Academic literature on the topic 'Sheltered workshops. Rehabilitation'

The present study compares the burnout levels of vocational instructors working in vocational rehabilitation centers and sheltered workshops in Israel. Sixty-six vocational instructors filled out the Kafry and Pines Burnout Measure, the Kumin Attitudes Measure, and a brief demographic and jobs data questionnaire. The result showed that vocational instructors working in sheltered workshops had higher burnout levels and lower job satisfaction as compared with instructors working in vocational rehabilitation centers. These findings were interpreted based on job framework variables that differed between the systems.

Looking at the history of segregation in education and the workplace for blind and handicapped persons, together with the relationship of segregation to social attitudes and to opportunity, the author poses the question of the relevance of sheltered workshops today. The El Paso Lighthouse “enclave with industry” program is presented as one model for moving toward a “natural proportion” environment.

To describe the core elements of modern psychiatric rehabilitation. Based on selected examples we describe the discussion about values in mental health care with focus on Europe. We present outcome data from studies, which have tried to implement care structures based on this value discussion. In the second half of the 20th century, mental health care in all European and other high-income countries changed conceptually and structurally. Deinstitutionalisation reduced the number of psychiatric beds and transferred priority to outpatient care and community-based services, but community mental health programs developed differently across and within these countries. High-income countries in Europe continued to invest in costly traditional services that were neither evidence-based nor person-centered by emphasising inpatient services, sheltered group homes and sheltered workshops. We argue that evidence-based, person-centred, recovery-oriented psychiatric rehabilitation offers a parsimonious solution to developing a consensus plan for community-based care in Europe. The challenges to scaling up effective psychiatric rehabilitation services in high-income countries are not primarily a lack of resources, but rather a lack of political will and inefficient use and dysfunctional allocation of resources.

This study examined the percentage of 21,257 supported employees served by 74 state-federal vocational rehabilitation agencies in 2013 who would have earned more wages in sheltered workshops than in the community. It found that the overwhelming majority of supported employees earned more in their communities at all wage comparison points; however, substantial differences in wages were identified according to the participant’s disability type, occupation, vocational rehabilitation agency, and the region in which they lived.

SummaryThe foundation of a rehabilitation center for schizophrenics annexed to the Psychiatric University Clinic of Vienna in 1963 initiated a systematic readaptation strategy for these patients all over Austria. The main task of these rehabilitation units is to evaluate the working and social capacities after acute illness episodes, to motivate the patient to accept professional activities and living conditions adapted to their health state through reinforcement of special competences, to replace inadequate attribution and coping styles by appropriate behavior patterns and to enhance compliance for necessary drug treatment. During the rehabilitation period the families are systematically prepared to live with the patients. In accordance with the obtained level of rehabilitation the patients are then either reintegrated into their family and/or normal professional conditions or placed in special settings (homes, sheltered workshops). A long-term followup is assured.

No contexto da Reforma Psiquiátrica, diversas modalidades de intervenções terapêuticas se apresentam como importantes ferramentas, que contribuem para a reabilitação psicossocial de pessoas com diagnósticos de transtornos mentais. Associadas aos psicofármacos, na forma de oficinas terapêuticas, auxiliam de forma eficaz na manutenção do controle do sintoma psiquiátrico, possibilitando a reabilitação. Entre essas modalidades, está a Capoeira Angola. Esta investigação teve o objetivo de verificar a contribuição da Capoeira Angola na reabilitação psicossocial de pessoas com diagnósticos de transtornos mentais e de avaliar uma proposta de intervenção grupal breve, aqui chamada CapoTerapia, com a utilização deste tipo de Capoeira, no contexto da Reforma Psiquiátrica. Com base no referencial da reabilitação psicossocial, foi desenvolvida em uma associação de apoio às pessoas com diagnósticos de transtornos mentais. Para isso, sete usuários desta associação, todos com diagnóstico de esquizofrenia, participaram de uma oficina, que utilizou a Capoeira Angola como forma de intervenção terapêutica grupal breve. A oficina, CapoTerapia, oferecida em oito encontros temáticos, foi observada pelo pesquisador e dados desta observação foram registrados em um diário de campo. Ao final de cada encontro, foi realizada uma roda de conversa com os participantes, relativa ao tema trabalhado. Esta conversa foi gravada, transcrita na íntegra e sintetizada. No final das oito oficinas de CapoTerapia, foi feita uma entrevista individual com cada um dos participantes, também gravada, transcrita na íntegra e sintetizada. Os dados, obtidos através das observações, das conversas e das entrevistas, foram agrupados em categorias temáticas, que expressavam o significado do conteúdo manifesto e analisados à luz da análise qualitativa descritiva. Os resultados mostraram que a Capoeira Angola possibilitou aos participantes vivenciarem equilíbrio relativo aos seus estados emocionais, principalmente a integração entre corpo e mente. Através dos movimentos utilizados, levou os participantes a se exercitarem fisicamente, estimulando o cuidado à saúde física. Promoveu a autoestima e a autoconfiança. Motivou o estreitamento das relacões sociais, combatendo a solidão, própria dos transtornos mentais e abriu espaços para a socialização. O uso dos instrumentos da Capoeira Angola e também da musicalidade, criou oportunidades para o desenvolvimento da criatividade, facilitou a expressão de seus sentimentos e ofereceu alternativas para o controle da agressividade. Assim sendo, pode-se considerar que a Capoeira Angola, na forma de oficina CapoTerapia, mostrou-se como uma importante ferramenta a ser utilizada na assistência à saúde mental, na busca da reabilitação psicossocial de pessoas com diagnósticos de transtornos mentais, pois a sua prática facilitou a inclusão dos participantes em uma atividade cultural, desportiva e terapêutica, contribuindo também para a prevenção de reincidência desses transtornos
In the context of the Psychiatric Reform, various types of therapeutic interventions are presented as important tools in order to contribute to psychosocial rehabilitation of people with mental disorders diagnostics. Associated with psychotropic drugs in the form of Therapeutic Workshops contribute effectively in maintaining control of psychiatric symptoms, enabling such rehabilitation, and between these modes is the Capoeira Angola. This research aimed to verify the contribution of Capoeira Angola in psychosocial rehabilitation of people with mental disorders diagnoses and evaluate a proposal for a brief group intervention with the use of this type of Capoeira, here called CapoTerapia in the context of psychiatric reform. Based on the framework of psychosocial rehabilitation, it was developed in an association to support people with mental disorders diagnostics. For this, seven members of this association, all diagnosed with schizophrenia, attended a workshop used the Capoeira Angola as a form of group therapy intervention soon. The workshop, CapoTerapia, offered in eight thematic meetings, was observed by the researcher and data this observation were recorded in a diary. At the end of each meeting a conversation wheel was held with participants concerning the theme worked. This conversation was recorded, transcribed verbatim and synthesized. At the end of the eight workshops, CapoTerapia, was made a separate interview with the participants, also recorded, transcribed verbatim and synthesized. The data obtained through observations, conversations and interviews were grouped into thematic categories that expressed the meaning of the manifest content and analyzed the light of descriptive qualitative analysis. The results showed that Capoeira Angola enabled the participants to experience the relative balance their emotional states, especially the integration between body and mind. Through the use movements, led participants to physically exercise, stimulating care to physical health. Promoted self-esteem and self- confidence. Motivated the development of close social relationships, combating loneliness, own of mental disorders and opened spaces for socializing. The use of own instruments of Capoeira Angola and also the musicality, created opportunities for the development of creativity, facilitated the expression of their feelings and offered alternatives to control aggression. Therefore, it can be considered that Capoeira Angola, in the form of workshop, CapoTerapia, proved to be an important tool to be used in mental health care in the pursuit of psychosocial rehabilitation of people with mental disorders diagnoses therefore its practice, facilitated the inclusion of participants in a cultural activity, sports and therapy, contributing also to prevent recurrence of these disorders

As workers with a wide array of both acquired and congenital disabilities lost access to the paid labor market, legislators and reformers began to search for a way to return people with disabilities to productivity and self-support. Influenced by the Protestant work ethic and the long-standing association of dependency with poor citizenship, rehabilitators tended to focus more on restoring their clients’ putatively damaged morality than on determining how to integrate disabled people into the wage labor market. Nevertheless, vocational rehabilitation programs did offer some disabled people and their families modest incomes during times of considerable stress. Chapter 6 traces the emergence of Goodwill Industries and the ways in which its sheltered workshops replicated mainstream employers’ use of piecework and concerns with efficiency—dynamics that led managers to exclude many disabled workers as too inefficient. Due to the complexity of disability and the ways that it intersected with age, gender, and family status, few clients moved into the outside labor force.