Moving Beyond the Illness

Factors Contributing to Gaining and Maintaining Employment

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11053333
AutoresKiran Cunningham (Kalamazoo College USA), Randall Wolbert (ACT of Kalamazoo, Inc. USA), Mary Beth Brockmeier (University of Michigan USA)
Ano2000
Volume28
Fascículo4
Páginas481-494
Data de publicação2000-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Journal of Community Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0091-0562 • E-ISSN: 1573-2770
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1023/a:1005136531079
PMID10965387
OpenAlexW1498140231
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas19

The work presented here, exploratory in nature, uses a comparative and qualitative approach to understand the factors associated with the ability of individuals with severe and persistent mental illness to successfully gain and maintain employment. Based on open‐ended interviews with individuals in an Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) program, we compare the experiences of those who have been successful gaining and maintaining employment, with those who have been successful gaining but not maintaining work, and those who have been unsuccessful gaining employment. The three groups seemed to differ in three significant ways: (1) in the ways the individuals talked about their illness, (2) in the ways the individuals talked about work, and (3) in the strategies they described for coping with bad days. In each of these areas individuals' awareness of and attitude toward their illness was significant. The findings have clear implications for agencies working to help people with severe and persistent mental illness obtain and maintain employment

Assertive community treatment · Assertiveness · Coping (psychology) · Exploratory research · Health psychology · Mental health · Mental illness · Psychiatry · Public health · Qualitative research · Sociology · Supported employment · Work (physics) · Clinical Psychology · Medicine · Mental Health Treatment and Access · Nursing · Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders · Psychology · Schizophrenia research and treatment · Social Psychology