ABSTRACT
Three primary rationales for accommodating individuals with mental health disability have been explicated by Cleveland, Barnes-Farrell, and Ratz (1997) and include legal mandates (i.e., “We must accommodate to be compliant with the law”), social or moral mandates (i.e., “We should accommodate in the best interest of our employees and society”), and business or economic principles (i.e., “Accommodation is an investment from which we will receive a return”). In this section we examine the nature and implications of these three forces behind employers’ decisions to accommodate individuals experiencing psychopathology.
