adjustment
• Marital Problems
• Problem Minimization
• Family Problems
• Effects of Substance Abuse

Administration/Scoring

Clients respond to the 120 statements contained in the EAPI Item Booklet using a 4-point scale ranging from False, not at all true to Very true. Responses are entered on a self-scoring carbonless Answer Sheet. The EAPI requires 3rd-grade reading ability. Critical items that may indicate suicidal ideation are marked with shading on the carbonless bottom part of the Answer Sheet. The back of the Answer Sheet contains a Profile Form for conversion of raw scores to T scores. A graph of the profile may be drawn to show the client’s scores across scales. Scoring and profiling takes only 5 minutes.

Reliability/Validity

The EAPI Professional Manual contains information on the EAPI test materials, administration and scoring procedures, scale development, normative data and guidelines for interpretation, case illustrations, and results of studies supporting the EAPI as a reliable and valid assessment tool in EAP settings.

The EAPI was standardized and validated for use with employed adults ages 18 years and older. Normative data were collected from 1,266 employed adults who were 18-76 years old. Internal consistency reliability coefficients range from .73 to .92 with a mean of .86. The Professional Manual presents supportive evidence from eight validation studies.

This is a B-Level Product

Purchase requires a degree from an accredited 4-year college or university in Psychology, Counseling, or a closely related field PLUS satisfactory completion of coursework in Test Interpretation, Psychometrics and Measurement Theory, Educational Statistics, or a closely related area; OR license or certification from an agency that requires appropriate training and experience in the ethical and competent use of psychological tests.