Career Services for Young Adults with Serious Mental Health Conditions: Innovations in the Field

Integrating Interventions That Can Support a Career-Oriented Recovery for Young Adults: Building on the Supported Education Knowledge Base

“…[19,30,34,44,63]). Other barriers to studies include; poor academic self-confidence, a lack of academic abilities and challenges in coping with stress [4,18,19,46,63,65] a lack of social skills [19,46,63,65,69], stigma [4,34], and economic problems [39,44,63]. There seems therefore to be a clear necessity for support and guidance from several different stakeholders with varied responsibilities to collaborate in supporting these needs (e.g.…”

“…There seems therefore to be a clear necessity for support and guidance from several different stakeholders with varied responsibilities to collaborate in supporting these needs (e.g. [18,36]). An additional challenge described was that of identifying ongoing funding for services [25,38].…”

“…[5,47,63]), and these often in combination with each other (e.g. [18,24,43]) in the same program. These services were based in a variety of settings (community mental health centers, college/universities, clubhouses), either in coordination with other services or as a free-standing activity.…”

“…person-centered services. SEd specialists support the individual to set goals based on resources and needs, matching requirements based on individual capacity, following up, encouraging, motivating, informing, orienting and coordinating support from different actors based on emerging needs [18,25,45,50,67,70]. Individualized support that follows the student over time is described as a basic component in the services provided (e.g.…”

“…Individualized support that follows the student over time is described as a basic component in the services provided (e.g. [8,18,25,36,39,42,51,60]). The support is most often described as provided by an SEd-specialist, although in some cases the educational focus may be part of a broader responsibility area [17,39].…”