Accommodating Employees and Job Applicants with Psychiatric Disabilities In the Workplace.Accommodating Employees and Job Applicants with Psychiatric Disabilities In the Workplace Produced by People With Disabilities Foundation (www.pwdf.org) 2004 (Revised Edition), VHS (Video Home System) A half-inch, analog videocassette recorder (VCR) format introduced by JVC in 1976 to compete with Sony's Betamax, introduced a year earlier. $129.95, DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. $144.95 Accommodating Employees and Job Applicants with Psychiatric Disabilities in the Workplace is a video that summarizes the effects of employment law on individuals with mental health disabilities. The video identifies key concepts of the Americans with Disabilities Act Americans with Disabilities Act, U.S. civil-rights law, enacted 1990, that forbids discrimination of various sorts against persons with physical or mental handicaps. (ADA Ada, city, United States Ada (ā`ə), city (1990 pop. 15,820), seat of Pontotoc co., S central Okla.; inc. 1904. It is a large cattle market and the center of a rich oil and ranch area. ) and applies the concepts to six fictitious employment scenarios involving individuals with mental disabilities. The viewer gains a cursory understanding of the major mental illness categories, essential functions, reasonable accommodations reasonable accommodations A standard of providing for a worker's or customer's needs, as mandated by the ADA, which requires that a business make appropriate changes in the environment to accommodate those with mental or physical disabilities as long as such , undue hardships, disclosure requirements, and employee harassment implications. Each of the six scenarios follows a similar format. An employee or job applicant is identified as living with a particular mental health disability and is confronted with the need to request an accommodation in order to maintain/secure employment. For example, an office worker with mental illness needs to request an accommodation in her work schedule to permit her to attend regular psychiatric appointments. A clinical psychologist then provides a description of the characterizations of the identified mental illness per the DSM-IV DSM-IV Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV). This reference book, published by the American Psychiatric Association, is the diagnostic standard for most mental health professionals in the United States. and an attorney discusses the validity of the request for a reasonable accommodation Reasonable accommodation is a legal term used in Canada, which is the legal obligation to modify a law or a norm when it is contrary to fundamental rights stipulated in Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. . The video ends with a summary of the six scenarios including further discussion of undue hardships to employers and their requirements under law to prevent employee harassment. The video would serve as an introduction to the application of the ADA as it relates to employment for rehabilitation counselors, employers, and students; however, its greatest value would be to employees/job seekers living with mental disabilities. The video suggests a number of accommodations that could be requested by individuals with mental health disabilities to enable employment. Accommodations include alterations to work schedules, environments, and duties. The video is 35 minutes in length and easily viewable in a sitting. Joe Weilacher Director, Community Services Skills of Central Pennsylvania, Inc. |
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