Deborah R. Becker, Robert E. Drake

A Working Life for People with Severe Mental Illness (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190284954
• Artikelnr.: 42727304

Autorenporträt

Drake, Robert E. (both of the New Hampshire-Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center, USA)

Inhaltsangabe

* Part I: Conceptual and Empirical Support for Individual Placement and
Support
* 1: Introduction
* 2: Conceptual, Historical and Ideological Underpinnings of Supported
Employment
* 3: Theoretical Underpinnings of Individual Placement and Support
(IPS)
* 4: Introduction to the IPS Approach to Supported Employment
* 5: Research on IPS
* Part II: Practice Guidelines for Implementing Supported Employment
* 6: Introduction to IPS
* 7: The Structure of IPS in the Mental Health Agency
* 8: Getting Started
* 9: Comprehensive, Work-based Assessment
* 10: Finding Jobs
* 11: Maintaining Jobs
* Part III: Special Issues
* 12: Dual Diagnosis and Work
* 13: Highly Trained Individuals and Work
* 14: Supported Education
* 15: Work and Cultural Competence
* 16: Conclusions
* Appendices:
* 1: Individual Employment Plan
* 2: Vocational Profile
* 3: Job Descriptions: Employment Specialist, Employment Coordinator
* 4: Sample Letter to Employers
* 5: Supported Employment Fidelity Scale and Implementation Questions