Intervening Negative Impact of Stigma on Employability of a Person with Schizophrenia Through Social Case Work

Abstract

Schizophrenia impose a heavy toll on a person’s capacity to work, there are serious barriers to employment that mental health service users have to overcome some of them within mental health service themselves, stigma and discrimination from employers and the general public, having basis as their implicit assumption regarding employability of people with mental health problems. This is an outcome study based on single case design methodology which assessed the efficacy of social case work (intervention). It provides evidence that a person with schizophrenia can achieve and maintain successful employment with adequate social case work intervention despite the challenges like stigma imposed by this serious mental illness.