If Work Makes People with Mental Illness Sick, What Do Unemployment, Poverty, and Social Isolation Cause?

Abstract

[Excerpt] The importance of high expectations has been well established as a tool in successful goal achievement and life advancement. The challenge for helpers is ensuring that this pressure of high expectation is initially borne more by rehabilitation staff members who are charged with assisting people with a psychiatric disability to realize success and not merely transferred through as an added burden to the clients they serve.