Navigating Social Security Disability Programs : A Handbook for Clinicians and Advocates /: A Handbook for Clinicians and Advocates. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: James Randall Noblitt, Pamela Perskin Noblitt.
• Authors: Noblitt, James Randall; Noblitt, Pamela Perskin
• Contents: PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1 An Overview of Social Security Disability ProgramsSocial Security Disability InsuranceDisabled Widow BenefitsDisabled Child BenefitsPosthumous BenefitsSupplemental Security IncomeDisabled U.S. Veterans of the Uniformed ServicesChapter 2 Clinical Assessment of the Ability to WorkWhat Is Disability?What Is Work?Measuring DisabilityChapter 3 Disability DeterminationDiagnoses, Symptoms, and Limitations in the Assessment of DisabilityContributing Factors in Disability DeterminationChapter 4 Complicating Factors in Disability DeterminationLack of TreatmentDrug Abuse and AlcoholismNoncompliance with TreatmentLack of Treating Clinician SupportMalingeringCredibilityChapter 5 The Role of Clinicians in Disability DeterminationDuty of Clinicians to PatientsDisabled People as an Underserved CommunityClinicians' Ethical Considerations and Disability DeterminationDocumentation of ServicesHealth Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)Chapter 6 Psychological DisabilitiesNeurocognitive DisordersSchizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic DisordersDepressive, Bipolar, and Related DisordersIntellectual DisorderAnxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive DisordersSomatic Symptom and Related DisordersPersonality and Impulse-Control DisordersAutism Spectrum DisorderNeurodevelopmental DisordersEating DisordersDevelopmental Disorders in Infants and ToddlersTrauma- and Stressor-Related DisordersChapter 7 Application Process for Social Security Disability ProgramsWho Is Eligible for Social Security Disability Programs?Initial ApplicationReconsiderationExhibit FileHearing LevelRepresentation for Disability Insurance BenefitsChapter 8 Claimants and Advocates: Navigating the Disability Determination ProcessPlanning for DisasterSurvival StrategiesCommon Mistakes Claimants MakeAssessing CliniciansTreatment and OpinionsChapter 9 The Past, Present, and Future: Public Policy and Social SecurityEpilogueAppendix A Listing of Impairments (Adult)Appendix B Listing of Impairments (Child)Appendix C Functional Limitations Due to Physical Impairment Questionnaire (Adult)Appendix D Functional Limitations Due to Psychological Impairment Questionnaire (Adult)Appendix E Functional Limitations Due to Physical Impairment Questionnaire (Child)Appendix F Functional Limitations Due to Psychological Impairment Questionnaire (Child)Appendix G Example of Social Security–Compatible Documentation of Psychological ServicesAppendix H Compassionate Allowance List (as of August 20, 2018)ReferencesGlossary of TermsIndex.
• Publisher Details: New York : Praeger
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (576 pages)
• Subjects: Law -- Disability; Medical -- General; Health & Fitness -- General; Politics & government
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9798216122012
• Related ISBNs: 9781440870019
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