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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
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Organising for work: a job clinic for people with mental health needs
- Authors:
- McCRI Brian W., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 6(5), October 1997, pp.503-513.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Enabling people with psychiatric disorders to gain job opportunities presents a formidable challenge to mental health and vocational rehabilitation workers. Successful programmes emphasise careful assessment and treatment planning processes, job tailoring, interventions to assist work adjustment and continuing support and involvement from the vocational rehabilitation team. This article describes the first 15 months' operation of such a scheme in Northern Ireland. It has succeeded in overcoming organisational barriers to vocational rehabilitation and at the time of writing the majority of the clients are engaged in employment, work training or educational activities. Highlights the need for additional client support and careful continued monitoring.
Opening doors for young people
- Authors:
- DEVLIN Ciara, McELLIGOTT Karen, O'NEILL Justin
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 11(2), May 2007, pp.31-34.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The Junction is a unique mental health service for young people between the ages of 18 and 25 in Northern Ireland. It is a social outlet that provides opportunities to meet new friends and develop new skills that could support entry into training and employment. This article describes what it offers, and the benefits reported by young people.
Implementation of the JOBS programme in Ireland
- Authors:
- BARRY Margaret M., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Public Mental Health, 5(4), December 2006, pp.10-25.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article reports on the implementation and evaluation of the JOBS programme in Ireland. This is a training intervention to promote re-employment and improve mental health among unemployed people that was implemented on a pilot basis in the border region of the Republic and Northern Ireland. Programme participants were unemployed people recruited from local training and employment offices and health agencies. The unemployed people involved in the study also included some mental health service users. The evaluation indicated that the programme was implemented successfully and led to improved psychological and re-employment outcomes for the intervention group, lasting up to 12 months post-intervention. This paper reflects on the implementation issues that arose in adapting an international evidence-based programme to the local setting and considers the implications of the evaluation findings for the roll out of the programme on a larger scale.
My brother's keeper: the community response to the resettlement of former long stay psychiatric patients in a small town in Northern Ireland
- Author:
- MANKTELOW Roger
- Publisher:
- University of East Anglia
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 112p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Norwich
Report from an action research project by a social worker working in the field of rehabilitation of people with mental health problems into the community. The development of community care services is described, as well as the lives of the former patients, and the attitudes of local people towards them.