Clinical Guide to Mental Disability Evaluations

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Mental Health Disability: A Model for Assessment....Pages 3-35
Legal and Ethical Issues in Providing Mental Health Disability Evaluations....Pages 37-74
What Should I Do? When Patients Seek Disability Documentation....Pages 75-94
Weighing Work Accommodations, Work Withdrawal, and Return to Work....Pages 95-126
Psychological Testing in Workplace Disability Evaluations....Pages 127-154
Malingering and Mental Health Disability Evaluations....Pages 155-182
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Social Security Disability Income Claims: Treating Mental Health Clinicians and Consultative Mental Health Examiners....Pages 185-213
Workers’ Compensation Evaluations....Pages 215-239
Long-Term Disability Evaluations for Private Insurers....Pages 241-257
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act in Disability Evaluations....Pages 259-289
Workplace Violence Evaluations and the ADA....Pages 291-308
Fitness-for-Duty Evaluations....Pages 309-336
Fitness-for-Duty Evaluations of Physicians and Health Care Professionals: Treating Providers and Protecting the Public....Pages 337-367
Fitness-for-Duty of Law Enforcement Officers....Pages 369-392
Back Matter....Pages 393-394