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Employability of the Mentally Disabled in the 1970s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Roger Morgan  and
A. K. Gopalaswamy
Roger Morgan
Affiliation:
St Wulstan's Hospital, Malvern, Worcestershire
A. K. Gopalaswamy
Affiliation:
St Wulstan's Hospital, Malvern, Worcestershire
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Summary

Of 156 discharged patients, the forty who succeeded in open employment had shown before they left hospital a combination of significantly less clinical disability, less abnormal behaviour, better work performance and better relationships with other people. We specify the approximate levels of these variables that were required to get and hold a job in the 1970s.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 142 , Issue 6 , June 1983 , pp. 572 - 574
Copyright
Copyright © 1983 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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