Employing persons with serious mental illness

Health Affairs

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 242-253

  Mechanic, David ^a,b   Bilder, Scott ^c   McAlpine, Donna D ^c  

^a Universidad de Rutgers   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; ECONOMICS; EMPLOYMENT; FAMILY SIZE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INSURANCE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL PATIENT; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SECURITY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EMPLOYMENT; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INSURANCE, DISABILITY; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIAL SECURITY; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036717398     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.21.5.242     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. D.D. McAlpine and L. Warner, Barriers to Employment among Persons with Mental Impairments: A Review of the Literature (New Brunswick, N.J.: Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, 2001), 2-4; J.L. Mashaw and V.P. Reno, eds., The Environment of Disability Income Policy: Programs, People, History, and Context (Washington: National Academy of Social Insurance, 1996), 47-51; and J.L. Mashaw and V.P. Reno, Balancing Security and Opportunity: The Challenge of Dtsability Income Policy (Washington: NASI, 1996), 63-64.
2. D.D. McAlpine and L. Warner, Barriers to Employment among Persons with Mental Impairments: A Review of the Literature (New Brunswick, N.J.: Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, 2001), 2-4; J.L. Mashaw and V.P. Reno, eds., The Environment of Disability Income Policy: Programs, People, History, and Context (Washington: National Academy of Social Insurance, 1996), 47-51; and J.L. Mashaw and V.P. Reno, Balancing Security and Opportunity: The Challenge of Dtsability Income Policy (Washington: NASI, 1996), 63-64.
3. D.D. McAlpine and L. Warner, Barriers to Employment among Persons with Mental Impairments: A Review of the Literature (New Brunswick, N.J.: Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, 2001), 2-4; J.L. Mashaw and V.P. Reno, eds., The Environment of Disability Income Policy: Programs, People, History, and Context (Washington: National Academy of Social Insurance, 1996), 47-51; and J.L. Mashaw and V.P. Reno, Balancing Security and Opportunity: The Challenge of Dtsability Income Policy (Washington: NASI, 1996), 63-64.
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8. There is abundant evidence that treatment reduces periods of incapacity and distress. Although most clinicians believe that earlier treatment also reduces later disability, and there is theoretical basis for this view, the evidence on this point, thus far, is less certain. See R.M.G. Normand and A.K. Malla, "Duration of Untreated Psychosis: A Critical Examination of the Concept and Its Importance," Psychological Medicine 31, no. 3 (2001): 381-400; and P. McGorry, "Secondary Prevention of Mental Disorders," in Textbook of Community Psychiatry, ed. G. Thornicroft and G. Szmukler (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 495-508.
9. There is abundant evidence that treatment reduces periods of incapacity and distress. Although most clinicians believe that earlier treatment also reduces later disability, and there is theoretical basis for this view, the evidence on this point, thus far, is less certain. See R.M.G. Normand and A.K. Malla, "Duration of Untreated Psychosis: A Critical Examination of the Concept and Its Importance," Psychological Medicine 31, no. 3 (2001): 381-400; and P. McGorry, "Secondary Prevention of Mental Disorders," in Textbook of Community Psychiatry, ed. G. Thornicroft and G. Szmukler (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 495-508.
10. Mechanic, Mental Health and Social Policy, 106-108.
11. P.J. Mrazek and R.J. Haggerty, eds., Reducing Risks for Mental Disorders: Frontiers for Preventive Intervention Research (Washington: National Academy Press, 1994), 315-317; and Mechanic, Mental Health and Social Policy, 179-185.
12. P.J. Mrazek and R.J. Haggerty, eds., Reducing Risks for Mental Disorders: Frontiers for Preventive Intervention Research (Washington: National Academy Press, 1994), 315-317; and Mechanic, Mental Health and Social Policy, 179-185.