Serious Mental Illness and Disability in the Adult Household Population: United States, 1989

Barker, Peggy; Manderscheid, R W; Hendershot, Gerry E.; Jack, Susan S.; Schoenborn, Charlotte A.; Goldstrom, Ingrid D.

doi:10.1037/e608882007-001

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“…In a supplement on serious mental illness and disability to the 1989 National Health Interview Study, researchers from the National Institute of Mental Health reported that, even among persons with serious mental illness, fewer than half were unable to work or were limited by their illness in the work they could do. Only 29 percent were described as unable to work at all (Barker et al 1992). The concept of inability to work is itself a fuzzy one that is influenced by the person's past experiences, motivation, incentives for entering a disability program, and the willingness of employers to make accommodations.…”

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Cultural and Organizational Aspects of Application of the Americans with Disabilities Act to Persons with Psychiatric Disabilities

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1998

Milbank Quarterly

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The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires employers to provide reasonable accommodation for persons with psychiatric disabilities. Most persons with a history of mental disorder work productively and do not require accommodation. Many persons with serious mental illness need accommodation but are conscientious and productive workers. Difficulties inherent in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) guidelines are those of differentiating aspects of mental disorder from work-related conduct and the potential for manipulative persons to use the Act to excuse inappropriate behavior and ask for accommodation. A further problem is the potential for discouraging employers from hiring persons with mental illness because of the perceived difficulty of terminating them should their work prove unsatisfactory. If the ADA is to be effective, it must be seen as only one step in a larger process involving public education, effective mediation, meaningful assistance for employers, and wise implementation decisions that account appropriately for the social context.

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Cultural and Organizational Aspects of Application of the Americans with Disabilities Act to Persons with Psychiatric Disabilities

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1998

Milbank Quarterly

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“…Accurately collecting this information is a problem for many self-reported surveys. Data from the 1989 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) show that 2 percent of all adult women and 4 percent of all adults below the poverty threshold have serious mental illness[Barker et al, 1992].…”

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The effect of disabilities on exits from AFDC

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Loprest

1999

J. Pol. Anal. Manage.

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The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 replaces AFDC, the largest means‐tested cash assistance program for low‐income families, with the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant. Unlike AFDC, assistance under TANF is limited to five years in a lifetime, and states are required to move families from the assistance rolls into jobs. But not all adult welfare recipients can easily move to work because either they themselves are disabled or they have a child with disabilities requiring special care. This article examines the extent and impact of disability among families on AFDC to gain insight into the potential impact of changes under TANF. Using data from the 1990 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), we find that in nearly 30 percent of the families on AFDC either the mother or child has a disability. Furthermore, we find that having a disability significantly lowers the probability that a woman leaves AFDC for work but not for other reasons, such as a change in living arrangements. Finally, we find little evidence that having a child with a disability affects the probability of leaving AFDC for any reason. © 1998 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management

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“…In the 1989 National Ambulatory Care Survey, headache, depression, anxiety, and exhaustion were among the most common symptoms Identified by the general patient population as reasons for an office visit (4). In Another recent study, reports of patient fatigue were found to be significantly correlated with health care utilization and increased lifetime and current risk for effective, anxiety, and somatoform disorders (5).…”

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