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Additional authors

1. Bonnie, Richard J.
2. Monahan, John, 1946-

Description

1. viii, 308 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

1. A barrage of "handbooks" and "resource manuals" aimed at employers and legal practitioners on the employment rights of people with disabilities has begun to appear. Until now, however, there has been no serious book-length scholarly treatment of how mental disorder can affect work, how work can affect mental disorder, and the role of law in addressing employment discrimination based on mental rather than physical disability. In Mental Disorder, Work Disability and the Law, the editors bring together original work by leading scholars who have studied mental disorder and work disability from the fields of sociology, psychology, psychiatry, law, and economics. The authors' contributions build upon one another to create the first integrated account of the important policy issues at stake when law deals with the rights of mentally disordered citizens to work when they can, and to receive benefits when they are unable. This book will be of great value to scholars in law and the mental health professions, and to policy makers and the administrators of disability programs.

Series statement

1. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on mental health and development

Uniform title

1. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on mental health and development

Subject

1. People with mental disabilities > Employment > Law and legislation > United States
2. Disability evaluation > Law and legislation > United States
3. Mental illness
4. Disability evaluation
5. Employment (Economic theory)
6. Mental Disorders
7. Disability Evaluation
8. Employment
9. mental disorders
10. employing
11. Mental illness
12. Disability evaluation
13. Disability evaluation > Law and legislation
14. People with mental disabilities > Employment > Law and legislation
15. United States

Genre/Form

1. Legislation
2. Lois et codes.

Contents

1. Work disability and the fabric of mental health law : an introduction / Richard J. Bonnie -- Serious and severe mental illness and work : what do we know? / Laura J. Milazzo-Sayre, Marilyn J. Henderson and Ronald W. Manderscheid -- Employment patterns among persons with and without mental conditions / Edward H. Yelin and Miriam G. Cisternas -- "No other way to go" : pathways to disability income application among persons with severe persistent mental illness / Sue E. Estroff [and others] -- Mental disorders, work, and choice / John S. Strauss and Larry Davidson.
2. Economic opportunities and disincentives for people with mental illness / Richard Warner and Paul Polak -- Mental disabilities and the disability fabric / Ellen Smith Pryor -- The Americans with Disabilities Act, mental disability, and work / Christopher G. Bell -- Equality and difference in the ADA : unintended consequences for employment of people with mental health disabilities / Jean Campbell and Caroline L. Kaufman -- Making the ADA work for the people with psychiatric disabilities / Laura Lee Hall -- Mental disabilities, equal opportunity, and the ADA / Norman Daniels.
3. Epilogue / Richard J. Bonnie and John Monahan.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.