Employability With Mental Illness: The Perspectives of Employers and Mental Health Workers

2020 ◽  
pp. 003435522092260
Author(s):  
Andrea Lettieri ◽  
Felipe Soto-Pérez ◽  
Manuel A. Franco-Martín ◽  
Francisco de Borja Jordán de Urríes ◽  
Kate R. Shiells ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Mental Health Workers ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Attitudinal Differences ◽  
People With Mental Illness ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Initial Scale

Having prior contact with people with mental illness in the workplace can lead to an improvement in employers’ attitudes toward this group. However, there is currently a lack of instruments to measure attitudes toward the employability of people with mental illness. The overall aim of this study was to develop a Spanish scale of attitudes toward the employability of people with mental illness (CEPEM) and obtain preliminary data regarding its psychometric properties. Ninety-four items from three content domains were selected (attitudes, employability, and impact) and revised in an inter-rater agreement procedure in order to produce an initial scale. The scale was tested by employers and workers from the field of mental health. A reduced set of items was selected according to variability and homogeneity indexes. Additional analyses were conducted to explore the validity of the scale. Internal consistency was estimated for the full 33-item scale. Scale scores partially captured attitudinal differences between employers and workers. Finally, linear multiple regression analysis showed that the scale score, in combination with educational level, can help to predict employers’ intentions to hire people with mental illness. Limitations and future research directions are also addressed.

Vicarious trauma: Strategies for legal practice and law schools

2021 ◽  
pp. 1037969X2199985
Author(s):  
Kelley Burton ◽  
Amanda Paton
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Vicarious Trauma ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Mental Health Workers ◽  
Future Research ◽  
First Year ◽  
Helping Professionals ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Individual Level

We examine the effect of vicarious trauma on various stakeholders in the legal profession. Criminal lawyers are likely to experience higher levels of vicarious trauma than other lawyers. Additionally, lawyers are at a heightened risk of vicarious trauma compared to other helping professionals such as mental health workers. We identify a range of strategies that can be implemented at an organisational or individual level to address vicarious trauma. Future research should evaluate the effectiveness of vicarious trauma strategies and initiatives. Importantly, we argue that vicarious trauma initiatives should begin in first-year law courses and continue over a career.

scholarly journals Mental Illness, Social Suffering and Structural Antagonism in the Labour Process

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 948-965
Author(s):  
Megan Woods ◽  
Rob Macklin ◽  
Sarah Dawkins ◽  
Angela Martin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Social Suffering ◽  
Labour Process ◽  
Workplace Conditions ◽  
People With Mental Illness ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Control ◽  
Discursive Resources

Workplace conditions and experiences powerfully influence mental health and individuals experiencing mental illness, including the extent to which people experiencing mental ill-health are ‘disabled’ by their work environments. This article explains how examination of the social suffering experienced in workplaces by people with mental illness could enhance understanding of the inter-relationships between mental health and workplace conditions, including experiences and characteristics of the overarching labour process. It examines how workplace perceptions and narratives around mental illness act as discursive resources to influence the social realities of people with mental ill-health. It applies Labour Process Theory to highlight how such discursive resources could be used by workers and employers to influence the power, agency and control in workplace environments and the labour process, and the implications such attempts might have for social suffering. It concludes with an agenda for future research exploring these issues.

Therapists' Attitudes as Explanation of Underservice of Elderly in Mental Health: Testing an Old Hypothesis

1986 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 261-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bob Knight
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Mental Health Workers ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Major Barrier ◽  
Student Sample ◽  
College Student Sample

The literature in mental health and aging has long argued that the presumably negative attitudes of therapists toward the aged are a major barrier to the aged receiving psychotherapy services. This investigation compared two measures of attitudes in a college student sample in order to test the reliability and validity of two commonly used measures of attitude in the general population. The same scales were then used in a sample of sixty-six mental health workers. The results suggest that Likert ratings and semantic differentials, although tapping a common dimension, differ in sensitivity to personal experience with the aged, that therapists had more positive beliefs about the elderly than did college students, and that therapist attitudes were not correlated with either proportion of elderly clients seen or desire to work with elderly. Work site emerged as an important predictor of numbers of elderly seen by therapists. It is argued that future research ought to focus on systems level variables in seeking to overcome barriers to therapy.

scholarly journals Mental illness stigma research in Argentina

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 86-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Agrest ◽  
Franco Mascayano ◽  
Sara Elena Ardila-Gómez ◽  
Ariel Abeldaño ◽  
Ruth Fernandez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Mental Illness Stigma ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Community Perceptions ◽  
Community Based ◽  
People With Mental Illness ◽  
National Mental Health ◽  
Community Based Services

Studies regarding stigma towards mental illness in Argentina blossomed after the first National Mental Health Law was passed in 2010. Methodological limitations and contradictory results regarding community perceptions of stigma hinder comparisons across domestic and international contexts but some lessons may still be gleaned. We examine this research and derive recommendations for future research and actions to reduce stigma. These include tackling culture-specific aspects of stigma, increasing education of the general population, making more community-based services available and exposing mental health professionals to people with mental illness who are on community paths to recovery.

Decision Making about Dangerousness in Releasing Patients from Long-term Psychiatric Hospitalization

1992 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul D. Werner ◽  
J. Reid Meloy
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitalization ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Mental Health Workers ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Outpatient Program ◽  
Psychiatric Rating ◽  
Psychiatric Rating Scale

This study examined mental health practitioners’ approaches to judging psychiatric inpatients’ dangerousness at the time of decision making about hospital discharge. Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) descriptions of 50 inpatients were studied in relation to four assessors’ evaluations of patients’ dangerousness and their recommendations regarding conditional release to an outpatient program. Judged dangerousness was well modeled by a multiple linear regression equation (R = .91) and was found positively correlated with 13 BPRS variables. Five BPRS scales associated with the recommendation to discharge patients were also identified. On two-year followup none of the patients released to the outpatient program was found to have committed a violent act. Results were compared with prior findings on mental health workers’ decision making about violence, and recommendations for future research were discussed.

Italian Investigation on Mental Health Workers’ Attitudes Regarding Personal Recovery From Mental Illness

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 680-685 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Giusti ◽  
Donatella Ussorio ◽  
Anna Salza ◽  
Maurizio Malavolta ◽  
Annalisa Aggio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Mental Health Workers ◽  
Personal Recovery
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