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As many as one in four adults in the workforce will suffer from psychiatric illness in a given year. This book approaches this topic from a dual perspective by presenting a unique collaboration between a clinical professor of psychiatry and a legal expert.

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Introduction.-Taking the High Road: Ethics and Practice in Employment Evaluations.-Employment Evaluations and the Law.-Why We Work: Psychological Meaning and Effects.-Psychiatric Disorders, Functional Impairment, and the Workplace.-Psychiatric Disability: A Model for Assessment.-Practice Guidelines for Mental Health Disability Evaluations in the Workplace.-The Maze of Disability Benefit Programs: Social Security Disability, Workers´ Compensation, and Private Disability Insurance.-Working with Disabilities: The Americans with Disabilities Act.-Fitness-for-Duty Evaluations.-Conclusion.-Appendix I: The American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law: Ethics Guidelines for the Practice of Forensic Psychiatry, 2005.-Appendix II: The American Psychology-Law Society, Committee on Ethical Guidelines of Division 41 of the American Psychological Association and the American Academy of Forensic Psychology: Specialty Guidelines for Forensic Psychologists, 1991.-Appendix III: The Disability Report.-References.-Legal citations

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From the reviews: "Liza H. Gold and Daniel W. Shuman have written an extremely comprehensive and detailed volume addressing all aspects of the complex and often controversial field of evaluating claims of mental health disability. The work serves as a treatise, a textbook, and a manual. ... Evaluating Mental Health Disability in the Workplace is a tour-de-force. ... For a practitioner new to this field, this is a text to be read ... as well as referred to for advice regarding specific questions and issues." (David M. Reiss, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 55 (5), February, 2010)

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