Behavioral health disability : innovations in prevention and management / Pamela A. Warren, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Warren, Pamela A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clinical psychology.

Psychiatry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2011.

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Behavioral Health Disability Innovations in Prevention and Management Pamela A. Warren It’s a frequent occurrence: a sick worker is treated for physical symptoms, but receives little care for the accompanying psychological problems. The employee is put on ineffective medication, is suspected of malingering, and never fully recovers. The authors of the Behavioral Health Disability attribute this no-win situation to systemic misunderstandings between medical and mental health providers, employers, and insurers—often despite earnest efforts toward integrative care. In its place, they set out a practical, evidence-based framework not only for more accurate evaluation and more effective treatment of conditions, but also better collaboration across specialties, with the legal and insurance systems, and with the workplace, resulting in fewer mental health disability claims, fewer “maintenance” prescriptions, lower costs, and ultimately better outcomes for clients. This book: • Represents the viewpoints of multiple treating professionals—primary care, occupational medicine, psychology, psychiatry, and rehabilitation medicine—as well as legal, employer, and insurer perspectives. • Identifies strengths and weaknesses in standard assessment, treatment, or policy for each specialty. • Examines referral, documentation, and compliance issues. • Describes the medicalization of psychosocial concerns, and how it can be avoided. • Includes strategies for addressing the individual’s return to work. • Offers recommendations for immediate and long-term improvements in disability case management. The Behavioral Health Disability provides groundbreaking guidance for the spectrum of professionals involved in psychiatric disability cases, among them health and clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, primary care physicians and rehabilitation specialists, clinical social workers, nurses, and insurance companies.

Contents:

Overview of the scope of psychological and behavioral health disability

Overview of the lack of coordination of treatment

Overview of lack of coordination among all professionals involved in the psychological and behavioral health disability process

True psychological concerns versus psycho-social concerns

Comorbidity and psychological concerns

present multiple perspectives from different types of professionals involved in the psychological and disability process. -Primary Care Medicine and Psychological and Behavioral Health Disability

Epidemiological and prevalence of psychological and behavioral health concerns in primary care medicine

Discussion of usual care treatment process: strengths and weaknesses

Determining current psychological functioning: strengths and weaknesses

Referral and coordination of treatment considerations: strengths and weakness in current process

Medicalization: The process of taking everyday occurrences and identifying them as medical concerns

Malingering and symptom exaggeration

Patient compliance issues: limitations and strategies for improved management

Appropriate documentation of limitations in functioning

Treatment outcomes: Strategies for addressing individual’s return to work

Occupational Medicine

Epidemiological and prevalence of psychological and behavioral health concerns in Occupational Medicine

Symptom exaggeration and malingering

Psychology

Epidemiological and prevalence of psychological and behavioral health concerns in Clinical Psychology

Appropriate psychological testing

Symptom exaggeration and Malingering

Psychiatry

Epidemiological and prevalence of psychological and behavioral health concerns in Psychiatry- Discussion of usual care treatment process: strengths and weaknesses

Determining current psychiatric functioning: strengths and weaknesses

Psychological testing

Rehabilitation

Epidemiological and prevalence of psychological and behavioral health concerns in Psychiatry

Rehabilitation assessment and testing

Legal Perspective

Plaintiff versus defense perspective on psychological and behavioral health disability

State legislative considerations

Federal considerations: FMLA and ADA

HIPAA limitations with disability

Legal perspective in defining appropriate outcome

Employer Perspective

Maintaining a productive workplace

Workplace absence policy: Strengths and weakness in current employer policies

Problematic workplace behaviors that serve as catalysts for filing for a psychological disability claim

Obtaining required documentation: strengths and weaknesses in current process

Gaps in communication with treating professionals

Appropriate workplace accommodations

Helping the employee stay at work

The insurer and psychological/behavioral health disability

Insurer perspective

Case management perspective

Current issues in providing insurance coverage for psychological, behavioral health, and co-morbid claims

Current identified drivers of psychological disability claims

Strategies for effective management

Future Directions

Summarization/recap

Recommendations for initiating immediate change in the process

Implications for long-term change

Implications for future research.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-97170-0

9786612971709

0-387-09814-3

OCLC:

747427284