Should Mental Illness Fall Under the AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT?
USA Today Magazine › Vol. 127 Nbr. 2644, January 1999
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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidelines for applying the Americans with Disabilities Act to people with mental illness have caused a clash between conservatives and liberals. There are many problems in applying the law to mental illness, particularly the lack of clear rules on who may provide a diagnosis.
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Should Mental Illness Fall Under the AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT?
Liberals and conservatives have clashed over the issue, the former saluting "an end to to discrimination," the latter decrying "another government-mandated entitlements."
THERE ARE few areas where liberalism and conservatism collide more starkly than in psychology and psychiatry. Individual responsibility is the value that most clearly defines the conservative reflex. Meanwhile, in most areas where Pres. Clinton has moved to the fight, he has supported, rhetorically at least, what political writer E.J. Dionne calls "responsibility-ism"--i.e., the "need to find ways of encouraging citizens to take their responsibilities as ...See the full content of this document
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