Mental disorder, work disability, and the law /

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 wor...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bonnie, Richard J, Monahan, John, 1946-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1997
Chicago, IL : 1997
Chicago, IL : c1997
Chicago, IL : 1997
Series:John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on mental health and development
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on mental health and development
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on mental health and development
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Epilogue / Richard J. Bonnie and John Monahan
  • 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