Fitness for Duty

Handbook of Forensic Assessment: Psychological and Psychiatric Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 571-591

  Piechowski, Lisa Drago ^a   Drukteinis, Albert M ^b  

^a New England Psychodiagnostics ^*

^b New England Psychodiagnostics   (United States)

Author keywords

Disability evaluations; Employee's rights; Evaluators; Fitness for duty; Mental impairment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886536940     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118093399.ch25     Document Type: Chapter

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