Mental Illness
Dr. Barth's professional activities focused on issues of mental illness
The American Medical Association has repeatedly asked Dr. Barth to work on AMA publications and programs which have addressed mental illness. Dr. Barth’s work with the AMA has included:
- Being chosen to write the Mental Illness chapter in the American Medical Association’s Guides to the Evaluation of Disease and Injury Causation
- This book explains how doctors should evaluate whether a claimed injury or event caused a patient’s clinical problems.
- Serving as a reviewer for the AMA’s Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment
- Specifically including serving as the “final” reviewer for the Mental and Behavioral Disorders chapter (which addresses mental illness), and for the Central and Peripheral Nervous System chapter (which also addresses mental illness).
- Being chosen to write the discussion of impairment
evaluation for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
for the AMA’s Guides Casebook
- Writing and editing additional AMA publications, addressing issues which have included:
- The role of mental illness in presentations of pain
- The role of mental illness in medical disability claims
- Impairment evaluation for presentations of depressive mental illness
- Global assessment of functioning for mental illness
- Additional issues of relevance to mental illness
- Providing continuing education for the AMA’s
House of Delegates
Dr. Barth has been invited to serve as chapter leader for the Stress and Mental Illness chapter of the Official Disability Guidelines Treatment in Workers Compensation, which has reportedly been adopted into the government regulations of 20 US States and 6 Canadian provinces.
He has also served as a reviewer for the American Academy of Neurology, in regard to the American Psychiatric Association’s guidelines for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar Disorder.
Dr. Barth has been asked to provide faculty, writing, and editorial review duties, focused on issues of mental illness, for many academies, governments, and healthcare publishers including:
- American Medical Association
- American Psychological Association
- American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
- European Union of Medicine in Assurance and Social Security
- American Academy of Disability Evaluating Physicians
- North American Spine Society
- American Academy of Neurology
- National Association of Workers' Compensation Judiciary
- International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions
- Official Disability Guidelines Treatment in Workers Compensation
- Occupational and Environmental Medicine Press
- Several state and provincial workers compensation
agencies
Mental Illness: Neuropsychology Evaluations and File Reviews
For patients who are experiencing mental illness, or who are suspected to be experiencing mental illness, Dr. Barth’s evaluations and file reviews can help clarify issues such as:
- Is the patient actually mentally ill?
- Diagnosis
- Causation (injury-relatedness, work-relatedness,
event-relatedness, trauma-relatedness, etc.)
- Impairment
- Disability
- Competence or competency
- Testamentary capacity
- Prognosis
- Treatment planning
- Additional issues of relevance to mental illness
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
- Mood disorders: Major Depressive Disorder, Dysthymic Disorder,
Bipolar Disorder, “depression”, “mania”, etc.
- Anxiety Disorders: Panic Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive
Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, “stress”, “anxiety”,
posttraumatic stress disorder, etc.
- Adjustment Disorder
- Substance abuse, substance dependence: e.g., alcohol abuse, “alcoholism”, “addiction”,
narcotic abuse, narcotic dependence, opioid abuse, opioid dependence, etc.
- Somatoform disorders: Somatization, conversion, pain disorder,
etc.
- Personality disorders
- Additional forms of mental illness
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