How consumers of mental health services come to understand their potential for work: Doing and becoming revisited

Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 195-207

  Gewurtz, Rebecca ^a   Kirsh, Bonnie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mental illness; Occupation; Work potential

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSUMER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; WELLBEING; WORK; WORK CAPACITY; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PATIENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PATIENTS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WORK;

EID: 34447636941     PISSN: 00084174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2182/cjot.06.014     Document Type: Review

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