DVD (Running Time: 28 Minutes)

Psychiatric disability, while highly prevalent amongst workers in the North American workforce, remains one of the most difficult disabilities for employers to understand and manage effectively. For most employers, it remains shrouded in misgivings, misunderstandings and even fear. Understanding Employees and Job Applicants with Psychiatric Disabilities goes a long way towards resolving those concerns. Dealing head-on with four commonly encountered forms of psychiatric disability, it explores their medical and vocational implications - and offers straightforward suggestions for effective accommodations.  

Specific Disabilities Discussed:

• Paranoid Schizophrenia
   

• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
   

• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
   

• Bipolar Disorder

Engaging real-life work scenarios, based on the experiences of actual employees, are used to as a basis for the discussion of each disability. From each of these scenarios, experts guide viewers through an explanation of how that disability might affect the individual, how its effects can be managed through treatment and/or medication, and the types of job accommodations that might be most effective.

Experts featured in the video include: Jo Ellen Brainin-Rodriguez, M.D., Director, Bridge to Wellness; Aaron Cohen, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist; and H. Joan Ehrlich, former District Director, Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC).

The DVD has a convenient Menu feature that makes it easy to view the video according to selected segments. Upon request, we will email purchasers a companion Workbook (in PDF format) that is intended to facilitate the use of this video as a training tool in group settings.

The scenarios, educational commentary, and expert opinion presented in this video will help employees from all levels in a company, to better appreciate the situations faced by employees and job applicants with disabilities and the workplace supports that they might require in order to be productive and to excel on the job.

Applications

As a tool for Human Resources professionals, Diversity Managers, or Job Developers, this video is a great tool for educating company personnel on issues related to types of psychiatric disabilities that are commonly encountered in the workplace.

While it can be used to effectively educate individual viewers, it can be especially effective when shown to a group of viewers and followed up with dialogue and discussion.

Accessibility

Subtitled in English or Spanish.