A Working Life for People with Severe Mental Illness (Hardcover, New)

Traditional approaches to vocational rehabilitation, such as skills training classes, job clubs, and sheltered employment, have not been successful in helping people with severe mental illness gain competitive employment. Supported employment, in which clients are placed in jobs and then trained by on-site coaches, is a radically new conceptual approach to vocational rehabilitation designed for people with developmental disabilities. The Individual Placement and Support (IPS) method utilizes the supported employment concept, but modifies it for use with the severely mentally ill. It is the only approach that has a strong empirical research base: rates of competitive employment are 40% or more in IPS programs, compared to 15% in traditional mental health programs. The third volume in the Innovations in Practice and Service Delivery with Vulnerable Populations series, this will be extremely useful to students in psychiatric rehabilitation programs and social work classes dealing with the severely mentally ill, as well as to practitioners in the field.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Innovations in Practice and Service Delivery with Vulnerable Populations
Release date:	May 2003
First published:	June 2003
Authors:	Deborah R. Becker (Assistant Research Professor of Community and Family Medicine and of Psychiatry) • Robert E. Drake (Andrew Thomson Jr. Professor of Psychiatry and of Community and Family Medicine)
Dimensions:	241 x 158 x 164mm (L x W x H)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	232
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-513121-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Work & labour Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Disability: social aspects Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > Mental health services Promotions
LSN:	0-19-513121-5
Barcode:	9780195131215

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