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<strong>Training</strong> <strong>Frontline</strong> <strong>Staff</strong><br />
Module 1: Basic Elements and<br />
Practice Principles<br />
Most people who live with a serious mental illness want to work. Module 1 presents<br />
the basic elements and practice principles of <strong>Supported</strong> <strong>Employment</strong> (SE). This<br />
introduction to the SE model also includes a summary of the research evidence for<br />
the effectiveness of the SE model.<br />
Why <strong>Supported</strong> <strong>Employment</strong><br />
The goal of <strong>Supported</strong> <strong>Employment</strong> (SE)<br />
is to help people with serious mental<br />
illnesses find and keep competitive jobs.<br />
As illustrated in the following vignette,<br />
SE facilitates the recovery process by<br />
supporting consumers who are interested<br />
in working in their efforts to get on with<br />
life beyond illness.<br />
Gabriel: Getting on with life<br />
beyond illness<br />
Gabriel had his first manic episode during<br />
college where he was studying music and<br />
playing in a band. When he wasn’t in the<br />
hospital with acute symptoms, he spent<br />
much of the next several years drinking<br />
and smoking marijuana with people he<br />
met while receiving services at the local<br />
community mental health center.<br />
One day, Gabriel spelled out for his clinical<br />
case manager how terrible he felt about his<br />
life and berated himself for being “a mental<br />
<strong>Training</strong> Basic Elements <strong>Frontline</strong> and <strong>Staff</strong> Practice Principles 1 Module 1
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