Helping Persons with Severe Mental Retardation Get and Keep Employment
Helping Persons with Severe Mental Retardation Get and Keep Employment

Author: M. Sherril Moon

Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13:

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Supported employment has greatly changed the work histories and vocational outcomes of thousands of persons with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities. Unfortunately, many programs exclude those individuals supported employment was designed to assist. Many individuals with severe mental retardation have difficulty finding and keeping employment due to their mental disability ; the persence of interfering, challenging behaviors ; and/or other disabling conditions. This hands-on resource provides explicit strategies, based on extensive field testing and use in community job training, for addressing issues and methods in supported employment for persons with functional, severe, or profound mental retardation. Essential to employment specialists, special educators, and vocational program managers, this field-tested guide supplies : - employment outcomes appropriate for persons with severe mental retardation ; - steps and activities required to develop a situational assessment site ; - strategies for job development, finding an employment niche, and selling supported employment services ; - steps to employ in job-site training to include orienation, skill acquisition, and performance stabilization ; - advocacy guidelines for maintaining competitive employment. Included are implementation guidelines, illustrative graphs and charts, sample letters, forms, and checklists - all designed to enhance the employability of persons with severe mental retardation.

A Working Life for People with Severe Mental Illness
A Working Life for People with Severe Mental Illness

Author: Deborah R. Becker

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2003-06-12

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 0198030061

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Traditional approaches to vocational rehabilitation, such as skills training classes, job clubs, and sheltered employment, have not been successful in helping people with severe mental illness gain competitive employment. Supported employment, in which clients are placed in jobs and then trained by on-site coaches, is a radically new conceptual approach to vocational rehabilitation designed for people with developmental disabilities. The Individual Placement and Support (IPS) method utilizes the supported employment concept, but modifies it for use with the severely mentally ill. It is the only approach that has a strong empirical research base: rates of competitive employment are 40% or more in IPS programs, compared to 15% in traditional mental health programs. The third volume in the Innovations in Practice and Service Delivery with Vulnerable Populations series, this will be extremely useful to students in psychiatric rehabilitation programs and social work classes dealing with the severely mentally ill, as well as to practitioners in the field.

Individual Placement and Support
Individual Placement and Support

Author: Robert E. Drake

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2012-11-15

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 0199734011

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This comprehensive monograph synthesizes the research on the Individual Placement and Support model of supported employment for people with severe mental illness. It identifies empirical foundations for core principles of the model and reviews the literature on effectiveness, long-term outcomes, cost-effectiveness, generalizability, implementation, and policy implications.

The Americans with Disabilities Act and the Emerging Workforce
The Americans with Disabilities Act and the Emerging Workforce

Author: Peter David Blanck

Publisher: AAMR

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780940898523

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A pioneering reference for the community of people with mental retardation, their families, employers, lawyers, researchers, and policy makers. Based on empirical research and legal analysis, examines the antidiscrimination protections set out in the US act regarding employment. Especially considers

Supported Employment
Supported Employment

Author: Paul Wehman

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13:

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Supported Employment is a practical, comprehensive guide aimed at supported employment professionals. The text provides information on job development, client assessment, and job site training. It also includes critical analyses of the various models and of the influence of the family in job selection. Critical management issues such as staffing, program evaluation, conversion, vocational integration, and effective use of counsellors are covered in depth.

Providing Employment Support for People with Long-term Mental Illness
Providing Employment Support for People with Long-term Mental Illness

Author: Laurie Howton Ford

Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13:

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More than ever before, people with mental illness want to be able to secure and sustain meaningful employment in their communities. Providing Employment Support for People with Long-Term Mental Illness: Choices, Resources, and Practical Strategies provides the proven techniques and useful information needed to help people with mental illness become part of the nation's work force. Offering probing discussion of mental illness as well as valuable insight into the "ins and outs" of seeking and maintaining competitive work, this comprehensive handbook addresses vital concerns such as vocational assessment and career development; family involvement in vocational planning; social skills and behavior management; crisis intervention; and workers' rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Filled with illustrative case studies and reproducible forms and checklists, this informative volume is essential for all who support workers with mental illness, including job development and placement specialists, supported employment professionals, vocational rehabilitation counselors, and mental health practitioners.