ABSTRACT
Education is essential for a profession (Masi, 2011). The factual foundation of the efficacy of Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) comes through its knowledge areas. Unfortunately, the knowledge base that many practicing professionals in the EAP field possess is not the specific type of knowledge that would help accelerate EAPs from a field of practice to an actual profession. Most EAP professionals learn from working on the job, not through conceptual understanding of the field. Many EAP professionals have never taken an academic course in EAPs (Jacobson & Attridge, 2010; Masi & Tisone, 2010).
