The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act in Disability Evaluations

摘要: Mental health professionals may perform disability evaluations for cases involving the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990. The ADA requires an employee to demonstrate substantial limitation in one or more major life activities order invoke ADA’s protection. Amendments (ADAAA) 2008 significantly expanded coverage, such that individuals will meet statutory requirements be considered “disabled” under ADA. Clinicians should have a basic understanding recently amended so they can help patients who need protection continue working. Forensic experts also asked assist cases, as expert witnesses consultants, before disputes escalated litigation. mental professional determine how employee’s psychiatric impairment (if any) affects occupational functioning, whether poses direct threat workplace, and any reasonable accommodations enable worker overcome functional impairments performing his her job. With enactment ADAAA publication Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s final interpretive rules 2011, demand assistance from behavioral likely increase next several years.