Joel B. Bennett

TL;DR: The workplace offers advantages as a setting for interventions that result in primary prevention of alcohol abuse, and programs have the potential to reach broad audiences and populations that would otherwise not receive prevention programs and, thereby, benefit both the employee and employer.

TL;DR: In this paper, focus groups and survey data from both trained and untrained municipal employees were used to assess perceptions related to change (e.g., role ambiguity) and transfer climate that constrained or facilitated their use of Total Quality (TQ) training.

TL;DR: Team Awareness training targets work group social health, aligns with employee assistance efforts, and contributes to reductions in problem drinking, and employers should consider the use of prevention programming as an enhancement to standard drug-free workplace efforts.

TL;DR: In this paper, a psychometric measure of power and influence as personality traits was developed according to conceptual distinctions previously made by social scientists, and factor analyses from different samples replicated a distinction between the need for power (nPower), assessing an egoistic striving for position, and the need to influence (nInfluence), assessing a desire to persuade and affect others.

TL;DR: An adaptation methodology was developed by integrating curricula from a previous evidence-based program with research on resilience and input from stakeholders, such as young restaurant workers, their managers, trainers, and subject matter experts.