Chapter 17.Psychiatric Disability
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Determinations of psychiatric disability are regularly included in conjunction with claims of mental injury and damages. In fact, the evaluation of psychiatric disability is one of the most common requests made of general and forensic psychiatrists and nonpsychiatric clinicians. Mental disorders do not automatically equate to disability; therefore, psychiatric disability determinations involve nonmedical and vocational considerations. This chapter addresses various categories of functional impairments that can result in disability and discusses how to probe those categories and corroborate functional limitations in the context of a person’s history. The chapter also discusses the difference in scope in the assessment of disability between a treating psychiatrist and forensic psychiatrist and provides a basic guideline to assess a patient’s disability objectively.
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