Barriers to Employment for Transition-age Youth with Developmental and Psychiatric Disabilities.
Adm Policy Ment Health
; 44(3): 354-358, 2017 May.
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ABSTRACT
Youth with developmental and psychiatric disabilities encounter significant vocational challenges, even when they receive supported employment services. We examined the barriers to employment for 280 transition-age youth with disabilities enrolled in supported employment in eight community rehabilitation centers. Employment team members identified each youth's top three barriers to employment using a 21-item checklist. Lack of work experience, transportation problems, and program engagement issues represented common barriers for both youth with developmental disabilities (53, 36, and 25%) and youth with psychiatric disabilities (20, 33, and 26%). Additional common barriers among youth with developmental disabilities included cognitive problems (32%) and lack of social skills (23%) and among youth with psychiatric disabilities included poor control of psychiatric symptoms (23%). Despite receiving evidence-based employment services, youth with disabilities encounter many barriers to employment. Awareness of typical barriers for transition-age youth, including those specific to different disability groups, may help employment programs anticipate challenges and develop strategies that avoid these barriers and their effects on employment opportunities.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Deficiências do Desenvolvimento
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Readaptação ao Emprego
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Pessoas com Deficiência
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Transtornos Mentais
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
Aspecto:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
Limite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Adm Policy Ment Health
Assunto da revista:
PSICOLOGIA
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SAUDE PUBLICA
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SERVICOS DE SAUDE
Ano de publicação:
2017
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos