Baltimore Employee Assistance Program Expert Featured In Graduate Social Work Textbook

Online, October 20, 2010 (Newswire.com) - The third edition of a well-regarded textbook, Group Work with Populations at Risk, used by instructors and students in hundreds of graduate- level occupational social work programs across the U.S., includes a new chapter by Baltimore-based Employee Assistance Program (EAP) expert Melissa Back Tamburo, Ph.D., LCSW-C, CEAP.

In her chapter entitled, "Group Work in the Workplace Setting," Tamburo draws on extensive research and her own professional experiences as an EAP professional, social worker, and college professor to describe the most effective group counseling techniques and strategies available to help employees today.

"Work plays such a central role in our lives, that it is often the most effective environment in which to provide preventative and supportive services to employees before problems impact their work", said Dr. Tamburo. As one example, Dr. Tamburo discusses the success she had leading a support group, through her work with Business Health Services, to help employees cope better with caring for elderly family members.

Dr. Tamburo has 20 years experience in the employee assistance and occupational social work fields. For the past 5 years she has held several senior management positions at Business Health Services, a national EAP provider based in Baltimore. Dr. Tamburo is also an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maryland School of Social Work and teaches courses in employee assistance program administration and clinical supervision.

The book, Group Work with Populations at Risk, 3rd edition by Geoffrey L. Grieff and Paul Ephross (Oxford University Press, 2010) is available at the University of Maryland School of Social Work bookstore and through Amazon.com.