An Assessment of Characteristics Related to Vocational Success Among Restored Psychiatric Patients

The relationship between patient demographic characteristics and psychiatric rehabilitation outcome

“…Expatients who are married obtain and hold jobs significantly better than their single or divorced counterparts (Goss & Pate, 1967;Hall, Smith, & Shimkunas, 1966;Lorei, 1967;Olshansky, Grob, & Ekdahl, 1960;Wilson, Berry, & Miskimins, 1969). Only Knowlton and Samuelson (1968) report that marital status does not significantly distinguish the employed from the unemployed, although they did find a trend in the expected direction.…”

“…The patients who become gainfully employed tend to have had less previous psychiatric help (Goss & Pate, 1967;Green, Miskimins, & Keil, 1968;Wilson et al, 1969). More specifically, Lorei (1967) found that employed expatients had significantly fewer hospitalizations in the 2-year period prior to the last hospitalization.…”

“…Results have indicated patients diagnosed as anxiety or depressive reactives (Goss & Pate, 1967), neurotics (Knowlton & Samuelson, 1968), neurotics or personality disorders (Wilson et. al., 1969), or nonpsychotics (Fairweather, 1964) have a greater tendency to be employed than psychotics.…”

Predictors of work status and future work orientation in people with a psychiatric disability.

“…For instance, Anthony and Jansen (1984) found that prior employ ment history was the best predictor of vocational outcomes among persons with psychiatric disabilities; while ill ness characteristics, such as diagnosis and severity of impairment, were unre lated to employment status. Others have reported contrary findings, with diagnoses indicative of more serious mental illness associated with poorer vocational outcomes (Wilson, Berry, & Miskimins, 1969;Cook, Roussel, & Skiba, 1987). The probability of becom ing vocationally rehabilitated has also been related to severity of disability (Marshak, Bostick, & Turton, 1990).…”

Tying it all together--The PASS to success: A comprehensive look at promoting job retention for workers with psychiatric disabilities in a supported employment program.

“…articles Placement (Becker et al, 1996;Shafer & Huang, 1995;Resnick & Bond, 2001;Bond & Friedmeyer, 1987;Bond & Dietzen, 1993;Menchetti & Flynn, 1990;Gervey & Kowal, 1994;Anthony & Jansen, 1984;Fabian, Waterworth & Ripke, 1993) Attitude (Anthony & Jansen, 1984;Dorio et al, 2002) Job Retention Support (Cook & Rosenberg, 1994) Skills (Anthony & Jansen, 1984;Wilson et al, 1969;Bond & Friedmeyer, 1987) Tying it All Together: The PASS to Success As professionals in the area of vocational rehabilitation we can assume nothing about individuals. However, based on the research and experience in this field we can now put together the key components that will help promote success in job placement and job retention.…”