Moving beyond the illness: Factors contributing to gaining and maintaining employment
Moving beyond the illness: Factors contributing to gaining and maintaining employment
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DOI：
10.1023/a:1005136531079
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发表时间：
2000-08-01
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Brockmeier, MB
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作者：
Cunningham, K;Wolbert, R;Brockmeier, MB
这里介绍的工作本质上是探索性的，采用比较和定性的方法来了解与患有严重和持续性精神疾病的个人成功获得和维持就业的能力相关的因素。基于对自信社区治疗 (A CT) 计划中个人的开放式访谈，我们比较了那些成功获得并维持就业的人、那些成功获得但未能维持工作的人以及那些未能成功获得就业的人的经历。这三个群体似乎在三个方面存在显着差异：（1）个人谈论疾病的方式，（2）个人谈论工作的方式，以及（3）他们描述的应对糟糕日子的策略。在每个领域，个人对疾病的认识和态度都很重要。研究结果对于致力于帮助患有严重和持续性精神疾病的人获得和维持就业的机构具有明显的意义。
The work presented here, exploratory in nature, uses a comparative and qualitative approach to understand the factors associated with the ability of individuals with severe and persistent mental illness to successfully gain and maintain employment. Based on open-ended interviews with individuals in an Assertive Community Treatment (A CT) program we compare the experiences of those who have been successful gaining and maintaining employment, with those who have been successful gaining but not maintaining work, and those who have been unsuccessful gaining employment. The three groups seemed to differ in three significant ways: (1) in the ways the individuals talked about their illness, (2) in the ways the individuals talked about work, and (3) in the strategies they described for coping with bad days. In each of these areas individuals' awareness of and attitude toward their illness was significant. The findings have clear implications for agencies working to help people with severe and persistent mental illness obtain and maintain employment.