Employment Handbook Case Study

Meltzer et al., (1995) argues that the unemployed and unskilled have more mentally unstable symptoms compared to those in employment. Also, the fear of being unemployed and job insecurity has a disadvantageous effect on health (Bartley et al., 1996).

People with mental illness struggle to fit into society. They may feel socially awkward, causing feelings of loneliness or isolation. Likewise, those with mental illness are more likely to be unemployed because of anxiety or fears. Without having a job or way to

A program is implemented when a social problem needs to be address, an agency is interested in addressing a need or the agency would like to serve a specific (Grinnell, Gabor, & Unrau, 2015). For this discussion, I will discuss the program my employment implements. Currently, I am employed at a college as a retention specialist in the college prep department. The college has three campuses and two retention specialists are housed at each campus. The program is called inspire success and the goal is to address the need/ barrier of students in the college prep department and to help students succeed through intervention, empowering, advocating, and to connect students to on campus services or community resources.

Getting the applicants a job, the system will be able to monitor the pay for a year. This way if you continue to work plus receive assistance, the assistance can be cut if you are getting a steady paycheck. Once a steady paycheck is coming in, your assistance will be evaluated to determine if it will be terminated. If for some reason the

Employers could work alongside support networks e.g. social workers, family and friends. In order to stabilise the youth ex-offenders quality of life.

95). The 1992 amendments were set into place to improve these numbers. However, over a decade has gone by and there are still barriers that have not been broken down. Many employers will not employ someone with a psychiatric disability thus resulting in “underemployment of the subpopulation with only one third of individuals being competitively employed at one time” (Schutt & Hursh, 2009, p.53-54). Job retention has also become a growing concern because meaningful employment has been difficult to quantify. In addition to the majority of the psychiatric disability population being unemployed, those that are employed “work entry-level job positions with low pay and little chance of advancement leading to limited opportunities for improvement in the quality of their lives” (Ackerman & McReynolds, 2005, p. 36). “Job retention is an important psychosocial goal, which is not often achieved” (Schutt et al., 2009, p.53). “The main reason individuals with psychiatric disabilities leave jobs is due to interpersonal and personal problems more than quality of work” (MacDonald-Wilson, Rogers, & Massaro, 2003, p.16). It was also found that most had “poor motivation or job responsibility” (Rimmerman, Botuck, & Levy, 1995, p. 41).

The significance of work for their good mental health was mentioned by the majority of the respondents. For instance, a respondent mentioned that having a job is important for not having to stay home and think about all the negative events that are happening in life (Labonté et al, 2015). These people used to have a job for a limited period of time, then they would be laid off and will find another job somehow, but they never had enough

I believe that being unemployed for a prolonged period may be a detriment to physical and mental health due to overwhelming stress. The idea of unemployment being detrimental to health correlates with Pharr’s (2012) and Janlert’s (2014) researches on the impact of unemployment on mental and physical health. Both concluded similarly that people who have been unemployed for prolonged period have poor mental health compared to the employed, Pharr (2012) also stated that unemployed people are hesitant to receive medical treatment for physical health due to cost. Stress contributes to poor mental health but also feelings of disappointment and shame towards

There are many benefits to the creation of the role of 'generic' mental health workers, also known as support worker. However, there are also some drawbacks. These roles do not require much training and people can take up these positions without any previous experience or qualifications. On one hand this can be a positive situation where on the job training can take place. Where a candidate joins an organisation without the relevant qualifications, they usually have reasonable targets set to become qualified at least to NVQ 2 or 3 standard in health and social care.

The National Supported Work (NSW) Demonstration study was an experiment that took individuals with long-term employment problems and randomly assigned them to either receive or not receive a job training program. The goal of this program was to show that these job training programs work, in that they help people get better, higher paying jobs. The results of the study supported that. They showed that on average the earnings of the treated group after

As schizophrenic patients have a functional psychotic disability they have a lower rate of employment. A cost assessment in Australia estimated that if schizophrenics had the same rate of employment as people without the disease then there would have been an additional 13,210 people in the workforce with an average wage

with regards to mental ill-health: counseling, flexible working options/improved work-life balance and employee assistance programmers, training to line managers to effectively manage and support staff

Employment Services – education, training and employment opportunities to enhance individual employability and develop skills for long time employment. These include:

A literature review illustrates how vital job placement services have been found to be in the job employment assistance endeavors. The review of previous studies reveals the “receipt of placement services” to be the “strongest predictor of employment outcomes” (Fleming et al., 2014, p. 7). A 2006 study characterized job placement as “the driving force behind the vocational rehabilitation program” (Fleming et al., 2014, p. 7). According to the researchers, the public Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) services have attained the status of “the most important vocational programs for persons with disabilities” (Fleming et al., 2014, p. 7). The authors cite the number of “new applicants [registered] nationally” as 564,908, in the 2011 Fiscal Year alone, as proof of the organization’s heavy caseload of new clients (Fleming et al., 2014, p. 7). These numbers indicate that rehabilitation services have been in high demand. Considering the importance of the vocational programs in assisting the disabled clients who are in need of employment, the authors determined that it was appropriate to examine the different ways these services can be rendered.

The evidence that unemployment has negative effects on mental health is strong. Mental health effects on young unemployed people include low self esteem and confidence