Evaluating Mental Health Disability in the Workplace Model, Process, and Analysis /

• Main Authors: Gold, Liza H. (Author), Shuman, Daniel W. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer US, 2009.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Personnel management.; Psychiatry.; Law.; Clinical psychology.; Clinical Psychology.; Law, general.; Human Resource Management.

As many as one in four adults in the workforce will suffer from psychiatric illness in a given year. Such illness can have serious consequences -- job loss, lawsuits, workplace violence—yet the effects of mental health issues on job functioning are rarely covered in clinical training. In addition, c...

Table of Contents:

• Taking the High Road: Ethics and Practice in Disability and Disability-Related Evaluations
• Employment Evaluations and the Law
• Why We Work: Psychological Meaning and Effects
• Psychiatric Disorders, Functional Impairment, and the Workplace
• Psychiatric Disability: A Model for Assessment
• Practice Guidelines for Mental Health Disability Evaluations in the Workplace
• The Maze of Disability Benefit Programs: Social Security Disability, Workers’ Compensation, and Private Disability Insurance
• Working with Disabilities: The Americans with Disabilities Act
• Fitness-for-Duty Evaluations.