Mental Disabilities and the Americans with Disabilities Act: A Concise Compliance Manual for Executives

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Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, organizations that fail to provide reasonable accommodations to employees with mental disabilities may be subject to penalties and punitive damages. The Act does not, however, provide useful guidelines to help organizations comply--a gap that Dr. Fielder's book now fills. This manual shows that compliance is not difficult or expensive. In clear, concise language, it acquaints management with mental diagnoses, impairments, disabilities, the myths of mental illness and its affect on job performance, and provides samples of workplace accommodations and compliance plans. Practical and readable, the book is intended for management of organizations with 15 or more employees, their human resource staffs and employee assistance professionals, and legal counsel.

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This book should appeal to an audience of managers, human resources staff members, employee assistance professionals, legal counsel, and faculty or students interested in mental disabilities and ADA compliance. Moreover, the book's readability, clarity, brevity, and coherent structure make it highly accessible to all these audiences. The author's treatment of this complex topic is consistently sensible, and the material is presented in a clear, organized, and coherent manner. It is difficult to see how anyone who desires a guide for accommodating employees with mental disabilities would not benefit from this book.-Personnel Psychology
"This book should appeal to an audience of managers, human resources staff members, employee assistance professionals, legal counsel, and faculty or students interested in mental disabilities and ADA compliance. Moreover, the book's readability, clarity, brevity, and coherent structure make it highly accessible to all these audiences. The author's treatment of this complex topic is consistently sensible, and the material is presented in a clear, organized, and coherent manner. It is difficult to see how anyone who desires a guide for accommodating employees with mental disabilities would not benefit from this book."-Personnel Psychology

Author Bio

JOHN F. FIELDER, Ph.D. is President and founder of the California Institute of Psychology, San Francisco. Also a consultant to the business community on ADA compliance, he has written numerous articles dealing with various topics in psychology of interest to business. He is former director of training in clinical psychology at McAuley Neropsychiatric Institute, St. Mary's Hospital and Medical Center, San Francisco, and wrote a weekly column for the San Francisco Chronicle.