Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Employment specialist competencies were examined as predictors of employment outcomes for consumers with severe mental illness participating in supported employment. Using a cross-sectional correlational design a variety of self-report and supervisor-rated performance measures were examined for their association with three consumer employment outcomes (e.g., the percentage of consumers on an employment specialist's caseload that were competitively employed, the percentage of consumers on an employment specialist's caseload that were employed 90 consecutive days, and the rate in which consumers dropped out of employment services). Six mental health agencies with a total of 57 employment specialists and 14 supervisors from across the nation participated in the study. Competitive employment rates ranged among employment specialists from 0% to 80%. Higher supervisor-rated job performance, supervisor-rated employment specialist efficacy, percentage of work time spent in the community during the past month, and number of contacts with consumers during the past month were related to improved consumer employment outcomes. However, employment specialist attitudes, knowledge of supported employment, conscientiousness, and self-efficacy were unrelated to employment outcomes. This study is one of the first of its kind to examine employment specialist competencies as they relate to supported employment for consumers with severe mental illness. While supported employment is a great improvement over traditional vocational programs, further examination of employment specialist competencies could hold the key to unlocking employment success for many more consumers.

Thesis is focused on possibilities of secondary education of students with mental disabilities and their subsequent employment possibilities in the labor market. The theoretical part of the thesis is discussing basic concepts related to the issue of mental retardation and aspects of education and employment of persons with mental disabilities. The last chapter of the thesis provides an analysis of the current possibilities of secondary education of students with mental disabilities and possibilities of work placement in the Zlín region.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T13:31:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Naiara Roberta Vicente de Matos.pdf: 616830 bytes, checksum: b2525eb877dec6b9920f61fea3acfd42 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-06-14 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This research aims to analyze, based on the Social Historical Psychology, the subjective dimension of the dialectic process concern on inclusion/exclusion at work (with and without support) from people with intellectual deficiency as a way to reflect about professional education and supported work proposal. It is about to locate how the people with deficiency are situated historically, trying to understand which are the mediations and comprehend how is subjective lived the Cotes Law in the life of those people, and how this law work to orient the formation practices and job preparation that are offer to them. To do that, we will use the concepts of ethical-politic suffering, sense and meaning, social stigma, identity and preconception to analyze the living of looking for a job, and to became a worker with proper job preparation according to the conditions offers in the Cote, having as a background the social-historical condition unfavorable to inclusion to those people and the preparation project to the work that is given to them. The investigation method is based on Vygotsky s work that consider action, work and affect as in dissociable units of subjectivity, with the support of Spinoza philosophy and Marx s theory of society. The results pointed out a lag between juridical and social recognize, through the absence of social stigma, by preconception, by identity models presupposed, abandon and loneness, social conditions lived with sad felling, such as fear, humiliation, angry compromising the action potency of those people. The sense of work is ambiguous: it is only way to get self-esteem and recognition, (moreover than acquire deeds), however it is also fountain of sad passions, especially the constant fear of making a mistake, which will cost their job. It clams for work preparation and affective support, which those people encounter in their labor professor that accomplish them for a while, and to whom they send letters, expressing their feelings and needs. It is pointed out the importance of ―supported employment‖, where the professional act as a mediator to the effective of cotes law, at the development of abilities and as a affective reference / Esta pesquisa visa analisar na perspectiva da psicologia sócio-histórica a dimensão subjetiva do processo dialético de inclusão/exclusão no trabalho (com e sem apoio) das pessoas com deficiência intelectual para refletir sobre a educação profissional e a proposta de Emprego Apoiado. Trata-se de situar historicamente as pessoas com deficiência, buscando entender quais são as mediações presentes e compreendermos como é vivida subjetivamente a Lei de Cotas na vida dessas pessoas para orientar as práticas de formação e preparação ao trabalho que lhes são oferecidas. Para tanto, recorre aos conceitos de sofrimento ético-político, sentido e significado, estima social, identidade e preconceito para analisar a vivencia da busca por um trabalho, e de se tornar trabalhador nas condições de trabalho oferecidas pela Cota, tendo como pano de fundo a condição sócio-histórica desfavorável à inclusão oferecidas a esses sujeitos e os projetos de preparação para o trabalho que lhes são oferecidos. O método de investigação utilizado está embasado na concepção vygotskiana que considera ação, trabalho e afeto como unidades indissociáveis da subjetividade, amparada na filosofia de Espinosa e na teoria marxista de sociedade. Os resultados obtidos atestam a defasagem entre reconhecimento jurídico e social, pela ausência de estima social, pelo preconceito, pelos modelos de identidade pressupostas, desamparo e solidão a que são relegados, condição social vivida como sentimentos tristes de medo, humilhação, raiva comprometendo a potência de ação desses sujeitos O sentido de trabalho é ambíguo: ele é a única possibilidade de estima e reconhecimento, mais do que a possibilidade de adquirir bens, mas é também fonte de paixões tristes, especialmente o medo constante de errar e, assim perder o emprego. Clamam por preparação ao trabalho e apoio afetivo que eles encontraram no preparador laboral que os acompanhou por um tempo, ao qual enviaram cartas expressando seus sentimentos e necessidades. Ressalta-se a importância do ―Emprego Apoiado‖, onde o profissional desempenha o papel de mediador do cumprimento efetivo da lei de cotas, no plano de desenvolvimento de habilidades e da referência afetiva

Els objectius generals que emmarquen aquest estudi donen a conèixer en profunditat el procés d'adaptació a l'empresa des de tres enfocaments diferents els quals afecten als principals protagonistes: al treballador amb necessitats de suport (amb discapacitat significatives), al preparador laboral i al company de treball/supervisor. / The general objectives that frame this investigation allow to know in depth the process of adaptation to the company from three different perspectives whose axes impact in the main characters of the study, that is: the workers with support necessities (with significant disabilities), the job coaches and the co-workers/management partners.

Employing people with physical and multiple disability from the employer{\crq}s point of view I chose the subject of this thesis because I work for o.s. Asistence as a work counselor within the framework of a transit program and one of my duties is to help people with physical and multiple disability find a job as well as establish contact with employers. People with health disability are among social groups most threatened by unemployment. They make up about 13% of the level of unemployment which is increasing. There are surely many reasons for such a high level of unemployment among people with health and multiple disability. Among them we may rank insufficient coverage of services supporting this social group in the process of seeking work, next a low number of vacancies and finally the lack of experience of employers with employing people with a health disability. A number of people with physical and multiple disability would very much like to be employed in the regular labour market. There are also employers who would very much like to employ such a person, but they do not know how to find a new employ or who to contact as well as how does the whole process of employing disabled people work. One of the services dedicated to this social problem that seems quite promising is the supported employment. The aims of this thesis were various. Partly to describe the process of employing people with physical and multiple disabilities from the employer{\crq}s viewpoint. Then to describe in what way employers need to be supported when employing people with physical and multiple disabilities. The final aim was to describe the motivation of current employers to employ people with a health disability. The first part of this work deals with the characteristics of people with physical and multiple disability, with their rights, the relation of the society regarding the employment of these people and legal aspects applied to employing people with health disability. I also described the services that are provided to employers employing people with physical and multiple disabilities by agencies of supported employment. I also mentioned Corporate Social Responsibility and its usage in the social area. The research itself was carried out in collaboration with o.s. Asistence. The group on which the research was carried out was made up by five employers employing people with physical and multiple disability and by five counselors from o.s. Asistence. The data were collected by means of a semi-structured interview. The interview itself focused on the motivation of the employers to employ people with health disability and the legislation pertinent to the discussed problem. The interview with the counselors regarded similar topics with regard as to how do they participate in the process themselves. This work may be a source of information for current or potential employers of people with physical or multiple disability. At the same time it may be of use to people providing services to this social group by helping them in finding a job.

I have been working for more than three years in o. s. Asistence as a lecturer of group advisory meetings called Job Clubs. The objective of the presented thesis is to evaluate the importance and the key benefits of the group meetings for the clients. The thesis covers the theme of group advisory for certain job seekers with disability. The theoretical part describes the target group of individuals with physical or combined disabilities, the attitude of the society towards employment of people with disabilities, the importance of work for an individual, the issue of supported employment, group social work as well as Job Clubs. The research part of the thesis describes the qualitative research aimed at identifying and describing the benefits of Job Clubs for individuals with physical and combined disabilities in improving their employability. The research was carried out in o. s. Asistence from December 2007 to April 2008 using the structured interview methodology. Two groups of respondents were interviewed. The first one included 18 Job Club participants, the second one comprised of 6 Job Club lecturers. Information gathered in the research will be used by o. s. Asistence to improve the service. The research results underscore the importance and benefits of the group advisory for individuals with various disabilities. The thesis may also serve as a manual for future Job Club lecturers and to point out the importance of employing people with disability in the open labour market.

The diploma thesis named "The Role Of The State And Nonprofit Organizations In The Solution To The Disabled People Unemployment" is devoted to the ways of solving this negative phenomenon. Those instruments of the employment policy, which are mostly used against the disabled people unemployment are presented here. The use of these state instruments of treatment is sufficient but there are still many issues remaining in the field of unemployment. Especially, the Assisted Employment Service aimed to the employment of disabled people meets very often with the lack of financial support for its operations. This absence of necessary funds is the result of an insufficient legislation in this field. One of the possible effective solutions is the social policy concept which being a new instrument of the public policy plays a challenging role for the whole contemporara society.

(in English) The work is focused on the possibilities of people with disabilities in the labor market. What kind of services there are, what are the possibilities of finding work both on open labour market and in the sheltered environment. The work also describes what is in the Czech Republic legislation regarding the employment of people with disabilities. The work includes mapping of services, what is offers to to people with disabilities by state employment policy - its pros and cons, accessibility and clarity of the services provided by NGOs, mainly by supported employment as an alternative to the protected labor market. The work also deals with a proposal for the creation and of the workplace, which should be co-financed by the labor office and its active employment policy funds. Workplace should be managed by NGO Rytmus - od klienta k občanovi. The aim is to analyze and capture the particular aspects of the financing and viability of project, which would be within the organization completely new. I tis not an attempt to create a comprehensive business plan, which would mapped all the aspects, but rather to create a material that will be in the organization and serve as guide or inspiration. Key words: active employment policy, persons with disabilities, supported employment, strategic...

Bien que le travail soit bénéfique et souhaité par une majorité de personnes aux prises avec un trouble mental grave (TMG), les études réalisées auprès de cette clientèle montrent des taux d’emploi d’environ 10 à 20%. Parmi les services visant le retour au travail, les programmes de soutien à l’emploi (PSE) se sont montrés les plus efficaces avec des taux de placement en emploi standard oscillant entre 50 et 60%, sans toutefois garantir le maintien en emploi. Plusieurs études ont tenté de cerner les déterminants de l’obtention et du maintien en emploi chez cette population sans toutefois s’intéresser à la personnalité, et ce, bien qu’elle soit reconnue depuis toujours comme un déterminant important du fonctionnement des individus. De plus, peu de questionnaires d’évaluation de la personnalité selon le modèle de la personnalité en cinq facteurs (FFM) ont été utilisés auprès d’une clientèle avec un TMG et ceux-ci ont montré des propriétés psychométriques ne respectant pas des normes reconnues et acceptées. Cette thèse porte sur les liens entre la personnalité et l’intégration au travail chez les personnes avec un TMG. La première partie vise la validation d’un outil de mesure de la personnalité selon le FFM afin de répondre aux objectifs de la deuxième partie de la thèse. À cet effet, deux échantillons ont été recrutés, soit 259 étudiants universitaires et 141 personnes avec un TMG. Des analyses factorielles confirmatoires ont mené au développement d’un nouveau questionnaire à 15 items (NEO-15) dont les indices d’ajustement, de cohérence interne et de validité convergente respectent les normes établies, ce qui en fait un questionnaire bien adapté à la mesure de la personnalité normale dans des contextes où le temps d’évaluation est limité. La deuxième partie présente les résultats d’une étude réalisée auprès de 82 personnes aux prises avec un TMG inscrites dans un PSE et visant à identifier les facteurs d’obtention et de maintien en emploi chez cette clientèle, particulièrement en ce qui concerne la contribution des éléments normaux et pathologiques de la personnalité. Les résultats de régressions logistiques et de régressions de Cox (analyses de survie) ont démontré que l’historique d’emploi, les symptômes négatifs et le niveau de pathologie de la personnalité étaient prédictifs de l’obtention d’un emploi standard et du délai avant l’obtention d’un tel emploi. Une autre série de régressions de Cox a pour sa part démontré que l’esprit consciencieux était le seul prédicteur significatif du maintien en emploi. Malgré certaines limites, particulièrement des tailles d’échantillons restreintes, ces résultats démontrent la pertinence et l’importance de tenir compte des éléments normaux et pathologiques de la personnalité dans le cadre d’études portant sur l’intégration au travail de personnes avec un TMG. De plus, cette thèse a permis de démontrer l’adéquation d’un nouvel instrument de mesure de la personnalité auprès de cette clientèle. Des avenues futures concernant la réintégration professionnelle et le traitement des personnes avec un TMG sont discutées à la lumière de ces résultats. / Although work is a central component of the recovery of individuals with a severe mental illness (SMI), studies have shown employment rates ranging from 10 to 20% among that population. Among different services aimed at integrating people with a SMI to the labour market, supported employment programs (SEP) are the most effective with 50 to 60% of their participants getting a competitive employment, without however offering job tenure. Several studies have investigated which factors impact job acquisition and tenure among that population but personality has never been considered, although it has been recognized as an important determinant of functioning. Furthermore, few questionnaires aiming at evaluating personality according to the Five-Factor Model of personality (FFM) have been used with a SMI population and those questionnaires have demonstrated psychometric properties that do not satisfy commonly accepted and recognized criteria. This thesis focuses on the link between personality and work integration of people with a SMI. The first part aims at validating a personality questionnaire according to the FFM in order to achieve the objectives of the second part of the thesis. For this purpose, two samples were recruited: one of 259 university students and one of 141 people with a SMI. Confirmatory factor analyses led to the development of a new 15-item questionnaire (NEO-15) presenting with strong fit indices, internal consistency and convergent validity, which makes it well suited to measure normal personality in time-limited settings. The second part of this thesis presents the results of a study conducted with 82 people with a SMI enrolled in a SEP and aiming at investigating which variables predict job acquisition and tenure, with a special focus on normal and pathological personality variables. Results from logistic regressions and Cox regressions (survival analyses) demonstrated that prior employment, negative symptoms and level of pathological personality were predictive of competitive employment acquisition and delay to such acquisition. Additional series of Cox regressions showed that tenure of a competitive job was only predicted by conscientiousness. Although presenting some limits, restricted sample sizes in particular, our results demonstrate the relevance and the importance of considering normal and pathological personality in studies on work outcomes of people with a SMI. Furthermore, this thesis revealed the suitability of a new personality questionnaire to the SMI population. Future directions regarding the work integration and treatment of people with SMI considering these results are discussed.

L'activitat professional és fonamental en la vida de qualsevol persona i en el cas de les persones amb discapacitat resulta molt potent per tal que assumeixin la identitat adulta. Per això, en la tesi es realitza una aproximació al binomi discapacitat i treball i a les mesures que justifiquen l'actual situació de la inserció laboral de les persones amb discapacitat al mercat laboral protegit i al mercat laboral ordinari. L'objectiu general de la tesi és conèixer en profunditat una experiència d'inserció laboral de persones amb discapacitat psíquica a l'Administració de la Generalitat de Catalunya. La investigació realitzada s'ha estructurat en dues fases. En la primera fase s'ha fet una anàlisi descriptiva del col·lectiu estudiat i en la segona fase, emmarcada en una perspectiva metodològica qualitativa, s'ha desenvolupat un estudi de casos per tal de mostrar el testimoni dels protagonistes, partir del seu relat i recollir les seves valoracions. / The professional activity is basic in the life of any person and in the case of the disabled people it is highly powerful so that they assume the adult identity. So, in the thesis, an approach is made to know more about the situation between disabled people and work and to study what kind of measures explain the current labour insertion of disabled people either in shelter places or in the ordinary labour market. The general goal of the thesis is an in-depth investigation about a labour insertion experience of mental disability people in the Catalonia's Administration. The investigation has been structured in two phases. First of all it has made a descriptive analysis of searched group. Then it has been developed a case study framed in a qualitative methodological perspective to show the witness of the protagonists, starting off from their stories and to pick up their valuations.