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Learning Objectives
You will learn the critical distinction between impairment and disability.
You will learn that the assessment of damages is a tripartite process that requires each of the following: Medical expertise to assess impairment (mental and/or physical); Vocational opinion to evaluate the occupational effect of the medical impairment; Economic analysis, an effort to quantify monetary losses over the plaintiffs worklife expectancy.
You will learn that in particular personal injury cases involving multiple impairments, the vocational expert may be the most qualified professional to speak to not only occupational disability but also the actual cause of that disability.
You will learn that return-to-work practices constitute the keystone of most disability management programs, bringing prevention and early intervention strategies together with transition to work and occupational recovery. All state-of-the-art disability management includes reductions in absenteeism and maintenance of productivity through planned transition to work programs. Just who is responsible for an employees return to work? Here we attempt to answer that question so that organizational members recognize their responsibilities in a return to work effort.
You will learn that the primary objective of an occupational disability evaluation following trauma is to identify the impaired individuals vocational potential through an ethical systematic assessment process. Through that process, the vocational assessment professional is able to observe, measure, and document occupationally relevant behaviors to determine an individuals potential to successfully perform particular forms of work.