Research on employment for persons with severe mental illness

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...

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Other Authors Fisher, William H.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2004.
SeriesResearch in community and mental health ; v. 13.
Subjects
Mentally ill > Employment.
Mentally ill > Rehabilitation.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781849502863
1849502862
0762311290
9780762311293
ISSN0192-0812 ;
DOI10.1016/S0192-0812(2004)13
Physical Description1 online resource (viii, 131 p. )

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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