Disability and Return to Work
Mental illness causes more days of work loss and work impairment than most other chronic conditions, such as diabetes, asthma, or arthritis, according to the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 1 Researchers estimate that 36 million productive workdays are lost each year in the United States because of behavioral health disorders.2
The Partnership has taken a major step toward remedying that situation by developing and producing Assessing and Treating Psychiatric Occupational Disability: New Behavioral Health Functional Assessment Tools Facilitate Return to Work. The report is just part of a major undertaking by the Partnership to collaborate with all stakeholders of psychiatric disability and develop procedures that will hasten an employee's recovery of function from a psychiatric illness and facilitate his or her return to work.
Click here to download the executive summary
Click here to download the full taskforce report
Click here to download the appendices
1 Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. January 2003
2 Mental Health Information and Statistics, 2001. mhsource.com/resource/mh.html
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