Evaluating Mental Health Disability in the Workplace: Model, Process, and Analysis

by Daniel W Shuman, Liza H. Gold, Daniel W. Shuman

Book Overview

As many as one in four adults in the workforce will suffer from psychiatric illness in a given year. Such illness can have serious consequences -- job loss, lawsuits, workplace violence--yet the effects of mental health issues on job functioning are rarely covered in clinical training. In addition, clinicians are often asked to provide opinions on an employee's fitness for work or an evaluation for disability benefits, only to find themselves embroiled...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441901515
• ISBN13: 9781441901514
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"