Techniques of Industrial Therapy, Ergotherapy, and Recreative Methods

Bennett, Douglas

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“…The importance of work in enhancing the mental health and quality of life of people who experience mental health problems has been widely documented (Bennett, 1975;Shepherd, 1984;Rowland & Perkins, 1988;Nehring et al, 1993;Warner, 1994). As well as an income, employment provides social contacts and social support, status and identity, a means of structuring and occupying time and a sense of personal achievement.…”

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“…As well as an income, employment provides social contacts and social support, status and identity, a means of structuring and occupying time and a sense of personal achievement. Bennett (1975) has characterised work as the performance of a task within prescribed limits to achieve goals set by others, who judge and reward and thereby link the individual to society. Without work, these links are all too easily lost.…”

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Unemployment rates among patients with long-term mental health problems

Perkins

Rinaldi

2002

Psychiatr. bull.

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Aims and MethodTo examine the vocational status of people with longer-term mental health problems in the inner London Borough of Wandsworth. Data collected over 10 years on 1 April each year as part of an annual census of adults with longer-term mental health problems using community mental health and rehabilitation teams were analysed to examine the vocational status of these groups.ResultsWithin the borough unemployment rates among people with longer-term mental health problems increased steadily during the 1990s, despite a decreasing rate of general unemployment for the majority of that period. Unemployment among people with long-term mental health problems increased from 80% in 1990 to 92% in 1999, and the unemployment rates among those with a diagnosis of schizophrenia increased from 88% in 1990 to 96% in 1999.Clinical ImplicationsWork and employment is important in health as well as social functioning. Greater attention to vocational issues in clinical teams is required: the challenge for mental health services is to make employment interventions of demonstrated effectiveness available to all who need them.

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Unemployment rates among patients with long-term mental health problems

Perkins

Rinaldi

2002

Psychiatr. bull.

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“…Examination of the problems of providing vocational rehabilitation, sheltered work and day care leads to similar conclusions (Bennett, 1975;Cross et al 1972;Edwards & Carter, 1979;Wansborough et al 1979;Wing & Hailey, 1972). Provision is inadequate, aims are mixed but sometimes unrealistically high, results are disappointing when seen in the context of high hopes, but nevertheless the quality of life is often reasonably good.…”

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Innovations in social psychiatry

Wing¹

1980

Psychol. Med.

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SYNOPSISSocial psychiatry, like social medicine of which it is a part, has two basic sciences – biology and sociology. People with psychiatric disorders suffer from acute breakdowns or chronic impairments which can be severely disabling in themselves, but these are often precipitated, amplified or maintained by social pressures and social disadvantages and by personal reactions, such as a loss of self-esteem and self-confidence. It is impossible, therefore, to draw a line between the medical and the social aspects of treatment, care and prevention.The chief innovations during the past 40 years have been made in the context of a change-over from a system of care based on large institutions towards a more open but much looser and less-coordinated system of smaller units managed by staff from different professions who have developed their own, sometimes conflicting, views as to the best ways of helping the mentally disabled. Nevertheless, knowledge has accumulated which, if properly applied, could lead to a better quality of life for the ill and disabled and a decrease in the burden placed upon relatives. Further innovations are now required which will lead to the development of a responsible, comprehensive and integrated mental health service.It is not yet known whether social measures taken to relieve or prevent lesser psychiatric disorders will lead to a decrease in the incidence or prevalence of more severe conditions and this question deserves further investigation. There is evidence, however, that relatively inexpensive help can be useful in the short term.Progress will depend upon the accumulation of new knowledge. One of the most encouraging trends has been the improvement of evaluative designs and methods aimed at testing ideas for improving services, thus allowing planners to make better informed decisions.

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“…Already socially excluded as a result of their mental health problems, this exclusion is aggravated by unemployment. Work is the performance of a task within prescribed limits to achieve goals set by others who thereby reward the person, thus linking the individual to society (Bennett, 1975).…”

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Mental Health and Employment

Boardman

2001

Mental Health Review Journal

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Techniques of Industrial Therapy, Ergotherapy, and Recreative Methods

Cited by 9 publications

References 52 publications

Unemployment rates among patients with long-term mental health problems

Unemployment rates among patients with long-term mental health problems

Innovations in social psychiatry

Mental Health and Employment

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