Individual placement and support: Individual placement and support helping people with severe mental illness mental illness get real jobs multiple sclerosis

Abstract

Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is the accepted evidence-based vocational rehabilitation intervention of choice in the United States, and there is now good evidence for its effectiveness in Europe. Unemployment rates in people with severe mental illness (SMI) are historically extremely low. Traditional employment services use a train and place model, in which time is spent in secondary (sheltered) employment services before, if at all, attempting to obtain competitive employment. Individualized Placement and Support (IPS) is a method in which clients are helped to obtain competitive employment directly and then supported in these posts-a place and train model. IPS is the evidenced-based vocational rehabilitation program of choice in the United States, and there is now good evidence for it in Europe. © Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2009.