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Employer and employment agency attitudes towards employing individuals with mental health needs
- Authors:
- BIGGS David, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 19(6), December 2010, pp.509-516.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
The positive benefits of paid employment for individuals with mental health needs are well known yet many still remain unemployed. The attitudes of employers and employment agencies that may provide short-term contracts to individuals with mental health needs are important to understand if these individuals are to be given access to paid employment. This study used a mixed methods approach comprising interviews and a follow-up survey. Interviews were conducted with 10 directors responsible for the local recruitment agency in Gloucestershire and 10 employing managers in large businesses. The results of these interviews then informed a follow-up survey of 200 businesses in Gloucestershire. The findings demonstrated that employment agencies would consider putting forward individuals with previous mental health needs to employers. However, employers had a high level of concern around employing these individuals. Employers reported issues of trust, needing supervision, inability to use initiative and inability to deal with the public for individuals with either existing or previous mental health needs. The article concludes that there is a need for employers to have more accurate information regarding hiring individuals with mental health needs.
Evidence for effective interventions to reduce mental health-related stigma and discrimination in the medium and long term: systematic review
- Authors:
- MEHTA N., et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 207(5), 2015, pp.377-384.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Background: Most research on interventions to counter stigma and discrimination has focused on short-term outcomes and has been conducted in high-income settings. Aims: To synthesise what is known globally about effective interventions to reduce mental illness-based stigma and discrimination, in relation first to effectiveness in the medium and long term (minimum 4 weeks), and second to interventions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Method: Searches were conducted on six databases from 1980 to 2013 and a multi-language Google search was carried out for quantitative studies addressing the research questions. Effect sizes were calculated from eligible studies where possible, and narrative syntheses conducted. Subgroup analysis compared interventions with and without social contact. Results: Eighty studies (n = 422 653) were included in the review. For studies with medium or long-term follow-up (72, of which 21 had calculable effect sizes) median standardised mean differences were 0.54 for knowledge and −0.26 for stigmatising attitudes. Those containing social contact (direct or indirect) were not more effective than those without. The 11 LMIC studies were all from middle-income countries. Effect sizes were rarely calculable for behavioural outcomes or in LMIC studies. Conclusions: There is modest evidence for the effectiveness of anti-stigma interventions beyond 4 weeks follow-up in terms of increasing knowledge and reducing stigmatising attitudes. Evidence does not support the view that social contact is the more effective type of intervention for improving attitudes in the medium to long term. Methodologically strong research is needed on which to base decisions on investment in stigma-reducing interventions. (Edited publisher abstract)
Attitudes to mental illness 2013: research report
- Author:
- TNS-BMRB
- Publisher:
- TNS-BMRB
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 59
- Place of publication:
- London
This report presents the findings of a survey of attitudes towards mental illness among adults in England. The data show public attitudes towards mental illness have improved significantly with the biggest annual improvement in the last decade taking place in 2013. The report shows that more people than ever before are acknowledging that they know someone with a mental health problem. However, despite these improvements attitudes around employment are lagging behind and nearly half of respondents said they would feel uncomfortable talking to an employer about their own mental health. Other major improvements include 79 per of people now acknowledging that people with a mental illness have for too long been the subject of ridicule, compared with 75 per cent in 2008 and 83 per cent agreed that no one has the right to exclude people with a mental illness from their neighbourhood compared with 74 per cent in 2008. The overall the picture is one of a general shift to more tolerant attitudes and greater recognition that people should not be discriminated against on the grounds of their mental health. (Edited publisher abstract)
Mental health and barriers to employment
- Author:
- McART Dervala
- Journal article citation:
- Probation Journal, 61(1), 2014, pp.85-87.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This report explores the numerous barriers to employment of people with experience of mental health conditions − namely discriminatory attitudes of employers, low expectations of health professionals and ineffective models of supported employment. The report highlights that in February 2013, over 724,000 people were claiming employment and support allowance because of mental and behavioural disorders. The report evidences that many of these people want to work and would like more help to return to employment, but they are lacking the necessary support from employers and health professionals, and are facing barriers created by employment models. (Publisher abstract)
Influence of Time to Change’s social marketing interventions on stigma in England 2009-2011
- Authors:
- EVANS-LACKO Sara, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 202(s55), April 2013, pp.s77-s88.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
England’s Time To Change (TTC) social marketing campaign emphasised social contact between people with and without mental health problems to reduce stigma and discrimination. This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of the mass media component and also that of the mass social contact events. Online interviews were performed before and after each burst of mass media social marketing to evaluate changes in knowledge, attitudes and behaviour and associations between campaign awareness and outcomes. Participants at social contact events were asked about the occurrence and quality of contact, attitudes, readiness to discuss mental health and intended behaviour towards people with mental health problems. Prompted campaign awareness was 38-64%. A longitudinal improvement was noted for one intended behaviour item but not for knowledge or attitudes. Campaign awareness was positively associated with greater knowledge and more favourable attitudes and intended behaviour. Social contact at events demonstrated a positive impact on perceived attitude change. Contact quality predicted more positive attitude change and greater confidence to challenge stigma. The favourable short-term consequences of the social marketing campaign suggest that social contact can be used by anti-stigma programmes to reduce stigma. (Edited publisher abstract)
An uncertain revolution: why the rise of a genetic model of mental illness has not increased tolerance
- Author:
- SCHNITTER Jason
- Journal article citation:
- Social Science and Medicine, 67(9), November 2008, pp.1370-1381.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
This study uses the 2006 replication of the 1996 General Social Survey Mental Health Module to explore trends in public beliefs about mental illness in the USA. Drawing on three models related to the framing of genetic arguments in popular media, the study attempts to address why tolerance of the mentally ill has not increased, despite the growing popularity of a biomedical view. The key to resolving this paradox lies in understanding how genetic arguments interact with other beliefs about mental illness, as well as the complex ideational implications of genetic frameworks. Genetic arguments have contingent relationships with tolerance. When applied to schizophrenia, genetic arguments are positively associated with fears regarding violence. Indeed, in this regard, attributing schizophrenia to genes is no different from attributing schizophrenia to bad character. However, when applied to depression, genetic arguments are positively associated with social acceptance. In addition to these contingencies, genetic explanations have discontinuous relationships with beliefs regarding treatment. Although genetic arguments are positively associated with recommending medical treatment, they are not associated with the perceived likelihood of improvement. The net result of these assorted relationships is little change in overall levels of tolerance over time. Because of the blunt nature of the forces propelling a biomedical view—including the growing popularity of psychiatric medications—altering beliefs about the etiology of mental illness is unlikely, on its own, to increase tolerance.
Workplace interventions for people with common mental health problems: evidence review and recommendations
- Author:
- BRITISH OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- British Occupational Health Research Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 96p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This systematic review is designed to provide evidence-based answers to key questions related to mental ill health in the workplace. It is intended to assist managers, occupational health professionals and other interested parties in making management decisions and offering advice in the confidence that they are based on the most robust evidence available. It categorises common mental health problems as those that: occur most frequently and are more prevalent; are mostly successfully treated in primary rather than secondary care settings; and are least disabling in terms of stigmatising attitudes and discriminatory behaviour.
Pulling ourselves together to end discrimination
- Author:
- BIRD Lisa
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 6(4), June 2000, pp.24-27.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
A survey of people with mental health problems has revealed a surprising amount of discrimination and lack of understanding by mental health professionals, family and friends. This article describes that research and its recommendations for change.
Estates of mind
- Author:
- HIRST Judy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.11.99, 1999, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Although people with mental health problems are no longer locked up in asylums, as an inquiry by MIND reports, society has many other ways of shutting them out. Asks how these barriers can be scaled.
Discriminatory attitudes to people with intellectual disability or mental health difficulty
- Authors:
- LAU Joseph Tak-fai, CHEUNG Chau-Kiu
- Journal article citation:
- International Social Work, 42(4), October 1999, pp.431-444.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The integration of people with intellectual disability and mental health difficulty in the community is an issue in Hong Kong because it has encountered public resistance. Understanding the public's discrimination against them is of theoretical and practice concern. This survey of residents in Hong Kong examined associations of the public's personal interaction, education, age and sex with its discriminatory attitudes.