Strategies in Working With Chronically Unemployed Mental Patients

Evaluation of the Goal Oriented Adult Learning (GOAL) program.

“…Their overall goal is to enhance the capability of people with psychiatric disabilities to perform "those physi cal, emotional, social, and intellectual skills needed to live, learn, and work in the community, with the least amount of support necessary from agents of the helping profession" (Anthony, 1980). In keeping with the high value placed upon the role of work in this society, the efficacy of psychiatric reha bilitation programs is often measured by post-hospital employment (Anthony, 1980;Hisa and Herman, 1985). Fairly consistent data suggest a full-time competitive employment figure of 20-25% for all persons discharged from psychiatric hospitals.…”