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Flexible and personalised? An evaluation of a UK tailored employment support programme for jobseekers with enduring mental health problems and learning difficulties.
- Source :
- Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research; Jan2014, Vol. 16 Issue 1, p14-28, 15p
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- The employment position of people with enduring mental health issues and learning difficulties (intellectual impairment) is a major policy and moral challenge. The continued exclusion from paid work for those disabled people who are otherwise keen to work is marked in Western Europe even in high per capita welfare states. The paradox here is that disabled people have received policy and programme attention, but arguably programmes have become increasingly ‘corporeal’ and medicalized. Condition management programmes (CMPs) epitomize this approach and focus on getting the sick and disabled body/brain more work-ready ahead of wider supports. By way of contrast this article presents the results of a large-scale evaluation of a non-medicalized approach in the UK which concentrated on careful job matching, intensive support and barrier reduction. It argues that flexible personalized approaches will afford greater employment success than a focus on deficits and welfare dependency reduction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- DISCRIMINATION (Sociology)
EMPLOYEE recruitment
EMPLOYMENT
INTERVIEWING
LEARNING disabilities
MEDICAL needs assessment
HEALTH policy
MENTAL illness
PEOPLE with disabilities
CULTURAL pluralism
QUESTIONNAIRES
QUALITATIVE research
SOCIAL support
EVALUATION of human services programs
DATA analysis software
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
DISEASE complications
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15017419
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 92017404
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/15017419.2012.761157