Employment in Personality Disorders and the Effectiveness of Individual Placement and Support:Outcomes from a Secondary Data Analysis

PurposePersonality disorders (PDs) are associated with severe functional impairment and subsequent high societal costs, increasing the need to improve occupational functioning in PD. Individual placement and support (IPS) is an effective, evidence-based method of supported employment, which so far has been tested in various mixed patient populations with severe mental illness (SMI, including PDs). However, the effectiveness of IPS for PDs per se remains uninvestigated.MethodsData from the SCION trial were used, including 31 SMI patients with PDs and 115 SMI patients with other primary diagnose... Mehr ...