Mental Health Disabilities at Work
Mental Health Disabilities at Work
A Practical Guide for Employees, Employers and Unions
About the Book
Authored by a clinical psychologist and a labour lawyer, Mental Health Disabilities at Work answers all of your questions, in practical and non-technical language, about mental health and mental illness in the workplace. Also covered are disability discrimination and the duty to accommodate, and privacy rights and medical information relating to employees with mental health concerns.
About the Author
Dr. Mike Condra is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Queen’s University in Kingston, ON. He has taught in the undergraduate and graduate programs in the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education and Faculty of Law. For more than two decades, Mike was the Director of the Department of Health, Counselling and Disability Services at Queen’s University. He co-developed the Queen’s University Crisis Intervention Institute and has presented at national and international conferences on the topics of mental health, risk-assessment, stigma-reduction, crisis-intervention, and verbal de-escalation.
Meryl Zisman Gary practiced equality and human rights law at Bakerlaw, a small firm in Toronto. Meryl has been actively involved in community and legal organizations concerned with equity and social reform, and served on the Board of Community Outreach Programs in Addictions from 2010 to 2014. She currently teaches constitutional law in Osgoode Hall’s Professional LL.M. in Canadian Common Law.
