• Impact of Covid-19 Restrictions on Individual Placement and Support Service Delivery in Northern Norway 

      Wittlund, Sina Marion; Butenko, Daniil; Brandseth, Oda Lekve; Brinchmann, Beate; Killackey, Eóin; McDaid, David; Rinaldi, Miles; Mykletun, Arnstein (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-09-17)
      Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is an evidence-based supported employment program that helps people with severe mental illness to achieve steady, meaningful employment in competitive mainstream jobs. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of Covid-19 restrictions on IPS service delivery in Northern Norway between March and October 2020. In Norway, IPS is in the early ...
    • Implementing individual placement and support (IPS): the experiences of employment specialists in the early implementation phase of IPS in Northern Norway. The IPSNOR study 

      Moe, Cathrine Fredriksen; Brinchmann, Beate; Rasmussen, Line; Brandseth, Oda Lekve; McDaid, David; Killackey, Eóin; Rinaldi, Miles; Borg, Marit; Mykletun, Arnstein (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-12-20)
      Background - For decades there has been a continuous increase in the number of people receiving welfare benefits for being outside the work force due to mental illness. There is sufficient evidence for the efficacy of Individual Placement and Support (IPS) for gaining and maintaining competitive employment. Yet, IPS is still not implemented as routine practice in public community mental health ...
    • The personality profile of IPS employment specialists, and how it relates to job satisfaction: A longitudinal cohort study 

      Butenko, Daniil; Rinaldi, Miles; Brinchmann, Beate; Brandseth, Oda Lekve; Killackey, Eoin; Mykletun, Arnstein (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-08-23)
      The role of the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) employment specialist is a new type of occupation within mental healthcare. High turnover among employment specialists necessitates improvement in their recruitment and retention. One element that impacts retention is job satisfaction. We assessed the personality of 38 employment specialists (Big 5 Inventory-2) and measured job satisfaction ...