Jul 17, 2019 | Journal Article
People with intellectual disability, as a category, are an especially disadvantage group, as they often are in need of interventions from the society throughout the whole life. In Brazil, work is considered a human right and important for the construction of the...
Jul 17, 2019 | Journal Article
This article offers one theoretical perspective of peer support and attempts to define the elements that, when reinforced through education and training, provide a new cultural context for healing and recovery. Persons labeled with psychiatric disability have become...
Jul 16, 2019 | Journal Article
Lack of participation in the open labour market is highly prevalent for people with a mental illness across countries, and the proportion of people who get some kind of sickness benefit because of mental illness is steadily growing in Europe. Vocational rehabilitation...
Jul 16, 2019 | Policy Framework
With the release of Making It Happen, the government set the direction for a three-year plan to reform Ontario’s mental health system. A key component of a reformed mental health system is the provision of and implementation of an employment supports strategy that is...
Jul 16, 2019 | Literature Review
Background: Although mutual support and self-help groups based on shared experience play a large part in recovery, the employment of peer support workers (PSWs) in mental health services is a recent development. However, peer support has been implemented outside the...
