Mainstreaming effective employment support for individuals with health conditions: an analytical framework for the effective design of modified individual placement and support (IPS) models

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Abstract

Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is a highly effective model of employment support for individuals with severe mental health conditions. Its potential modification for new settings and larger cohorts is of keen interest across advanced economies given shared health-related (un)employment challenges. Despite mushrooming policy interest and activity around modified IPS a significant barrier and risk at present is the absence of a well-considered analytical framework to enable structured critical reflection about the effective translation of IPS principles and fidelity into modified IPS services. This article fills this void through the presentation for the first time in the literature of such an analytical framework, unpacking as it does so a set of key original analytical distinctions that are unhelpfully homogenised in current literature and policy thinking and highlighting the wider potential of IPS principles and models to the nature of good employment support for other individuals with health conditions and disabilities.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)517-533
Number of pages19
JournalSocial Policy and Society
Volume18
Issue number4
Early online date7 Nov 2018
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 7 Nov 2019

Keywords

  • individual placement and support
  • IPS
  • fidelity scale
  • disability employment gap
  • work and health

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