Beyond Schizophrenia - Living and Working With a Serious Mental Illness

Despite major advances in medication and treatment, persons with serious mental illness have substantially worse employment outcomes than other disadvantaged groups. This book explains the factors that impact the employment of those with mental illnesses and provides guidance for overcoming obstacles, from both employer and employee perspectives.

List of contents

Part I. Living with Schizophrenia
1: Everything Bad is Good Again
2: That Could Be My Son
3: Hell No!
4: We Can't Do Anything
5: What Am I Doing Here?
Part II. Working with Schizophrenia
6: Happy Un-Birthday
7: Don't Ask, Don't Tell
8: Saved My Life
9: A Long Way from Paris
10: Always More Miracles
11: it
12: Epilogue

About the author

By Marjorie L. Baldwin

Summary

Despite major advances in medication and treatment, persons with serious mental illness have substantially worse employment outcomes than other disadvantaged groups. This book explains the factors that impact the employment of those with mental illnesses and provides guidance for overcoming obstacles, from both employer and employee perspectives.

Product details

• Authors: Marjorie Baldwin, Marjorie L Baldwin, Marjorie L. Baldwin, Baldwin Marjorie L.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.03.2016
• EAN: 9781442248335
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-4833-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Care of the mentally ill, Disability: social aspects, Care of people with mental health issues