Towards Employment: What Research Says About Support-to-Work in Relation to Psychiatric and Intellectual Disabilities

ABSTRACT

This article presents an overview of research about support-to-work in relation to psychiatric and intellectual disabilities. The overview shows that support-to-work services are multifaceted, and that work can be seen as a tool for individual rehabilitation or as a set of goals to achieve. Providers are presented with specific components, which are characterized by systematic, targeted, and individualized interventions. The overview illustrates a need for long-term engagement and cooperation of and between welfare services and agents within the labor market to dissolve the Gordian knot that the transition from welfare interventions to employment seems to be.

KEYWORDS:

• Employment
• intellectual disabilities
• methods of social work
• psychiatric disabilities
• rehabilitation
• support-to-work
• supported employment
• vocational rehabilitation