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Employing strong support
- Author:
- DENT Emma
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 1.12.11 supplement, 2011, p.7.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Having a job can promote mental health recovery, yet stigma often means disclosure of a mental health problem can lead to someone being forced out of the job or finding it hard to gain employment. The benefits of work retention schemes and individual placement and support schemes are discussed.
Work, employment, and mental illness: expanding the domain of Canadian social work
- Authors:
- SHANKA Janki, BARLOW Constance A., KHALEMA Ernest
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, 10(4), October 2011, pp.268-283.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Social work literature conclusively shows that people who experience mental health issues perceive work as fundamental to their recovery. However, despite evidence that work and employment are an important component of recovery for people who experience mental illness, social work education in Canada seldom offers graduate training or courses on the significance of work in peoples' lives or on the practices involved in helping to gain and retain employment for these individuals. In this article the authors suggest that the high levels of unemployment among people who experience mental illness, and the rising incidence of mental health and addictions issues in workplaces, offer the opportunity, as well as the mandate, for social work educators to provide professional education in the area of employment support and assistance. The article discusses how social workers can overcome the barriers to employment, and how they can support employees with mental illness make a successful return to work.
Work and the mental health crisis in Britain
- Authors:
- WALKER Carl, FINCHAM Ben
- Publisher:
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 196p.
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
There is longstanding interest in the relationship between mental health and work. This book suggests that the impact of neoliberal social and economic activity in the UK over recent years has meant the return of potentially debilitating forms of subjugation and exploitation. More people now struggle for fewer jobs of increasing intensity, reduced legal protection and lower real wages. The book, based on recent data gathered from employees and managers, challenges the cultural maxim that work benefits people with mental health difficulties, and illustrates how particular cultures and perceptions can contribute to a crisis of mental well–being at work. It fills a need for an up–to–date, detailed work that explores the ways that mental health and work experiences are constructed, negotiated, constrained and at times, marginalised. It is designed for academics and professionals who work in the mental health sphere, but also accessible to interested lay readers
Does mental health affect continued participation in the workfare program? The South Korean case
- Authors:
- YOO Tae Kyun, LEE Sun Hae
- Journal article citation:
- International Social Work, 54(4), July 2011, pp.551-564.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The Self-Sufficiency Program (SSP) is a workfare programme in South Korea which assists economically disadvantaged people who are deemed to be capable of working but are unlikely to be employed. These people are required to participate in the SSP in lieu of receiving public assistance benefits. However, there are no systematic procedures to assess the participant’s psychological capability to work or to participate in the SSP. The aim of this study was to examine the existence of mental health problems as a significant risk factor for determining the duration of participation in the SSP. The data were derived from interviews of SSP participants recruited at 12 SSP agency sites in Seoul and the surrounding Kyung-gi province. The interviews analysed for this paper were of 264 individuals who either stayed in the programme or left for reasons other than employment or self-employment. The findings showed that the individuals with poor mental health were 4 times as likely as those without mental health problems to leave the workfare programme for negative reasons. The article concludes that strategies need to be developed for mental health screening and service provision, referral and monitoring among South Korean workfare programme participants.
Healthy work plan
- Author:
- MARMION Laura
- Journal article citation:
- Open Mind, 166, May 2011, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- MIND
The Healthy Work Plan is a simple tool which enables communication between employers and employees about the management of mental health in the workplace. The Plan does not disclose diagnosis but identifies a number of issues including trigger factors, warning signs, people to be contacted and reasonable adjustments that might need to be made.
Getting the right result
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, June 2011, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
CMG and Pure Innovations is a national non-for-profit employment scheme that helps people with learning disabilities and mental health needs to get into work. This article describes how the scheme worked with and supported one of their clients, who had mild learning disabilities and mental health needs, so he was able to secure a permanent job.
Increasing the employment rate for people with longer-term mental health problems
- Authors:
- RINALDI Miles, MONTIBELLER Tatiana, PERKINS Rachel
- Journal article citation:
- Psychiatrist (The), 35(9), September 2011, pp.339-343.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
People with mental health problems, especially those accessing secondary services, often experience low rates of employment. However many continue to regard employment as a yardstick of recovery. The low priory given to employment by mental health professionals and low expectation of being able to gain employment by the patients themselves contribute to the problem. This study examined the effects of implementing the individual placement and support (IPS) approach within four community mental health teams (CMHTs) in London. A full-time employment specialist was working in each CMHT and independent assessment confirmed that high quality IPS was being delivered. Demographic, clinical and vocational data were collected through a repeated cross-sectional survey and a service user experience survey was carried out. The IPS approach appeared to have a significant effect on the employment rates for service users, including those with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. A higher proportion felt able to return to employment and a smaller proportion believed they were unable to work because of their mental health problems. Employment rates for service users appeared to be independent of general employment rates.
Work therapy: welfare reform and mental health in California
- Author:
- CHANDLER Daniel
- Journal article citation:
- Social Service Review, 85(1), March 2011, pp.109-133.
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
California has set aside Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) funds for counties to use in identifying and treating welfare participants experiencing mental health problems that impede employment. Los Angeles County spends $23 million annually on mental health services for welfare participants. This study examined mental health treatment in Los Angeles County as a means for improving the employment outcomes of TANF participants with psychiatric disabilities. The participants were a sample of 433 TANF participants whose mental health services ended between March 2004 and February 2005. Detailed reports from Department of Mental Health (DMH) staff on clients’ status and treatment were analysed. The staff reported that 70% of the sample members had positive change in their mental health status. However, only 17% of the clients completed the treatment successfully, and only 26% reported employment at discharge or in the 6 months after discharge. Analyses suggested that predictors of completing services successfully differ from predictors of employment. Further, successful completion of treatment did not predict employment. Some of these results are disappointing. County staff are restructuring these mental health services in order to improve these outcomes.
The clinical and occupational effectiveness of condition management for Incapacity Benefit recipients
- Authors:
- KELLET Stephen, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 50(2), June 2011, pp.164-177.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Condition Management Programmes (CMP) were established with the goal of helping Incapacity Benefit recipients manage their health conditions more effectively and thus return to work. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of CMP by examining the clinical and employment outcomes from 2,064 participants with a variety of physical and mental health conditions. In a prospective cohort design, measures of employment status and psychological well-being were taken at 3 time points; prior to CMP, immediately following CMP, and 3-months after completing CMP. The participants voluntarily attended a 7 session cognitive-behaviourally informed psychoeducational group intervention. The psychological measures used were the Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation-Outcome Measure, Work and Social Adjustment Scale, Self-Efficacy Scale, and the Intrinsic Motivation Scale. The findings showed that following CMP, 50% of participants experienced a reliable improvement in psychological well-being and 26% had either taken some steps towards work or returned to work at follow-up. Participants with a mental health condition were more likely to experience a reliable improvement in psychological well-being compared to those with physical health conditions. The results suggest that participation in CMP may be helpful in facilitating more effective self-management of the health conditions contributing to unemployment.
Mental health: poverty, ethnicity and family breakdown: interim policy briefing
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
- Publisher:
- Centre for Social Justice
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 19p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report examines the relationship between poverty and mental ill-health. The report examines: the role that family breakdown, addictions, worklessness, and traumatic experiences play in triggering or causing different kinds of mental disorders and how mental health problems contribute to further social breakdown; the particular challenges faced by serving and retiring military personnel who have experienced trauma in combat; successful models of care and the returns on investment from these and the overall efficiency and effectiveness of our mental health services; the merits of and means for achieving an overarching public health approach to mental health; is the balance right between medical and social interventions; are services geared towards maintenance or recovery; what accounts for the relatively high proportion of BME mental health sufferers and what should be done about this; how well child and adolescent mental health services are integrated with adult services; and access to justice and back-to-work support for those suffering from mental illness. The report concludes that, although spending on mental health is disproportionately low given the high overall disease burden that it represents, it is vital that the £10.4 billion we do spend is allocated effectively.