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Mental Illness and Employment. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Oct 2008, Pages: 128
This book details the development of a theory to
explain the decisions and actions taken by people
with mental illness with regard to employment.
In-depth interviews were conducted with users of
psychiatric services. Some participants were
employed, others were seeking employment, while
others were not engaged in employment-related
activities. The study found that all participants
were engaged in a process of negotiating an
appropriate vocational place. This process is
cyclical, ongoing and dynamic, as individuals' views
and circumstances change.
The findings present a challenge to policy and
practice in which a successful outcome is defined as
obtaining and maintaining a paid position in the
workforce. They provide a framework for
practitioners, policy makers and researchers to
understand the decisions made by people with mental
illness and their actions in relation to employment.
Findings support the notion that substantially
increasing employment rates for people with mental
illness will require change at a number of levels of
society and will not be achieved by merely putting
greater pressure on people with mental illness to
work.
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