Month: November 2020
Emotionally Coping with COVID-19

Emotionally Coping with COVID-19

We of course are in unprecedented times as global society copes with the impacts of this pandemic. The CDC has released its directives supplemented by the President’s 15 Days to Slow the Spread guidelines. We all pray that these tactics, and those likely to come soon,...

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Rating Psychiatric Impairment

Rating Psychiatric Impairment

I previously reviewed some of the challenges of measuring the severity of psychiatric injuries, and I recommended that IME examiners attempt to minimize reliance on subjective impressions, avoid making inferences from clients’ emotional symptoms and personality...

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