Behavioral Health Disability Innovations in Prevention and Management

Overview of the scope of psychological and behavioral health disability.- Overview of the lack of coordination of treatment.- Overview of lack of coordination among all professionals involved in the psychological and behavioral health disability process.- True psychological concerns versus psycho-social concerns.- Comorbidity and psychological concerns.- present multiple perspectives from different types of professionals involved in the psychological and disability process. -Primary Care Medicine and Psychological and Behavioral Health Disability.- Epidemiological and prevalence of psychological and behavioral health concerns in primary care medicine.- Discussion of usual care treatment process: strengths and weaknesses.- Determining current psychological functioning: strengths and weaknesses.- Referral and coordination of treatment considerations: strengths and weakness in current process.- Medicalization: The process of taking everyday occurrences and identifying them as medical concerns.- Malingering and symptom exaggeration.- Patient compliance issues: limitations and strategies for improved management.- Appropriate documentation of limitations in functioning.- Treatment outcomes: Strategies for addressing individual’s return to work.- Occupational Medicine.- Epidemiological and prevalence of psychological and behavioral health concerns in Occupational Medicine.- Discussion of usual care treatment process: strengths and weaknesses.- Determining current psychological functioning: strengths and weaknesses.- Referral and coordination of treatment considerations: strengths and weakness in current process.- Medicalization: The process of taking everyday occurrences and identifying them as medical concerns.- Symptom exaggeration and malingering.- Patient compliance issues: limitations and strategies for improved management.- Appropriate documentation of limitations in functioning.- Treatment outcomes: Strategies for addressing individual’s return to work.-Psychology.- Epidemiological and prevalence of psychological and behavioral health concerns in Clinical Psychology.- Discussion of usual care treatment process: strengths and weaknesses.- Determining current psychological functioning: strengths and weaknesses.- Appropriate psychological testing.- Symptom exaggeration and Malingering.- Referral and coordination of treatment considerations: strengths and weakness in current process.- Medicalization: The process of taking everyday occurrences and identifying them as medical concerns.- Patient compliance issues: limitations and strategies for improved management.- Appropriate documentation of limitations in functioning.- Treatment outcomes: Strategies for addressing individual’s return to work.- Psychiatry.- Epidemiological and prevalence of psychological and behavioral health concerns in Psychiatry- Discussion of usual care treatment process: strengths and weaknesses.- Determining current psychiatric functioning: strengths and weaknesses.- Psychological testing.- Symptom exaggeration and Malingering.- Referral and coordination of treatment considerations: strengths and weakness in current process.- Medicalization: The process of taking everyday occurrences and identifying them as medical concerns.- Appropriate documentation of limitations in functioning.- Treatment outcomes: Strategies for addressing individual’s return to work.- Rehabilitation.- Epidemiological and prevalence of psychological and behavioral health concerns in Psychiatry.- Discussion of usual care treatment process: strengths and weaknesses.- Determining current psychiatric functioning: strengths and weaknesses.- Rehabilitation assessment and testing.- Symptom exaggeration and Malingering.- Referral and coordination of treatment considerations: strengths and weakness in current process.- Medicalization: The process of taking everyday occurrences and identifying them as medical concerns.- Patient compliance issues: limitations and strategiesfor improved management.- Appropriate documentation of limitations in functioning.- Treatment outcomes: Strategies for addressing individual’s return to work.- Legal Perspective.- Plaintiff versus defense perspective on psychological and behavioral health disability.- State legislative considerations.- Federal considerations: FMLA and ADA.- HIPAA limitations with disability.- Legal perspective in defining appropriate outcome.- Employer Perspective.- Maintaining a productive workplace.- Workplace absence policy: Strengths and weakness in current employer policies.- Problematic workplace behaviors that serve as catalysts for filing for a psychological disability claim.- Obtaining required documentation: strengths and weaknesses in current process.- Gaps in communication with treating professionals.- Appropriate workplace accommodations.- Helping the employee stay at work.- The insurer and psychological/behavioral health disability.- Insurer perspective.- Case management perspective.- Current issues in providing insurance coverage for psychological, behavioral health, and co-morbid claims.- Current identified drivers of psychological disability claims.- Strategies for effective management.- Future Directions .- Summarization/recap.- Recommendations for initiating immediate change in the process.- Implications for long-term change.- Implications for future research