EMPLOYEE ATTITUDES TO WORK-BASED COUNSELING-SERVICES

Work-based counselling services have increasingly been introduced in o rganizational settings in the 1980s and 1990s. In this paper, a study is reported of the attitudes of 213 employees of a UK Health Authority towards an existing counselling service. Questionnaires sought inform ation about attitudes to counselling, confidentiality, attitudes to th ose seeking counselling and general health. The results suggested that attitudes to work-based counselling services are predicted by employe es perceptions of those seeking counselling as trustworthy and their b eliefs about the confidentiality oi the service. The practical implica tions of these results are examined.