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Enhancing Successful Employment Outcomes for People with a Psychiatric Disability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2015

Maxie Ashton  and
Josephine Dowsett
Maxie Ashton*
Affiliation:
North West Menial Health Service, Adelaide
Josephine Dowsett
Affiliation:
Trainright, South Australia
*
North West Adelaide Mental Health, 78-80 St. Vincent Street, Port Adelaide SA 5015, Australia.
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Abstract

Work, for most people with psychiatric disability, is their most important goal and yet they often have more difficulty getting work and maintaining work than other disability groups. Six focus groups were held with consumers of mental health services to explore the reason for this and identify what rehabilitation services should do about this problem. The groups recommended many strategies which have been divided by the authors into three rehabilitation phases. Three check lists have been developed to assist service providers address the range of needs with consumers during the rehabilitation process and to identify service gaps.

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The Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counselling , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , 1997 , pp. 57 - 64
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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