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Evaluating mental health disability in the workplace : model, process, and analysis /

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 Socia...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gold, Liza H., 1958-
Otros Autores: Shuman, Daniel W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York ; London : Springer, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.