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Talent down the drain
- Author:
- SOUTHORN Richard
- Journal article citation:
- Openmind, 106, November 2000, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Outlines how and why employers need to make adjustments to support employees with mental health problems.
Challenging personal capability assessments
- Author:
- BOLTON Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 3(11), July 2000, p.383.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
What if the Benefits Agency declares you fit for work and you don't agree. The author describes the experiences of one woman with mental health problems.
Partners for progress: employers working with people with disabilities
- Author:
- BREUER Zoey
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 4(1), February 2000, pp.25-27.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Over the past five years many mental health organisations have participated in the European Union's HORIZON programme - a sub-division of the employment community initiative. As a result of this programme many innovative schemes supporting disabled and disadvantaged people in obtaining and keeping jobs have been set up in Britain and across Europe. This article summarises the work that has been done to inform and persuade employers that it is in their interest to make use of the skills of disabled people.
An uphill struggle
- Author:
- MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Summary of survey of people with mental health problems, the majority of respondents defining themselves as being of low income. Explores their experiences of deprivation, social exclusion, access to services and working and unemployment
Can LETS make it better. A Stirling example
- Authors:
- MANLEY Catherine, ALDRIDGE Theresa
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 4(4), November 2000, pp.3-10.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article explores the potential of Local Exchange Trading Schemes (LETS) to overcome some of the barriers to participating in meaningful activity for people with severe and enduring mental illness. The struggle for funding is considered to be the key barrier.
Net Working
- Author:
- SEEBOHM Patience
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 4(2), October 2000, pp.68-69.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Describes a new national network which aims to support employment, education and training opportunities for people with mental health problems.
The dynamics of being disabled
- Author:
- BURCHARDT Tania
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy, 29(4), October 2000, pp.645-668.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
In recent years, the dynamics of poverty and unemployment have come under increasing scrutiny, but another of the risks with which the welfare state concerns itself - disability - is still largely understood only in a static sense. This article uses longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey to investigate the complexity behind a cross-sectional snapshot. First, a breakdown is given of the working-age population who are disabled at any one time by the "disability trajectories" they follow over a seven-year period. Second, the expected duration of disability for those who become disabled during working life is examined. The results show that only a small proportion of working age people who experience disability are long-term disabled, although at any one time, long-term disabled people make up a high proportion of all disabled people. Over half of those who become limited in activities of daily living as adults have spells lasting less than two years, but few who remain disabled after four years recover. intermittent patterns of disability, particularly due to mental illness are common. Failing to distinguish the different disability trajectories people follow has led to policies which marginalise disabled people and are costly to the state.
Job assets
- Author:
- DAVIDSON Ben
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 6.1.00, 2000, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Mental health service users often face bias when it comes to work. Describes the User Employment Project that put their experiences to positive advantage.
A social work role: promoting employment equity for people with serious and persistent mental illness
- Authors:
- AKABAS Sheila H., GATES Lauren B.
- Journal article citation:
- Administration in Social Work, 23(3/4), 2000, pp.163-184.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The common wisdom in the treatment community is that most people with serious and persistent mental illness are not candidates for employment. This article reports on a research project in the USA that contests that conclusion with research evidence that supports the potential for a successful work outcome for people with serious and persistent mental illness. The authors describe a model intervention at the workplace that has been used effectively to support that outcome. The authors conclude that achieving equity in employment opportunity for people with serious and persistent mental illness requires a significant change in the education, behaviour, and attitudes of social workers and suggest the measures than can help accomplish that end.
We can work it out: ten mental health service users talk about their experience of moving from benefits to work
- Editors:
- ANAYA Staphanie, et al
- Publisher:
- King's College London. Institute for Applied Health and Social Policy
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 48p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report relates the experiences of ten mental health users who talk about their experiences of moving from benefits to work. They address some of the concerns that users may have about benefits, disclosure, stigma, medication and coping with bad days.