Vocational Services and Outcomes of Psychiatric Clients from a Midwestern State

Abstract

This study examined services received and outcomes of clients with psychiatric disabilities of a Midwestern public rehabilitation program. More specifically, multiple regression analysis was used to determine the relationship between specific vocational services, demographic factors and service outcomes of clients with psychiatric disabilities. The specific vocational outcome of interest was weekly earnings at closure. The twelve predictor variables included in the model were (a) Age, (b) Race, (c) Education, (d) Public assistance, (e) Restoration, (f) College/University, (g) Business/Vocational, (h) Adjustment, (i) Miscellaneous, (j) Placement, (k) Transportation, and (l) Maintenance. The results of the multiple regression analysis revealed that the most parsimonious model for predicting weekly earnings of successful closures included six predictor variables: education, public assistance, placement, college/university training, business/vocational training and adjustment training.

Employment programmes for schizophrenia and other severe mental illness in psychosocial rehabilitation: a systematic review

“…Work and employment are the fundamental outcomes and predictors of recovery in psychosocial rehabilitation for severe mental illness (SMI) especially schizophrenia. Limited evidence to suggest the 'best' intervention approach has given researchers and healthcare workers different perspectives on rehabilitation for employment (Gere and Flowers, 2016). Clients with schizophrenia face the biggest challenge in finding, keeping and maintaining a job due to various barriers such as stigma, low self-esteem, social and cognitive incompetence and poor social support; only 10-39% manage to obtain and keep a job (Jonsdottir and Waghorn, 2015;McGurk et al, 2005;Marwaha and Johnson, 2004).…”