Research on employment for persons with severe mental illness

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Fisher, William H.
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2004.
• Σειρά: Research in community and mental health ; v. 13.
• Θέματα: Mentally ill > Employment.; Mentally ill > Rehabilitation.; Care of the mentally ill.; Political Science > Labor & Industrial Relations.; Social Science > People with Disabilities.

Over the centuries work for persons with severe mental illness has ranged from virtual slave labor to institutional peonage to contemporary rehabilitative programs that seek to assist individuals in re-entering the workplace. How best to do this remains an open question however, and has captured the...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction : work and mental illness - a brief sociological and historical overview / William H. Fisher
• Employment success for people with serious mental illness: a question of person-environment fit? / Alexis D. Henry
• What does competitive employment mean? A secondary analysis of employment approaches in the Massachusetts employment intervention demonstration project / Matthew Johnsen, Colleen McKay, Alexis D. Henry, Thomas D. Manning
• Business as usual: work experiences of homeless persons with mental illness / Susan A. Pickett-Schenk, Judith A. Cook, Jessica A. Jonikas, Michael Banghart
• Employment services and employment outcomes for adults with serious mental illness / John A. Pandiani, Steven M. Banks, Monica M. Simon
• Persons with mental disorders in the competitive labor market: foundations for a research agenda / Marjorie L. Baldwin.