Supported employment helps people with severe mental illness to obtain work

Most people with severe mental illness want to work, and there are compelling ethical, social, and clinical reasons for helping them do so. Prevocational training and supported employment are two different approaches to achieving this goal. Prevocational training requires a period of preparation before entering competitive employment, whereas supported employment places people in competitive employment without preparation but offer job support. Crowther et al (p 204) performed a systematic review of 11 randomised controlled trials and found that clients who received supported employment were more likely to be in competitive employment than those who received prevocational training (34% compared with 12% at 12 months).

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Helping people with severe mental illness to obtain work: systematic review

Ruth E Crowther, Max Marshall, Gary R Bond, and Peter Huxley
BMJ 2001 322: 204-208. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]