Centre for Mental Health

IPS Resources

Below are resources on IPS and suggestions for further reading on the subject.

Overview of IPS and Centres of Excellence

Below you can listen to Bob Grove's overview of IPS and why we are setting up the Centres of Excellence (4:42 mins).

What an Employment Specialist does

Kay Robertson, from Central and North West London NHS Trust's User Employment Programme, talks about what it means to be an Employment Specialist. She covers how she works within the Trust, how clients come to her and how she builds the necessary relationships needed to help clients with mental health problems to get back into work.

IPS stories

Working Well: about Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust's approach to IPS. Sussex is part of our Centres of Excellence programme.

Personal stories by people who use Workways. Based in Exeter in Devon, Workways provides information, advice and guidance for people for whom stress, anxiety, depression or another mental health condition affects their ability to find or remain in employment. Workways is a service of Devon Partnership NHS Trust and is also part of our Centres of Excellence programme.

 

Watch Professor Bob Drake

Professor Robert Drake is Professor of Psychiatry and of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, New Hampshire, USA. He gave our lecture in March 2008 about the future of supported employment.

We have clips, the transcript and Bob's slides from the lecture below.

The background to supported employment

What we know about supported employment

The benefits of a job for clients

Rachel Perkins' response

Download the Lecture transcript (371 KB)

Download presentation slides (156 KB)

Download the Response transcript (106 KB)

The Supported Employment Fidelity Scale is available from the Dartmouth Medical School website.

Other resources

Dr Miles Rinaldi - Vocational Services Manager at South London and St George's Trust talks to Dr Persaud about a joint paper published with Dr Rachel Perkins, Director of Quality Assurance and User and Carer Experience on implementing evidence-based supported employment.

You can listen to the podcast on the Royal College of Psychiatrists' site.

Further reading

Papers

Integrated support to overcome severe employment barriers - Adapting the IPS approach published by the Brotherhood of St Laurence and University of Melbourne Centre for Public Policy (2009)

Journal articles

Bond, G.R., Becker, D.R., Drake, R.E. et al. (1997) A fidelity scale for the individual placement and support model of supported employment. Rehabilitation Counselling Bulletin, 40, 265-284.

Bond, G.R., Drake, R.E. & Becker, D.R. (2008) An update on randomized controlled trials of evidence-based supported employment. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 31, 280-289.

Burns, T., Catty, J., Becker, T. et al. (2007) The effectiveness of supported employment for people with severe mental illness: A randomized controlled trial. The Lancet, 370, 1146-1152.

Rinaldi, M., Perkins, R., Glynn, E., Montibeller, T., Clenaghan, M. & Rutherford, J. (2008) Individual Placement and Support: From research to practice. Advances in Psychiatric Treatment, 13, 50-60.

Books

Becker, D.R. & Drake, R.E. (2003) A Working Life for People with Severe Mental Illness. New York: Oxford University Press.

Grove, B., Secker, J. & Seebohm, P. (eds) New Thinking about Mental Health and Employment. Oxford: Radcliffe Press.

Supporting drug and alcohol service users back into work

This paper from 2005 reviews the research evidence for the development of vocational services for people who misuse drugs and alcohol. The review finds that:

1. Simply treating substance misusers (i.e. enabling them to achieve abstinence) is not sufficient to enable them to get a job. Specialist vocational services are required as part of treatment.
2. Sheltered work involving specialist placements on below market wages does not lead to people getting real jobs.
3. Equally, job preparation alone seems only to have any impact for people who have a strong external motivation to get a job.
4. There are two more promising interventions: a stepped care model and the comprehensive employment supports model (based on IPS), which are outlined in the paper.

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