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Document ID (ISN)102243
CIS number 03-1197
ISBN(s) 84-351-0376-5
Year 2001
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Ferreras de la Fuente A., Pérez Urdániz A., Molina Ramos R., Solana Sorribas J.A., Rubio García I.
Title Guide to the evaluation of work incapacity as a consequence of psychiatric diseases
Original title Manuel de valoración de la incapacidad laboral en las enfermedades psiquiátricas [in Spanish]
Bibliographic information Instituto Nacional de Medicina y Seguridad del Trabajo, Madrid, Spain, 2001. 251p. Illus. Bibl.ref. Index.
Abstract Aimed at occupational physicians, this manual offers guidance to the evaluation of work incapacity as a consequence of psychiatric diseases. Contents: incapacity due to psychic disorders; definition and classification of mental diseases; anamnesis and psychiatric evaluation of the patient; organic psychiatric disorders and mentally-retarded patients; psychiatric disorders related to the consumption of alcohol or drugs; schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders; mood disorders; anxiety, somatotrophic and dissociative disorders; personality disorders; other psychiatric disorders; new occupational pathologies (burnout, bullying). Appendices include: scales for evaluating the degree of incapacitation according Royal Decree 1971/1999; DSM-IV scales for evaluating total activity and social and professional activity; DSM-IV classification with ICD-10 and ICD-9-CM codes; ICD-10 classification of mental and behavioural disorders.
Descriptors (primary) occupational diseases; Spain; degree of disability; mental disorders; sickness absenteeism
Descriptors (secondary) neuropsychic stress; drug dependence; bullying; alcoholism; classification; schizophrenia; neurosis; manuals; mental illness
Document type E - Books, reports, proceedings
Country / State or ProvinceSpain
Subject(s) Occupational pathology
Broad subject area(s) Occupational medicine, epidemiology
Browse category(ies) Mental health
Bullying and mobbing
Workers' compensation
Alcohol and drug abuse