Evaluating Mental Health Disability in the Workplace: Model, Process, and Analysis
322Evaluating Mental Health Disability in the Workplace: Model, Process, and Analysis
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Overview
Key features of the book:
• A robust assessment model of psychological disability in the workplace
• Practice guidelines for conducting workplace mental health disability evaluations
• Legal and ethical aspects of employment evaluations, especially as they differ from clinical procedure
• Examination of the process of psychiatric disability development
• Issues specific to evaluations for Social Security, Workers’ Compensation, and other disability benefit programs
• Review of relevant administrative and case law.
As an introduction to these complex issues or for the further improvement of evaluation skills, Evaluating Mental Health Disability in the Workplace is a timely reference for psychiatrists, psychologists, forensic mental health specialists, and attorneys in this field.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781489982841 |
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Publisher: | Springer New York |
Publication date: | 10/07/2014 |
Edition description: | 2009 |
Pages: | 322 |
Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d) |
About the Author
Daniel W. Shuman, J.D., is the M.D. Anderson Foundation Endowed Professor of Health Law at Southern Methodist University School of Law. In addition, Dr. Shuman serves as an adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School and an adjunct Professor of Psychology at the University of North Texas. He is member of the American Law Institute and former chair of the Association of American Law Schools sections on Law and Mental Disability and Law and Medicine. Prior to joining the faculty of the SMU School of Law, he served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Arizona and a legal services attorney in Tucson, Arizona. Dr. Shuman is the author of more than 5 books and more than sixty articles and book chapters. His 1986 release, Psychiatric and Psychological Evidence, was the winner of the 1988 American Psychiatric Association's Manfred S. Guttmacher Award.