Depression and welfare reform: From barriers to inclusion

✍ Scribed by Dan A. Lewis; Bong Joo Lee; Lisa M. Altenbernd

• Book ID: 102310963
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 152 KB
• Volume: 34
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0090-4392
• DOI: 10.1002/jcop.20107

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The authors identify ways to facilitate work among current and recent welfare recipients with mental illness. Their analysis assesses the relationship between a particular mental illness, depression, and labor force involvement in a statewide sample of welfare recipients, identifies the factors that promote work for those with depression, and describes the positive and negative correlates of work among this group. This study is a building block in understanding how depression and work are related among current and recent welfare recipients and what factors impede or facilitate substantive involvement in society for those with depression. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.