Pre-Employment Disability Evaluation

Work, employment and psychiatric disability

Work is important both in maintaining mental health and in promoting the recovery of those who have experienced mental health problems. Enabling people to retain or gain employment has a profound effect on many areas of life and the costs of unemployment are high. Employment for individuals with mental illness gives opportunities for them to participate in society as active citizens, and barrie...

Pre-Employment Integrity Testing:

Pre-Employment Testing: An Overview

Preventive effectiveness of pre-employment medical assessments.

OBJECTIVE AND METHODS Health gain, prevention of health loss, and avoidance of financial risk all seem to be driving forces for the use of pre-employment medical assessment. An attempt is made to measure the effect of implementing the pre-employment medical assessment on these end points. The anticipated maximum preventive effect (preventive effectiveness) of selection by means of pre-employmen...

Pre-Employment Testing and the ADA

This brochure is one of a series on human resources practices and workplace accommodations for persons with disabilities edited by Susanne M. Bruyère, Ph.D., CRC, SPHR, Director, Program on Employment and Disability, School of Industrial and Labor Relations – Extension Division, Cornell University. It was updated in July, 2000, by Mary Anne Nester, Ph.D., U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Ser...