Handbook of Complex Occupational Disability Claims

Chronic back and neck pain. Whiplash. Fibromyalgia. Carpal tunnel syndrome. Intractable headaches. Depression. Anxiety and posttraumatic stress. Concussion. More than ever, the term workplace disabilities is synonymous with greater clinical and case management complexity and escalating personal, social, occupational and economic cost. Complex illnesses and injuries that defy a traditional medical management model continue to baffle medical, mental health, rehabilitation, compensation, corporate, and legal professionals despite new advances in diagnosis, prevention, and rehabilitation. The Handbook of Complex Occupational Disability Claims: Early Risk Identification, Intervention and Prevention cuts through the confusion by integrating current theories and findings into a state-of-the-art tool for critical thinking, decision making, and effective practice.

A book that synthesizes so many diverse viewpoints has the potential to influence both policy and practice across disciplines and cut through politicization of these still poorly understood conditions with evidence. The Handbook is important reading for all clinicians, professionals, and members of rehabilitation and disability management teams, across healthcare, occupational and compensation settings.

Includes comprehensive in-depth discussion of costly new wave claims such as chronic pain, repetitive strain injury, depression, anxiety, and mild traumatic brain injuries

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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.

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The Handbook of Complex Occupational Disability Claims: Early Risk Identification, Intervention and Prevention

Edited by Izabela Z. Schultz, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Robet J. Gatchel, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA

Chronic back and neck pain. Whiplash. Fibromyalgia. Carpal tunnel syndrome. Intractable headaches. Depression. Anxiety and posttraumatic stress. Concussion. More than ever, the term workplace disabilities is synonymous with greater clinical and case management complexity and escalating personal, social, occupational and economic cost. Complex illnesses and injuries that defy a traditional medical management model continue to baffle medical, mental health, rehabilitation, compensation, corporate, and legal professionals despite new advances in diagnosis, prevention, and rehabilitation. The Handbook of Complex Occupational Disability Claims: Early Risk Identification, Intervention and Prevention cuts through the confusion by integrating current theories and findings into a state-of-the-art tool for critical thinking, decision making, and effective practice.

This clear-sighted, interdisciplinary and integrative volume goes beyond cataloguing symptoms or sorting legitimate from fraudulent casesits emphasis is on early detection of risk and management to prevent injury from developing into long-term disability. Editors Schultz and Gatchel and their 49 expert contributors offer lucid evaluations of the scientific and clinical literature to repair the mind/body split that has traditionally defined this field:

• Conceptual and methodological issues in the prediction of disability.
• Biopsychosocial perspectives on the most prevalent disabling conditions, including: chronic pain syndromes, repetitive strain injuries, depression, anxiety, traumatic brain injury, and posttraumatic stressdisorder.
• Application of clinical findings to the rehabilitation, disability management, occupational and compensation arenas, and return-to-work practices.
• In-depth discussion of the relationship between impairment and work disability.

• Specific evidence-based early intervention approaches for workers and patients at risk. A book that synthesizes so many diverse viewpoints has the potential to influence both policy and practice across disciplines and cut through politicization of these still poorly understood conditions with evidence. The Handbook is important reading for all clinicians, professionals, and members of rehabilitation and disability management teams, across healthcare, occupational and compensation settings.

  Inhalt
  Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Prediction of Disability.- Do We Have a Disability Epidemic?.- Impairment and Occupational Disability in Research and Practice.- Models of Diagnosis and Rehabilitation in Musculoskeletal Pain-Related Occupational Disability.- Readiness for Return to Work Following Injury or Illness.- Prediction of Occupational Disability.- Musculoskeletal Injury.- Outcome Measures in Prediction of Occupational Disability.- Tailoring Psychosocial Treatment for Patients with Occupational Disability.- Prediction of Disability in Pain-Related and Psychological Conditions.- Determinants of Occupational Disability Following a Low Back Injury.- Biopsychosocial Multivariate Predictive Model of Occupational Low Back Disability.- Whiplash and Neck Pain-Related Disability.- Disability in Fibromyalgia.- Musculoskeletal Disorders,Disability, and Return-to-Work (Repetitive Strain).- Predicting Disability from Headache.- Prediction of Disability after Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.- Prediction of Vocational Functioning from Neuropsychological Data.- The Role of Individual Factors in Predicting Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.- Posttraumatic Stress Disability after Motor Vehicle Accidents.- Disability Following Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.- The Prediction of Occupational Disability Related to Depressive and Anxiety Disorders.- Application of Disability Prediction in Compensation, Health Care, and Occupational Contexts.- Secondary Prevention in Health-Care and Occupational Settings in Musculoskeletal Conditions Focusing on Low Back Pain.- Biopsychosocial Factors in Complex Claims for Disability Compensation.- Secondary Gains and Losses in the Medicolegal Setting.- Evidence-Informed Best Practices for Injured Workers at Risk for Disability at the Subacute Stage.- Early Intervention with At-Risk Groups.- Early Interventions for At Risk Patients with Spinal Pain.- Working with the Employer.- An Early Screening and Intervention Model for Acute and Subacute Low Back Pain.- The CtdMAP™ Intervention Program© for Musculoskeletal Disorders.- Where are We Now and Where are We…