Correlations Between Psychiatric Disabilities and Vocational Outcome
Harvey E. Jacobs Ph.D.1,
Donald Wissusik M.A.2,
Rosemary Collier M.S.3,
Debra Stackman B.A.3, and
Derek Burkeman B.A.3
1 Drucker Brain Injury Center, Moss Rehabilitation Hospital, 1200 West Tabor Road, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19141
2 Springbrook Institute in Newburg, Oregon
3 Neuropsychiatric Institute of the University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Center in Los Angeles; Brentwood Division of the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center in West Los Angeles
Eighty-nine subjects were recruited from inpatient and community psychiatric treatment programs in the Los Angeles area to participate in the Brentwood Job Finding Club. They were trained in job-seeking skills and were given logistical support during their job search. Thirty-six percent either obtained a job or entered a job training program. Persons with good work histories, good job interviewing skills, and monpsychotic diagnoses were more likely to find employment. Persons with psychotic diagnoses and poor work histories and those receiving Supplemental Security Income were the least successful.
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This project was supported in part by grant 10-P-98193-9-05 from the U.S. Social Security Administration and the UCLA Clinical Research Center for the Study of Schizophrenia (National Institute of Mental Health). Robert P. Liberman, M.D., Alan Simpson, Ph.D., Magdalene Fitzpatrick, A.A., Loyce McGhee, B.A., Claudia Dorrington, M.A., Linda Lee, B.A., Jim Mintz, Ph.D., and Thomas V. Rush, Ph.D., provided assistance.
