Search results for ‘Subject term:"mental health problems"’ Sort:
Results 1 - 10 of 12
Double trouble: exploring the labour market and mental health impact of Covid-19 on young people
- Authors:
- SEHMI Rukmen, SLAUGHTER Hannah
- Publisher:
- Resolution Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2021
- Pagination:
- 53
- Place of publication:
- London
A growing body of evidence has emerged since the start of the pandemic highlighting the negative impact of the Covid-19 crisis on the nation’s living standards and mental health. But to date, few have focused exclusively on the experiences of young people. This report demonstrates the especial vulnerability of this age group: they were at the sharp end of structural changes going into the crisis; have been hardest hit by the pandemic when it comes to both labour market outcomes and their mental health; and are at risk of these experiences having an enduring impact on their longer-term living standards. The report finds that in 2000, 24 per cent of 18-24-year-olds had a common mental disorder (CMD), the lowest rate of any age group. By 2018-2019, that figure had grown to 30 per cent, with young people the age group most likely to have a mental health problem. On the eve of the crisis, four-in-ten (40 per cent) 18-24-year-olds who were unemployed had a CMD, compared to three-in-ten (30 per cent) in insecure work and 27 per cent in secure forms of employment. In January 2021, one-in-five (19 per cent) 18-24-year-olds who were in work before the crisis were no longer working, compared to 4 per cent of 25-54-year-olds and 11 per cent of 55-65-year-olds. And among those young people in insecure work pre-crisis, the share no longer working by January rose to 36 per cent. Half (51 per cent) of 18-24-year-olds had mental health problems in April 2020, up from the 30 per cent in the pre-crisis period and the highest rate for any age group at the outset of the pandemic. In January 2021, more than one-in-four (26 per cent) 18-24-year-olds who had not had a mental health condition before the crisis had a ‘new’ CMD. For 18-21-year-olds, the figure stood at three-in-ten (30 per cent). (Edited publisher abstract)
One size fits all? The social construction of dis-employ-abled women
- Authors:
- VANDEKINDEREN Caroline, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 27(5), August 2012, pp.703-716.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
In Europe, welfare states attempt to increase efforts to employ economically inactive citizens, such as disabled people, according to the norm of economic productivity. This article is based on an evaluation of a labour-market training programme for 17 women with mental health problem in a social workplace in Belgium. The study explored the retrospective insider perspectives on the work aspirations of the women involved in the programme to identify critical dynamics in their high drop-out from the social workplace. The central findings provide evidence of a prevalent one-size-fits-all discourse in these practices wherein complex and interrelated processes of discrimination take place that are based on both disability and gender. The findings demonstrate that the social workplace functions as a male bastion, in which the oversized overalls that women are forced to wear are symbolically relevant. In conclusion, the authors discuss and challenge the dominance of the neo-liberal norm of economic productivity and employability.
Work for health?: exploring the issues around employment and mental health: notes from study day 7th June 2005
- Author:
- SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES NETWORK
- Publisher:
- Social Perspectives Network
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 46p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Summaries of the study day which brought together leading policy makers, survivors, carers, practitioners and educators to look at the issues around employment, mental health and social inclusion through presentations and participatory workshops.
Sick on the job?: myths and realities about mental health and work
- Author:
- ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT
- Publisher:
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Place of publication:
- Paris
Mental illness is responsible for a loss of potential labour supply, high rates of unemployment, and a high incidence of sickness absence and reduced productivity at work. This report aims to investigate the connection between mental health and work, and the drivers behind the labour market outcomes and the level of inactivity of people with mental ill-health. It also reviews the evidence on the main challenges and barriers to better integrating people with mental illness in the world of work. Chapters cover: Measuring Mental Health and its Links with Employment; Work, Working Conditions and Worker Productivity; Mental Health Systems, Services and Supports; Benefit Systems and Labour Market Services; and Education Systems and the Transition to Employment. The report advocates a new approach in the workplace, which includes good working conditions which reduce and manage stress; systematic monitoring of sick leave behaviour; and help to employers to reduce workplace conflicts and avoid unnecessary dismissal caused by mental health problems.
Balancing care and work: a case study of recognition in a social enterprise
- Authors:
- BLONK L., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 35(6), 2020, pp.972-992.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper discusses a case study of a Dutch work-integration social enterprise (WISE) to add to the debate on the contribution of employment to the citizenship of intellectually disabled people and those experiencing mental health conditions. In current welfare state policies, the value of labour market participation is narrowed down to regular employment, as workplace support and care provisions are seen as stigmatising and segregating. This paper argues that a more nuanced understanding is needed of the intersection of support arrangements with the benefits of employment. Building on ‘recognition theory’ by the German philosopher Honneth, the findings show that the work-integration social enterprise under study is successfully balancing the contrasting demands of logics of care and work, leading to experiences of ‘recognition.’ However, this balance is fragile and does not undo the misrecognition of disabled people as unable to live up to the productivity norms of a capitalist labour market. (Edited publisher abstract)
Open employment opportunities
- Author:
- POZNER Adam
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 3(1), February 1999, pp.29-31.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article profiles a number of initiatives concerned with developing open employment opportunities for individuals with mental health problems - real jobs with market level wages. Four are agencies providing employment support directly to job-seekers, one is a national association promoting the supported employment or job coach model.
One door mental health lived experience framework
- Authors:
- SCHWEIZER Richard, MARKS Ellen, RAMJAN Rob
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Social Inclusion, 22(1), 2018, pp.46-52.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: Recently, the importance of a lived experience workforce in the delivery of mental health services has been demonstrated. The roll-out of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in Australia has generated the need for a significant increase in the disability workforce, including psychosocial disability. The purpose of this paper is to describe the strategies outlined in the One Door Mental Health Lived Experience Framework (LEF), which is the culmination of over 30 years of experience in providing mental health services and the employment of a lived experience workforce. Design/methodology/approach: One Door developed and implemented the LEF, a thorough guide to the employment and support of a workforce of people with lived experience of mental illness, through consultation with consumers, carers, stakeholders, practice advisors, management, human resources and employee focus groups. Findings: Extensive support structures in the LEF are key to achieving the benefits of a lived experience workforce. The LEF has positioned One Door successfully for the achievement of key organisational goals in mental health support and advocacy. Research limitations/implications: Mental health policies and support are critical for productivity outcomes in any workplace regardless of the level of lived experience of the employees. This paper provides organisations, particularly those within the mental health sector, an example to build on in their own employment and support strategies. Originality/value: This paper is of particular value in the context of organisations in the mental health sector transitioning to the NDIS. (Publisher abstract)
Flexibility for who? Millenials and mental health in the modern labour market
- Authors:
- THORLEY Craig, COOK William L.
- Publisher:
- Institute for Public Policy Research
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 64
- Place of publication:
- London
This report explores young peoples’ experiences of work and mental health and wellbeing, focusing on young people born during or after 1982. Using new analysis of population-level survey data, it examines the extent to which the changing nature of work in the UK, with an increasingly flexible labour market, may be affecting the mental health of younger workers. The analysis finds that young people are more likely to be in work characterised by contractual flexibility - including part-time work, temporary work and self-employment; be underemployed, working fewer hours than they would like; and be overqualified for their job role. The analysis suggests that younger workers in part-time and temporary work, those who are underemployed or overqualified are more likely to experience poorer mental health and wellbeing. The report then considers at the role of employers and government to support good mental health and wellbeing in the workplace and the need to ensure that labour market flexibility does not increase the risk of poor mental health and wellbeing. It provides opportunities for action for employers and central and local government. (Edited publisher abstract)
Disability and employment: a social model study of the employment experiences of disabled people in Great Britain, with a focus on mental illness
- Author:
- TRADES UNION CONGRESS
- Publisher:
- Trades Union Congress
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 83
- Place of publication:
- London
This research report looks at the barriers to employment facing disabled people as a whole, and for people with mental health problems specifically, and makes recommendations to improve employment outcomes. Section one provides an analysis of the poorer employment outcomes for disabled people of working age, which include lower employment rates and higher levels of part-time employment. It also examines the different levels of disadvantage faced by disabled women, people whose main disability is related to their mental health, and for older people with a mental health problem. The report finds that disabled women workers face penalties related to both their sex and their disability, and so experience worse employment disability disadvantages than disabled men. People whose disability stems primarily from mental illness also face additional barriers, and are among the least likely to be employed of all disabled people. Section two of the report considers the impacts of recent policy change on the employment of disabled people and people with mental health problems. These include the Equality Act 2010: Reasonable Adjustments Duty, Remploy closures, Access to Work, Work Programme, Work Choice, and Work Capability Assessment for Employment Support Allowance. Section three makes suggestions for policy reforms to improve employment outcomes. These include amendments to the Work Programme to create separate streams tailored to disabled people; the extension of the Work Choice scheme beyond 2015 and improving its ability to support disabled people to obtain employment; and revision of benefits sanctions to engage and support people with mental illness. (Edited publisher abstract)
British social attitudes: 33
- Editors:
- CURTICE John, PHILLIPS Miranda, CLERY Liz
- Publisher:
- NatCen Social Research
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 137
- Place of publication:
- London
Annual British Social Attitudes report which asks a sample of approximately 3,000 people what they think it is like to live in Britain and what they think about how Britain is run. This edition focuses on social class; welfare reform, specifically people's views on reducing expenditure and limiting the circumstances when benefits can be received; employment; dissatisfaction with the NHS and its funding; attitudes to mental health and mental wellbeing; politics; Euroscepticism; and views on Brexit. (Edited publisher abstract)