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Assessing Employment Discrimination Charges Filed by Individuals With Psychiatric Disabilities Under the Americans With Disabilities Act

KATHRYN MOSS is based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a senior research fellow in the Jordan Institute for Families, Disabilities Research Program, in the School of Social Work; an adjunct associate professor in the School of Social Work; and a research fellow in the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. She has master's degrees in rehabilitation counseling and communications research and earned her doctorate in social policy at the Florence Heller School of Brandeis University.

MATTHEW JOHNSEN

MATTHEW JOHNSEN is research director at R.O.W. Sciences in Rockville, Maryland. Trained as a sociologist, his research interests include disability policy, mental health services and systems research, child maltreatment, and health services research. His most recent work has focused on the impact of behavioral health care on vulnerable populations (includingpersons who are homeless and mentally ill) and the systems serving them.

MICHAEL ULLMAN

MICHAEL ULLMAN is a research analyst at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ullman has a master's degree in sociology. His most recent work has involved the evaluation of a federal demonstration project focusing on improving the accessibility and coordination of services to persons who are mentally ill.

This article presents findings from analyses of nationwide data on employment discrimination charges filed under the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). In conducting the analyses, emphasis was placed on understanding the extent to which the ADA charge process differentially affects individuals with psychiatric disabilities. We found that 16.3% of individuals whose charges were closed as of June 30, 1995, received benefits from filing charges; individuals with psychiatric disabilities were only somewhat less likely to experience benefits from filing charges than were individuals with nonpsychiatric disabilities; individuals with schizophrenia had a strikingly lower benefit rate than all other individuals with other types of psychiatric disorders; and there was considerable variation among individuals with different kinds of nonpsychiatric disabilities in benefit rates.

Journal of Disability Policy Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1, 81-105 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/104420739800900105


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