Return to work and disability management
Session details
Date:
Time:
Location:
Zoom videoconferencing
Didactic presentation by:
Behdin Nowrouzi-Kia
Session objectives
At the end of this session, participants should be able to:
- Explain the role of allied health practitioners in return to work and disability management
- Recognize resources for suitable workplace accommodations through a biopsychosocial framework
- Summarize the "Seven principles for successful return to work”
Session resources
About presenter
Dr. Behdin Nowrouzi-Kia is an occupational therapist and assistant professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy and Occupational Science at the University of Toronto, where he also holds the inaugural Emily Geldsaler Grant Early Career Professorship in Workplace Mental Health.
Through an occupational lens, his research program is a systematic study of work disability prevention, return to work and disability management. His approach is designed to produce results directly applicable to identifying and assessing risk, and to developing interventions for preventing or improving high-risk behaviours in the workplace.
Nowrouzi-Kia’s work is motivated by efforts in work disability prevention that extend beyond efforts to prevent or cure diseases from a purely physical perspective to more holistic approaches. The major tenets of his work use a biopsychosocial perspective to understand work disability and incorporate personal characteristics (e.g. psychosocial) and environmental (e.g., health-care system, workplace, workers’ compensation system) factors in improving health outcomes.
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