ABSTRACT
Employee counselors reach out to all employees. Intervention must be available for chemical dependency, marriage and family problems, and the seemingly boundless issues facing the worker and his or her family members in the twenty-first century. The product that an employee counselor sells—psychotherapy, chemical dependency treatment, and referral—is not enough. Depending on the discipline one is operating from and the state one is operating within, applicable ethics and risk factors may supercede confidentiality. A situation very common to employee counselors occurs when an employee is referred for substance abuse and the employer needs to know that the employee is addressing his or her needs in therapy and overcoming the problem. Psychological studies are beginning to reveal a correlation between violence in television, the movies, and music and an increase in the violence of the observer and/or hearer. Patriots, humanitarians, nationalists, pioneers, landholders, farmers, and laborers have all used violence as a means to a higher end.
