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Employment Checklists - Useful References material
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Useful documents for Checklist 1 - Employers
Managing for Mental Health:
the Mind Employers' Resource Pack, Mind, 2000.
Employer's guide to manic depression and employment
the Manic Depression Fellowship, 2000
Employment Adjustments for People with Mental Health Problems
Briefings by the Employers Forum on Disability.
Understanding Depression for Managers & Employees National Depression Campaign leaflet 1999 (now Depression Alliance)
Working Partners: A Guide to the Employment of People with Mental Health Difficulties
Video and training pack. Mental Health Media, 1999.
The DDA 1995, What Employers Need to Know
Free leaflet from the DRC Help line 08457 622 633. Textphone 08457 622 644
Disability Discrimination Act 1995: Code of Practice
for the Elimination of Discrimination in the Field of Employment against Disabled Persons of Persons who have had a Disability, The Stationery Office, 1996.
Mental Health in the Workplace
Tackling the Effects of Stress, Mental Health Foundation
Stress at Work: a Guide for Employers
Health & Safety Executive, 1995.
Useful documents for Checklist 2 - Service Providers
Working it Out: Creating work opportunities for people with mental health problems
Adam Pozner, and others,
The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health 1996. From Pavilion Publishing 01273 623222
Work, Empowerment and Community
J Nearing and others, The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health 1993
Managing for Mental Health:
the Mind Employers' Resource Pack, Mind, 2000.
Employer's guide to manic depression and employment
the Manic Depression Fellowship, 2000
Employment Adjustments for People with Mental Health Problems:
Briefings by the Employers Forum on Disability.
Understanding Depression for Managers & Employees National Depression Campaign leaflet 1999 (now Depression Alliance)
Working Partners: A Guide to the Employment of People with Mental Health Difficulties.
Video and training pack,
Mental Health Media, 1999.
The DDA 1995: What Employers Need to Know
Free leaflet from the DRC Helpline 08457 622 633. Textphone 08457 622 644
Disability Discrimination Act 1995: Code of Practice
for the Elimination of Discrimination in the Field of Employment against Disabled Persons of Persons who have had a Disability, The Stationery Office, 1996.
Mental Health in the Workplace
Tackling the Effects of Stress, Mental Health Foundation
Stress at Work: a Guide for Employers
Health & Safety Executive, 1995
AfSE Newsletter:
Association for Supported Employment, monthly to members
Useful documents for Checklist 3 - People seeking work who have mental health problems
Employment Fact sheet
Mind, 2000.
What Colour is Your Parachute?
A book designed to help you assess your strengths and weaknesses and decide what area of work you are suited to. Updated annually.
Build Your Own Rainbow
Barry Hopson and M Scalley, The Life Skills Teaching Programme
Wanting to Work
National Depression Campaign leaflet 1999, Telephone 020 7207 3293
Jobsearch Manual
Management Books 2000, 1998.
How to Return to Work
Ann Dobson, How To Books
Job Hunting for Dummies
Max Messmer, IDG Books, ISBN 1-56884-388-7
Preparing your Own CV
Rebecca Corfield, Kogan Page Ltd, ISBN 0-794-2852-X
THE INTERNET contains millions of pages about disabilities, some of it about employment, and lots of it North American. A search (download a free Express Search from http://express.infoseek.com) for employment in mental health will be time-consuming but informative.
Try the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities at http://www50.pcepd.gov/pcepd/
Or the Knowledge Exchange Network http://www.mentalhealth.org.
Useful documents for Checklist 4 - Employees
Surviving Working Life:
the Mind Guide to Staying Well in the Workplace, Mind, 2000.
A Survivors Guide to Working in the Mental Health Services Susan Rooke-Matthews and Vivien Lindow. Mind, 1998.
Free leaflets on the Disability Discrimination Act
from the DRC Helpline 08457 622 633. Textphone 08457 622 644. Fax 08457 622 611.
Understanding Depression for Managers & Employees
National Depression Campaign leaflet 1999 (now Depression Alliance)