Resources on Disability
Report of the Taskforce on Disability and Return to Work
Assessing and Treating Psychiatric Occupational Disability: New Behavioral Health Functional Assessment Tools Facilitate Return to Work captures the first phase of the taskforce's work to develop tools and recommendations for employers and clinicians involved in a psychiatric disability claim.
- Click here to download the executive summary
- Click here to download the taskforce report
- Click here to download the appendices
Bibliography
- National Institute of Mental Health. �The Road Ahead: Research Partnerships to Transform Services.� A Report by the National Advisory Mental Health Council�s Workgroup on Services and Clinical Epidemiology Research. May 12, 2006:4.
- The Institute of Medicine. Crossing the Quality Chasm. 2001
- Kessler RC. Greenberg PE. Mickelson KD. Meneades LM. Wang PS. The Effects of Chronic Medical Conditions on Work Loss and Work Cutback. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2001; 43(3): 218-225.
- Mental Health Information and Statistics, 2001.
- Centers for Disease Control. Prevalence of Disabilities and Associated Health Conditions Among Adults�United States, 1999, 2005. www.cdc.gov/doc
- JHA Disability Fact Book. 4th ed. Portland: JHA 2006 7 Social Security Administration. Annual Statistical Report on the Social Security Disability Program, 2003. www.ssa.gov
- Goetzel Ph.D, Ron; Kevin Hawkins, PhD; Ronald J. Ozminkowski, PhD; Shaohung Wang, PhD The Health and Productivity Cost Burden of the "Top 10" Physical and Mental Health Conditions Affecting Six Large U.S. Employers in 1999. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. January 2003.
- Social Security Administration. Annual Statistical Report on the Social Security Disability Program, 2003. www.ssa.gov
- Center for Prevention and Health Services, National Business Group on Health. �Preventing Needless Work"
DMEC Employer Behavioral Risk Management Survey
Behavioral Risk Management is an important best practice area for employers. This is the strong message from surveys conducted by the Disability Management Employer Coalition (DMEC) in collaboration with the Partnership for Workplace Mental Health, which examined employer strategies and effectiveness in Behavioral Risk Management.
Media
Mental HealthWorks, the free quarterly newsletter from the Partnership published a series of articles on the Taskforce on Disability and Return to Work.
- Psychiatric Disability Report Speaks to Clinicians" Mental HealthWorks First Quarter 2008
- Partnership Surveys Employers About Psychiatric Disability; Makes 10 Key Recommendations" Mental HealthWorks Fourth Quarter 2007
- Partnership Takes On Psychiatric Disability" Mental HealthWorks Second & Third Quarter 2007