Occupational Psychiatrist Writes About – Workplace Stress Claims

SAN JOSE - Robert C. Larsen, MD, MPH, in an article about the workers' compensation system in the April issue of Psychiatric Annals, divided claims of psychiatric injury into three types. In the first type there are psychiatric sequelae following initial physical injury---typically, adjustment disorders, mood disorders and substance abuse. The injury claim precedes the psychiatric portion of the claim, Larsen wrote.The second type of case is not litigated as to causation. It "involves responses t