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Clinical Guide to Mental Disability Evaluations.
Disability evaluations are the most common clinical mental health evaluations conducted for nontreatment purposes. They place mental health professionals in the role of communicating information that is typically confidential to administrative and legal systems. Unfortunately, mental health professi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht :
Springer,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Clinical Guide to Mental Disability Evaluations; Acknowledgments; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Part I General Issues in Mental HealthDisability Evaluations; 1 Mental Health DisabilityMental Health Disability: A Model for Assessment; Introduction; Case Example; Diagnosis, Impairment, and Disability: A Complicated Relationship; Disability: The Balance Between Internal and External Circumstances; Case Formulation, Causation, and the FAQs of Disability Evaluations; The Work CapacityWork Capacity Model: Factors in the Equation.
- Work CapacityWork Capacity Models: Patterns of Disability DevelopmentThe Work CapacityWork Capacity Model: Advantages and Disadvantages; Applying the Work CapacityWork Capacity Model to the FAQs of Disability Evaluations; The Work CapacityWork Capacity Model and Clinical Considerations; Malingering and Motivation: Does the Work Capacity Work Capacity Model Inform These Opinions?; Cultural and Ethnic Issues; Conclusion; Key Points; Appendix I: Possible Sources of Collateral Information in Disability Evaluations; Appendix II: Suggested Disability Report Format; References.
- 2 Legal and Ethical Issues in Providing Mental Health Disability EvaluationsIntroduction; Patients or Evaluees; The Mental Health Disability Evaluation; LiabilityLiability, While Limited, Is Increasing; Dual Roles; Qualified Mental Health Clinicians; Informed ConsentInformed Consent; ConfidentialityConfidentiality; Obligation to Maintain ConfidentialityConfidentiality; Have the Evaluee Authorize Release of Information; Release Only the MinimumMinimum NecessaryNecessary; Evolving Legal DutiesLegal Duties; Duties Owed
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- to Evaluees Vary by Jurisdiction.
- Duty to Protect Evaluee's ConfidentialityConfidentialityCase Law Example I; Case Law Example II; Case Law Example III; Duty to Warn or Protect; Case Law Example IV; Duty to Not Harm the Evaluee; Case Law Example V; Duty to Diagnose; Duty to Notify Evaluee of a Serious Medical Condition; LiabilityLiability Exposure; Case Law Example VI; Case Law Example VII; State Licensing Boards and Disability Evaluations; Other Types of Administrative ActionsAdministrative Actions; Conclusion; Appendix I: Glossary of Legal TermsAppendix I: Glossary of Legal Terms.
- Appendix II: IME Physician LiabilityAppendix II: IME Physician LiabilitySec32; References; 3 What Should I Do? When Patients Seek DisabilityDisability Documentation; Introduction; Case Example; Mental Health DisabilityDisability Claims; Responding to Requests to Certify DisabilityDisability: A Process, Not an Event; Initiation of the DisabilityDisability Process and Clinicians' Responses; Discussion of the Meaning of the Request and Possible Outcomes; Educating the Patient About the Process and Confidentiality; Gathering Relevant Clinical Information.