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Maintaining Employees and Productivity
Through Disability Management
Established 1983

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This Series is worth four (4) Credit Hours for CRCC and CDMSC and ten (10) Credit Hours for CCMC.

Section A: Return to Work: Who Makes the Decision?
Section B: Basic Ideas about Disability Management in the Workplace for Human Resource Professionals
Section C: Disability as a Process: Being Disability Prone
Section D: The Importance of Testing in Forensic Vocational Disability Assessments

 
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Questions based on the article, "Disability As a Process: Basic Ideas About Disability Management in the Workplace"


  1. The source of the decision on who returns to work after treatment should be the:

  2. employee
    employer
    physician
    carrier insurance carrier

  3. Transition-to-Work Plans are developed by a team of relevant participants. They include all except which of the following:

  4. employee’s immediate supervisor
    a medical professional who knows about the case
    the insurance carrier
    the employee

  5. Behan and Hirschfeld concluded that some employees, under certain conditions, could "manifest disability without" which of the following

  6. harm
    disease
    extensive effect
    the employer's knowedge

  7. Weinstein described what Behan and Hirschfeld found as the

  8. injury
    accident
    supervisor determination
    disability process

  9. The first overall objective for creating a disability management program is

  10. getting the funding for it
    getting the program certified by the state
    establishing an organizational commitment to the program
    establish a commitment from the employee to participate

  11. One specific aspect of the Health Care Reform is that it should foster

  12. wellness programming
    renewed interest in OSHA and its responsibility
    a cooperative agreement from the Union when appropriate
    adequate funding by the Congress

  13. One key concept of the disability process is that an accident or illness can be a way for the employee to

  14. go on Workers' Compensation
    realize lost time from work
    gain respect from his/her peers
    recognize the difficulty of suddenly being unemployed

  15. In the case of the Science Teacher, her claim of total occupational disability was fueled by factors other than

  16. actual impairment
    imagined impairment
    pretended impairment
    lack of impairment

  17. In unguarded moments, the Hair Stylist did not display any of the symptoms that she claimed as verified by numerous surveillance videos

  18. True
    False

  19. For Bill, the Job-Hopping Auto Mechanic, his "long-term personality maladjust-ment"clearly

  20. resulted in his getting long a term Worker's Compensation claim
    preceded his accident-related injury
    preceded his being fired from his last job
    resulted in a court ruling in his favor

  21. Complete histories of chronically disabled employees show that before work- related accidents they were frequently

  22. apathetic about work
    interested in more rapid advancement at work
    less than conscientious employees
    troubled at work and/or their personal lives

  23. The vocational assessment and evaluation of an individual's earning power following an injury or illness is generally considered a process involving all of the following except

  24. reviewing medical information
    gathering relevant data through interviewing
    determining a worker's traits and job skills that have the potential to be transferred
    determining the length of employment with the company

  25. VDARE is the common term used to identify the Vocational Diagnosis and Assessment of Residual Employability

  26. True
    False

  27. As a method of assessment, TSA has

  28. a wealth of knowledge for Rehab professionals
    the approval of the U.S. Department of Labor
    little or no redeeming value in quality rehabilitation programs
    several inherent flaws that argue strongly against its use as an exclusive approach

  29. Standardized test procedures that measure abilities, personalities, and vocational interests are

  30. an unessential element of comprehensive vocational disability assessment
    an unessential aspect in litigations
    an essential element of comprehensive vocational disability assessment
    an essential element in determining the level of Workers' Compensation a claimant is due

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