Job coaching for persons with mental disabilities

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Yuusuke Murakami,

Affiliations: Yokohama City Comprehensive Care Continuum, Yokohama, Japan

Note: [] Yokohama City Comprehensive Care Continuum 1735 Toriyama-cho, Kouhoku-ku, Yokohama Kanagawa 222-0035, Japan. Tel.: +81 45 475 0001; Fax: +81 45 475 0002; E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract: The effectiveness of job coaching for persons with mental challenges at the Yokohama City Comprehensive Care Continuum is examined through case records. The immediate intervention with the client, as well as improved working conditions through consultation with the company are recognized as crucial for the client's optimum adjustment at the work site. On the other hand, in a case where the client quit the job, we can see that the inadequacy is in the assessment of the client and of the working conditions. Improved assessments are needed. Using the principle and the strategies of supported employment developed in America, the goal of job coaching at Y.C.C.C. is to form an adequate support system for the client, both at the workplace and in other living and social situation which influence the client in the workplace.

Journal: Work, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 181-188, 1999