Work Accommodation and Retention in Mental Health

I. Conceptual Issues in Job Accommodation in Mental Health.- 1. Law and job accommodation in mental health disability.- 2. Mental health, neurological impairments and job accommodation: a legal perspective.- 3. Disability epidemic in mental health: epidemiological and economic impact of mental health disorders in the workplace.- 4. Effects of stigma and discrimination on the economic employment outcomes of persons with mental health disorders.- II. Mental health disorders and work functioning.- 5. Relationship between psychological impairment and occupational disability: 6. Prediction of vocational outcomes in mental health.- 7. Serious mental illness and work.- 8. Depression and work performance.- 9. Anxiety disorders and work performance.- 10. Brain injuries and work performance.- 11. Personality disorders and work performance.- 12. Learning and Attention Deficit disorders and work performance: (TBA).- III. Employment interventions for persons with mental health disorders.- 13. Integration of mental health and vocational services.- 14. Employment interventions for persons with serious mental illness.- 15. Employment interventions in depression and anxiety disorders.- 16. Employment interventions for persons with cognitive disorders.- 17. Systematic review of psychological return to work interventions for persons with mental health problems.- 18. Company-level interventions in mental health.- IV. Barriers and facilitators of job accommodations in the workplace.- 19. Employer attitudes towards accommodations in mental health disability.- 20. Mental health literacy and stigma associated with depression in the working population.- 21. Systemic barriers and facilitators to job accommodations in mental health: experts' consensus.- V. Evidence-informed practice in job accommodation.- 22. Job accommodation as a social process: 23. Evidentiary support for best practices in job accommodation in mental health: macrosystems, employer-level and employee-level interventions.-

Dr. Izabela Schultz is a clinical and rehabilitation psychologist specializing in medico-legal and vocational aspects of psychological, neuropsychological and pain-related disability, both in her academic research and in her forensic practice. She is doubly Board-certified and holds the Diplomate distinctions of the American Board of Professional Psychology, in Clinical Psychology and of the American Board of Vocational Experts.

Dr. Schultz is Professor in the Counselling Psychology Program at the University of British Columbia where she also serves as Director of the newly formed graduate program in Vocational Rehabilitation Counselling. She has presented, taught and published extensively in the United States, Canada, and internationally in the area of psychosocial, vocational and psycho-legal aspects of disability. Her particular research expertise is in determination of causation of psychological disability, in multivariate prediction of occupational disability, early intervention with high risk workers and employment retention of employees with complex disabilities including mental health, brain injury and pain. She has provided expert court testimony on psychological and neuropsychological matters.

Dr. Schultz's two previous books, Psychological Injuries at Trial (2003) and Handbook of Complex Occupational Disability Claims (2005), have contributed to an evolution of the paradigm in the occupational disability field-from medical to biopsychosocial model.

Dr. Schultz is currently co-chair of the American Psychological Association's Task Force on Guidelines for Assessment and Treatment of Persons with Disabilities, and is on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals.



E. Sally Rogers is Director of Research at the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University where she had been conducting mental health and vocational research since 1981. The Center was founded under the direction of

From the reviews: "This book addresses how mental health issues affect employee productivity, unemployment, and underemployment, emphasizing the importance of vocational rehabilitation and job accommodation. ... The primary target audience includes occupational and rehabilitation physicians, vocational rehabilitation providers, occupational therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, neuropsychologists, and social workers who assist individuals with mental health disabilities to get and keep work. ... This book addresses an employment problem, offering practical suggestions to increase job productivity." (Gary B. Kaniuk, Doody's Review Service, April, 2011)