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Benefits and work for people with mental health problems: a briefing for mental health workers
- Authors:
- SEEBOHM Patience, SCOTT Judy
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 8p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Mental health service users often want to return to work, but after six months of sickness absence, only half ever succeed. Many are unsure or misinformed about how to make the journey into employment without feeling financially or emotionally insecure. It is important for mental health support workers in every field to have some knowledge of the benefits system – this briefing enables them to offer accurate guidance which will help service users make the move into employment with reduced risk to their wellbeing or their income. The briefing identifies seven major disincentives to work which must be tackled by policy makers before returning to employment can become a clear, easy process for service users. Under the present system, people may experience no financial gain, or even a drop in income from working, they may be unable to get financial support for practical needs at work, and they may be forced to undergo an untimely medical review.
New thinking about mental health and employment
- Authors:
- GROVE Bob, SECKER Jenny, SEEBOHM Patience, (eds)
- Publisher:
- Radcliffe
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 162p.
- Place of publication:
- Abingdon
Until recently it has been assumed that people who experience severe and enduring mental health problems are unable to work, unless or until they recover. That assumption is now being challenged by international research demonstrating that, with the right support, people can succeed in finding and keeping a job even when they continue to need support from mental health services. This book draws together the research undertaken to date and combines it with mental health service users’ perspectives on the workplace to validate key points.
Evening the odds: employment support, mental health and the black and minority ethnic communities
- Author:
- SEEBOHM Patience
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 11p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This briefing states that all people with mental health problems face barriers in getting and keeping work but that these barriers can be even greater for people from Black and minority ethnic communities. It also suggests that mental health and employment services can help to overcome these barriers by offering targeted support for Black and minority ethnic people to achieve their hopes and fulfil their potential.
Valuing experience: thirteen people who have used mental health services talk about their work as "experts by experience"
- Editor:
- SEEBOHM Patience
- Publisher:
- Institute for Applied Health and Social Policy, King's College London,|Universit
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 60p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
As service user involvement becomes a reality across mental health services, it is important that people should know what they are letting themselves in for, in order that they avoid feelings of being exploited as token users. This booklet was produced as part of Unlocking Potential, a three-year project based within the Employment Support Unit at the Institute for Applied Health and Social Policy Kings College London. With funding from the Department of Health, the project aims to develop user-led employment services .