Literature Review on the Relationship Between Employment and Autonomy of Individuals with Mental Illness

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Yumi Yuzawa
Jun Yaeda

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autonomy, employment support, psychiatric disabilities

Abstract

Four themes were identified from the literature review as factors of autonomy in the employment process of people with psychiatric disabilities. The results indicated that support for increasing autonomy might be basic and common to different interventions and its specific techniques are issue to be pursued in future research.

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