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Employee Mental Illness and the ADA: Legally-Sound Compliance Strategies

Course Description:

How do you know if you are dealing with a mentally ill employee?  How do you determine what’s considered a psychiatric disability? How does the ADA apply to depression, anxiety, and other behavioral and mental disorders?

Join CCM and our expert faculty in this increasingly important audio conference where you’ll get the answers to these questions in addition to learning:  

• How to classify the needs of your employees in regards to mental illness
• Best practices for encountering mentally ill employees – how to communicate without crossing legal boundaries
• How to determine if an employee is a threat to the health and safety of others
• How to make sure the workplace is safe-guarded for potential incidents involving a mentally ill employee
• What information employers can seek and obtain from health care providers
• How to determine if the ADA applies and what procedures are necessary for compliance
• When accommodations for mentally ill employees go too far
• When to terminate an employee with mental illness without suffering any legal repercussions
  

Featured Faculty:

Gerald Lewis, Ph.D. & Associates, P.C.

A licensed Clinical Psychologist and has been practicing in the Boston area since 1977. He was the Chief Psychologist at the Marlboro Hospital, in-patient psychiatric unit from 1977 through 1985 and as Team Leader, was responsible for coordinating the clinical treatment and behavioral management of half the patients on the unit.

In 1985, he established a private practice and, as Co-Director, organized Mental Health Affiliates, a multidisciplinary group of mental health providers with two office locations. He provides litigation consultation/expert testimony in the areas of: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), sexual harassment, workplace violence, fitness for duty, negligent retention/termination, Americans with Disabilities, malpractice, depression, drugs and alcohol issues, etc.

Dr. Lewis is a prolific writer and has authored numerous articles and three books: Critical Incident Stress and Trauma in the Workplace (1994) and Workplace Hostility: Myth & Reality (co-author, 1998). Organizational Crisis Management: The Human Factor (March 2006). In addition, he contributed the chapter, "Violence at Work: Causes and Protection" in Psychopathology in the Workplace: Recognition and Adaptation, edited by Thomas, J. and Hersen, M., Bruner-Rutledge, NY, 2004.

MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE:

We're so confident you'll get what you want out of this conference that we'll refund every penny if you're not completely satisfied. No questions asked! It's 100% risk-free!

Pricing:

Your CD recording includes the complete audio conference presentation, audience Q&A and presentation materials.

APPROVED FOR RECERTIFICATION CREDIT:

HRCI - Receive 1.5 recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage at www.hrci.org. "The use of this seal is not an endorsement by the HR Certification Institute of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met the HR Certification Institute’s criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit."

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