帮助失业的美国人在COVID后重返工作岗位

The pandemic has left millions of Americans out of work and dealt a stunning blow to their mental health. 事实上, 美国人报告焦虑, 抑郁症, 物质使用, and suicidal ideation jumped from 26% before 新型冠状病毒肺炎 to 43% in September 2020, 根据全国调查. 帮助失业者重新获得满意的工作, 罗伯特·德雷克, 劳埃德Sederer, 黛博拉·贝克尔, 和加里·邦德提供了一个强有力的解决方案, 在最近发表的一篇文章中描述, 新型冠状病毒肺炎, 失业, and 行为健康 Conditions: The Need for Supported Employment.

我们联系了布朗博士. 了解更多. He is a 趣赢平台 Senior 研究 Associate for Social Policy and Economics 研究, former Professor of Psychiatry at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, and an expert in evidence-based psychiatric rehabilitation services and the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model of supported employment. 以下是对李博士的简短采访. Bond谈到IPS模式如何帮助该国向前发展.

问:新型冠状病毒肺炎如何影响美国人的行为健康?

A: Millions of Americans have lost their jobs and 金融安全. 恐惧、不确定、压力和悲伤正在影响他们的生活. 有行为健康障碍的美国人, 比如双相情感障碍, 精神分裂症, 严重的抑郁症, have had these issues compounded by the pandemic and its effect on their lives and livelihoods. For others, the pandemic has precipitated new mental health disorders.

Q: What solutions do you see that might help these individuals recover?

A: Our 趣赢平台 research team recommends offering IPS supported employment services to people with behavioral health conditions who have lost their jobs because of the pandemic. Twenty-eight randomized controlled trials —including studies we have conducted—have demonstrated that IPS programs for people with serious mental illness enable about 2/3 of participants to gain employment, and about half become steady workers in long-term follow-up studies of a decade or more. IPS is increasingly being offered to people with other conditions, with encouraging results. 因此, we believe IPS is well-suited to helping this new population of Americans recover from this extraordinary challenge in their lives.

问:什么是IPS模式?为什么会成功?

A: IPS programs consist of teams of employment specialists providing individualized aid to help people achieve their employment goals. These teams coordinate employment services with mental health treatment teams. IPS是一种帮助人们找到满足感的快速求职方法, 竞争激烈的工作——导致他们独立, 金融安全, 社会联系, 积极自尊.

The IPS model was developed 30 years ago by my 趣赢平台 colleagues, 罗伯特·德雷克, Ph.D., M.D., Vice President for Social Policy and Economics 研究 and 黛博拉·贝克尔, M.Ed.， IPS学习社区主任. 今天，美国有1000个IPS项目.S., serving 50,000 people with serious mental health conditions every year.

Q: What studies has 趣赢平台 conducted that demonstrate that the IPS program is beneficial?

A: We conducted the Mental Health Treatment Study (MHTS) for the Social Security Administration (SSA), finding that IPS services helped disability beneficiaries with mental health impairments return to work, 改善他们的健康, 降低他们的医院使用率. We are now leading SSA’s Supported Employment Demonstration to learn the effects of offering the same MHTS services to people with mental impairments recently denied disability benefits.

问:韦斯特将如何针对这一新人群开展IPS研究?

A:我们可以在美国任何地方发射.S. location with an IPS program, where people are jobless due to the pandemic. 过去一年里, IPS teams have of necessity offered most services remotely—via videoconference and phone. This approach has been generally successful in helping people find and keep jobs. IPS teams would continue to offer services remotely to the new population.

问:这项研究的挑战是什么?

A:现在, we are looking for funding to conduct a pilot study as the first step to a full-scale multisite study. 那, 在某种程度上, is why my colleagues and I wrote the article—to bring attention to the urgent need to help these displaced Americans. Our solution will not only help them recover but also will help our country recover as well.