Readiness for Employment: Perceptions of Mental Health Service Users

Abstract

Work is good for both physical and mental health, and access to work is a basic human right. People with mental health conditions want to work and with the right support can work but are often excluded from the workplace. We explored factors influencing individual's perceptions of their readiness for employment. Participants' narratives focused particularly on personal causation and it's inter-reactions with other aspects of volition, habituation and the environment and highlight a number of key areas, which are discussed in relation to service provision. Sheltered workshops offer support and some structure and routine but may limit an individual's readiness for employment. Services should be evidence based and focused on real work opportunities which fit with individual's interests and values. Occupational therapy theory offers a unique and valuable perspective in understanding perceptions of readiness for employment and occupational therapists offer valid and useful assessments and interventions for vocational rehabilitation.

Work experiences among attendees of day centres for people with psychiatric disabilities

“…Bryant and co-workers [17] argued that day centres might feel like a safe place for the attendees, but also as a glass house that prevents participation in the surrounding society, such as open-market employment. These latter findings were recently confirmed by another research team [18], further underscoring that the occurrence of open-market employment and associated factors in the target group should be studied.…”

Doing or Undoing Gender? An Explorative Study of Gender, Activities, and Well-being among People with Mental Illness Attending Day Centers in Sweden

“…Possibly, there was also an interaction with level of expectations on the participants. Too low demands on attendees have sometimes been found to be a problem in day centers (Prior et al 2013), and the greater engagement in activities among the women might be a reflection of intersectionality that involved gender, mental illness, and level of expectations.…”

“…However, research has also indicated that day centers may function as a safe but secluded haven, separating the attendees from the surrounding society (Pinfold 2000;Prior et al 2013), and not all people with mental illness find day centers stimulating and motivating (Erdner et al 2002). Some have mixed feelings; on one hand they appreciate the routine and often unlimited flexibility found in day centers and similar settings, but on the other hand, they realize it is not ''real'' work and think the demands are sometimes too low to be beneficial (Prior et al 2013). One of the factors that may be decisive for whether participants will find day centers stimulating and relevant as rehabilitation alternatives is their ability to meet the expectations and needs of both men and women.…”

Fault attack hardware Trojan detection method based on ring oscillator

“…In order to verify the actual detection performance of proposed detection circuit on cipher circuit, we use nonefeedback mode AES-128 as the test cipher circuit. By analyzing the existing fault attacks on AES, we have concluded that those attack mainly occurred in the last three rounds [27,28]. Based on this observation, we insert FAHT detection circuit in eighth, ninth and tenth rounds of AES.…”

“…This attack method can be used in different cipher algorithms, such as DES, AES, PRESENT and SIMON and corresponding anti-fault attack method has been proposed [4,24,25,26]. Debdeep and Michael implement a fault attack on AES-128 by inject error bits on the eighth round, and proposed the hack equations about ninth and tenth rounds injection [27,28]. Different cipher algorithm has different hack equation, but the fault injection location is generally in the last few rounds [2,3,29,30].…”