Workplace rehabilitation centers for people with mental illness in Madrid: A resource for employment in crisis times (2008-2012)

Autor: Segundo Valmorisco Pizarro
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: methaodos.revista de ciencias sociales, Vol 3, Iss 1 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2340-8413
DOI: 10.17502/m.rcs.v3i1.64
Popis: The current article tries to detect the variables that explain labour insertion rates (close to 50%) of people with severe and enduring mental illness who come to work rehabilitation centres (CRL´s) in the Community of Madrid. To this end, firstly, has been used a documentary methodology through the use of activity memoirs of the CRL´s in the Community of Madrid with activity in 2008-2012. And, second, a qualitative methodology using In-depth interviews with professionals of different profiles of various CRL´s as well as the technical coordinator of the public network of social care and people with severe and enduring mental illness of the Community of Madrid; and Focus groups according to professional category, as well as people served and family. The results show that the public network of care for people with severe and enduring mental illness, offers more than 5,900 seats in different collective resources (psychosocial rehabilitation centres, day centres, social support, vocational rehabilitation centres, nursing homes or supervised apartments). Specifically, CRL´s serving a total of 1,313 people, of which 47.4% find employment (622 people with severe and enduring mental illness).
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