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Successful vocational rehabilitation for individuals with significant mental disabilities
- Author:
- SPENCE Maria A.S.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, 3(1), 2004, pp.37-52.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The services provided to people with significant mental health problems in this American study were designed to address a range of support needs that would foster job retention and increase the number achieving successful employment. This cross-sectional exploratory study sampled 211 people with mental health problems who received vocational rehabilitation support services through a vocational rehabilitation center in Columbus, Ohio. Those sampled experienced both successful and unsuccessful employment closures. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
Bridging the gaps: the role of occupational therapy and opportunities for its development
- Author:
- GODBY Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 6(4), December 2001, pp.21-25.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
Discusses the role of occupational therapy in vocational rehabilitation for people with mental health problems.
The social context of vocational rehabilitation for ex-psychiatric patients
- Author:
- MIDGLEY Gerald
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 156, February 1990, pp.272-277.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Discusses the need for socio-political intervention on behalf of clients as well as rehabilitation service to individual.
Interagency collaboration in vocational rehabilitation for persons with mental health problems: the perspective of the service users and the professionals
- Authors:
- GERMUNDSSON Per, HILLBORG Helene, DANERMARK Berth
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 26(6), 2011, pp.699-713.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
There is, within the European Union, a pronounced aspiration and policy that persons with disabilities should be fully involved in the community, which includes opportunities to gainful employment. Despite this, a very large amount of disabled people remain unemployed, especially persons with mental health problems. This study aimed to investigate how people with mental health problems and caseworkers in different agencies experience the vocational rehabilitation process from an interagency collaboration perspective. The study participants were 20 professionals (16 women and 4 men) working with vocational rehabilitation, and 8 service users (4 women and 4 men) who had been on sick leave for from about 18 months to up to 5 years. Interviews with service users were carried out on 2 occasions approximately 6 months apart, and focused on the individual’s initial and ongoing rehabilitation process. Four focus groups were conducted with the professionals. Analysis of the data revealed a number of hindering factors portrayed and discussed in 6 themes: the time available for rehabilitation; management; new ways of working; absence of an actor; continuity; and consensus. The article concludes by discussing the implications for interagency collaboration in the field of vocational rehabilitation.
Handbook of psychosocial rehabilitation
- Authors:
- KING Robert, LLOYD Chris, MEEHAN Tom
- Publisher:
- Blackwell
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 227p.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
The Handbook of Psychosocial Rehabilitation is designed as a clinical handbook for practitioners in the field of mental health. It recognises the wide-ranging impact of mental illness and its ramifications on daily life. The book promotes a recovery model of psychosocial rehabilitation and aims to empower clinicians to engage their clients in tailored rehabilitation plans. The authors distil relevant evidence from the literature, but the focus is on the clinical setting. Coverage includes the service environment, assessment, maintaining recovery-focussed therapeutic relationships, the role of pharmacotherapy, intensive case management and vocational rehabilitation.
Vocational rehabilitation: variety is the key to success
- Author:
- ROBDALE Neil
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, September 2008, pp.24-27.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Various approaches to vocational rehabilitation have been used over the past 30 years to support people with mental health problems. The main two approaches that have been tried and evaluated are the 'train and place' approach and the 'place and train' model (sometimes referred to as individual placement and support (IPS)). The idea of a social firm has also been advocated. This article evaluates these approaches in relation to mental health service users and compares them with traditional industrial therapy.
Mental health vocational rehabilitation: an overview of occupational therapy service provision in Northern Ireland
- Authors:
- DEVLIN Ciara, BURNSIDE Lesley, AKROYD Lorna
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 69(7), July 2006, pp.334-338.
- Publisher:
- Sage
http://www.cot.co.uk/Homepage/Library_and_Publications/British_Journal_of_Occupational_Therapy_(BJOT)/
Person-related predictors of employment outcomes after participation in psychiatric vocational rehabilitation programmes: a systematic review
- Authors:
- MICHON Harry W. C., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 40(5), May 2005, pp.408-416.
- Publisher:
- Steinkopff
Although the importance of psychiatric vocational rehabilitation (PVR) programmes in helping those with severe mental illness to find and keep jobs is increasingly accepted, relatively little is known about the factors affecting PVR outcomes. This review covers eight studies (reported in 16 publications) using multivariate analysis of longitudinal data, which analysed employment outcomes after at least six months’ participation, and which analysed at least three predictor domains. Positive employment outcomes were related to better work performance during PVR participation, better self-efficacy and, to a lesser extent, better social functioning during PVR participation. Contrary to the findings of previous reviews, the influence of past functioning (such as work history and psychiatric history) is outweighed by past performance in PVR. Further, more rigorous, research is called for.
Impact of multi-agency employment services on employment rates
- Authors:
- PANDIANI John A., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 40(4), August 2004, pp.333-345.
- Publisher:
- Springer
Adults with severe and persistent mental illness who received employment services through mental health and/or vocational rehabilitation programs had higher employment rates than individuals who did not receive any employment services. Individuals who received services from both programmes had significantly higher employment rates than individuals who received services from only one program. Results indicate that employment services had a greater relative effect on older clients and clients with a schizophrenia diagnosis than on other individuals. This state-wide study relied exclusively on analysis of administrative/operational databases that provide the employment rates for both recipients of vocational services and other clients.
Vocational rehabilitation: the Enable employment retention scheme, a new approach
- Author:
- ROBDALE Neil
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 67(10), October 2004, pp.457-460.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Enable is a groundbreaking service piloted in Shropshire to provide support for people with mental health problems in order for them to return to work. It began in October 2002 and proved so successful it has been extended and re-funded on a permanent basis into the future. Because of social and economic changes over the past decade the time seems right for occupational therapists to involve themselves in employment. Makes the case for this new type of vocational rehabilitation.