Handbook of Behavioral Health Disability Management

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Warren, Pamela A. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Health psychology.; Rehabilitation.; Psychotherapy.; Counseling.; Occupational medicine.; Health Psychology.; Psychotherapy and Counseling.; Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine.

This authoritative handbook provides an up-to-date, interdisciplinary understanding of behavioral health issues and their management within disability systems. It examines today's complex mismatches between providers, pinpointing related obstacles to relevant diagnosis, referrals, and care whi...

Table of Contents:

• A critique of the behavioral health disability system
• Prevalence of behavioral health concerns and systemic issues in disability treatment and management
• Effective psychological evaluation and management of behavioral health concerns
• Assessment of psychosocial contributions to disability
• Psychiatric issues in behavioral health disability
• The occupational medicine perspective on behavioral health concerns: biopsychosocial perspective
• The occupational medicine perspective on behavioral health: practical matters
• Physical therapy treatment and the impact of behavioral health concerns
• Vocational rehabilitation considerations for mental health impairments in the workplace
• Case management and behavioral health disability
• Behavioral health and disability insurance: a perspective
• The legal system and behavioral health
• Navigating the system for injured or ill persons on disability
• State and federal disability systems related to behavioral health
• Implications of ADAAA, ACA/ObamaCare, DSM-5, and ICD-10 for persons with behavioral health disability
• Developing behavioral health treatment and disability standards
• Symptom validity, exaggeration, and malingering
• Employee Assistance Programs and work retention/return to work
• Neuroplasticity: impact on resiliency and health
• Co-morbidity and the disability process
• Concluding remarks.