Contents Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii Introduction xix Chapter 1 An Overview of Social Security Disability Programs 1 Social Security Disability Insurance 1 Disabled Widow Benefits 3 Disabled Child Benefits 4 Posthumous Benefits 5 Supplemental Security Income 5 Disabled U.S. Veterans of the Uniformed Services 6 Chapter 2 Clinical Assessment of the Ability to Work 9 What Is Disability? 9 What Is Work? 12 Measuring Disability 18 Chapter 3 Disability Determination 25 Diagnoses, Symptoms, and Limitations in the Assessment of Disability 26 Contributing Factors in Disability Determination 27 Chapter 4 Complicating Factors in Disability Determination 33 Lack of Treatment 33 Drug Abuse and Alcoholism 35 Noncompliance with Treatment 37 Lack of Treating Clinician Support 40