To review employment interventions for individuals who experience mental illness.
Method:
I reviewed employment interventions described in the mental health, disability, and rehabilitation literature for the period 1990 to 2005 and organized these interventions into a framework.
Results:
The framework develops 7 distinct individual-level employment interventions as well as interventions directed at the employer and at workplace organization. It also considers factors that will affect access to these interventions. Although there is a sense of optimism about the potential of these interventions, research in the area is limited.
Conclusion:
Physicians who are knowledgeable about the nature and scope of employment interventions for individuals with mental illness are in a good position to effect positive change in the work lives of the individuals they serve.
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