Work Accommodation and Retention in Mental Health (PDF)

Dr. Izabela Schultz is a clinical and rehabilitation psychologist specializing in medico-legal and vocational aspects of psychological, neuropsychological and pain-related disability, both in her academic research and in her forensic practice. She is doubly Board-certified and holds the Diplomate distinctions of the American Board of Professional Psychology, in Clinical Psychology and of the American Board of Vocational Experts.

Dr. Schultz is Professor in the Counselling Psychology Program at the University of British Columbia where she also serves as Director of the newly formed graduate program in Vocational Rehabilitation Counselling. She has presented, taught and published extensively in the United States, Canada, and internationally in the area of psychosocial, vocational and psycho-legal aspects of disability. Her particular research expertise is in determination of causation of psychological disability, in multivariate prediction of occupational disability, early intervention with high risk workers and employment retention of employees with complex disabilities including mental health, brain injury and pain. She has provided expert court testimony on psychological and neuropsychological matters.

Dr. Schultz's two previous books, Psychological Injuries at Trial (2003) and Handbook of Complex Occupational Disability Claims (2005), have contributed to an evolution of the paradigm in the occupational disability field-from medical to biopsychosocial model.

Dr. Schultz is currently co-chair of the American Psychological Association's Task Force on Guidelines for Assessment and Treatment of Persons with Disabilities, and is on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals.



E. Sally Rogers is Director of Research at the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University where she had been conducting mental health and vocational research since 1981. The Center was founded under the direction of Dr.

From the reviews: “This book addresses how mental health issues affect employee productivity, unemployment, and underemployment, emphasizing the importance of vocational rehabilitation and job accommodation. … The primary target audience includes occupational and rehabilitation physicians, vocational rehabilitation providers, occupational therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, neuropsychologists, and social workers who assist individuals with mental health disabilities to get and keep work. … This book addresses an employment problem, offering practical suggestions to increase job productivity.” (Gary B. Kaniuk, Doody’s Review Service, April, 2011)