BookLiza H. Gold, Daniel W. Shuman.
Summary: Offers practice guidelines for conducting workplace mental health disability evaluations. This book examines legal and ethical aspects of employment evaluations. It also offers an examination of the process of psychiatric disability development, and discusses issues specific to evaluations for Social Security and other disability benefit programs.
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
Conclusion
Appendix A: The American Academy of Psychiatry and the law: ethics guidelines for the practice of forensic psychiatry, 2005
Appendix B: The American Psychology-Law Society, Committee on Ethical Guidelines of Division 41 of the American Psychological Association and the American Academy of Forensic Psychology: specialty guidelines for forensic psychologists (1991)
Appendix C: The disability report.