Clinical Guide to Mental Disability Evaluations

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxv

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2. General Issues in Mental Health Disability Evaluations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Mental Health Disability: A Model for Assessment

      • Liza H. Gold

      Pages 3-35

   3. Legal and Ethical Issues in Providing Mental Health Disability Evaluations

      • Donna L. Vanderpool

      Pages 37-74

   4. What Should I Do? When Patients Seek Disability Documentation

      • Andrew P. Levin

      Pages 75-94

   5. Weighing Work Accommodations, Work Withdrawal, and Return to Work

      • Cheryl D. Wills

      Pages 95-126

   6. Psychological Testing in Workplace Disability Evaluations

      • William J. Stejskal

      Pages 127-154

   7. Malingering and Mental Health Disability Evaluations

      • Charles L. Scott, Barbara McDermott

      Pages 155-182

3. Specific Types of Mental Health Disability Evaluations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183

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   2. Social Security Disability Income Claims: Treating Mental Health Clinicians and Consultative Mental Health Examiners

      • C. Donald Williams

      Pages 185-213

   3. Workers’ Compensation Evaluations

      • Albert M. Drukteinis

      Pages 215-239

   4. Long-Term Disability Evaluations for Private Insurers

      • Stuart A. Anfang, Barry W. Wall

      Pages 241-257

   5. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act in Disability Evaluations

      • Patricia R. Recupero, Samara E. Harms

      Pages 259-289

   6. Workplace Violence Evaluations and the ADA

      • Ronald Schouten

      Pages 291-308

   7. Fitness-for-Duty Evaluations

      • Robert M. Wettstein

      Pages 309-336

   8. Fitness-for-Duty Evaluations of Physicians and Health Care Professionals: Treating Providers and Protecting the Public

      • Marilyn Price, Donald J. Meyer

      Pages 337-367

   9. Fitness-for-Duty of Law Enforcement Officers

      • Debra A. Pinals, Marilyn Price

      Pages 369-392

4. Back Matter

   Pages 393-394

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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 professionals receive little to no training in conducting assessments that focus on disability and disability management, and often do not understand the implications and risks of providing this information, especially without conducting what are often specialized evaluations. Clinical Guide to Mental Health Disability Evaluations is geared for general mental health practitioners, providing them with the basic information needed to competently provide the various types of disability evaluations. It also provides enough information to inform forensic mental health providers in conducting more specialized evaluations.

• Americans with disabilities act evaluations
• Behavioral Fitness for duty evaluations
• Disability
• Disability Evaluations
• Fitness for duty evaluations
• Legal liability for performing disability evaluations
• Mental health disability evaluations
• Mental health evaluations
• Psychiatric disability evaluations
• Psychological disability evaluations
• Worker's Compensation

From the reviews:

“The book begins by addressing some of the most basic questions about how to handle requests for disability evaluations and general assessment of the issues, and flows methodically through evaluative issues … . Chapters end with a concise, but relevant, reference section, as well as sections of key points and conclusions. … can offer clinicians the opportunity to serve their patients and everyone else involved in these procedures more productively and comprehensively.” (Steven T. Herron, Doody’s Book Reviews, June, 2013)

• , Department of Psychiatry, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA

  Liza H. Gold

• PRMS, Inc., Risk Management, Arlington, USA

  Donna L. Vanderpool

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