Millions of people with psychiatric disorders are competitively employed in the United States labor force.At any given time, some employees with mental health problems may want or need to leave the workplace due to these disorders, either temporarily or permanently; others want to remain at or return to work despite mental health impairments. The administrative and legal employment policies and decisions governing these employment actions require medical documentation of psychiatric impairment and disability. Therefore, when occupational circumstances requiring evaluation of psychiatric impairment and disability arise, mental health professionals are called upon to conduct evaluations and document occupational impairments. Clinicians at all levels of training are bound to be asked to provide some form of disability evaluation for individuals who have been or still are competitively employed.

Mental Health Disability: A Model for Assessment.- Legal and Ethical Issues in Providing Mental Health Disability Evaluations.- What should I do? When Patients Seek Disability Documentation.- Weighing Work Accommodations, Work Withdrawal, and Return to Work.- Psychological Testing in Workplace Disability Evaluations.- Malingering and Mental Health Disability Evaluations.- Social Security Disability Insurance Evaluations: Treating Clinicians and Consultative Examiners.- Workers' Compensation Evaluations.- Long-term Disability Evaluations for Private Insurers.- The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act in Disability Evaluations.- Workplace Violence Evaluations and the Americans with Disabilities Act.- Fitness for Duty Evaluations.- Fitness for Duty Evaluations of Physicians and Health Care Professionals: Treating Providers and Protecting the Public.- Fitness for Duty Evaluations of Law Enforcement Officers.