Research on Employment for Persons with Severe Mental Illness (Research in Community and Mental Health)
Publisher: JAI Press
Published: December 17, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9780762311293
Subjects: Social welfare & social services; Social Psychology; Politics / Current Events; Technology; Science/Mathematics; Handicapped; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Nonfiction; Technology / Industrial Health & Safety; Industrial Health & Safety; Psychiatry - General
First sentence: In his classic work The Social System, Talcott Parsons (1951) delineated the features of what he termed the "sick role," a role which could be occupied by individuals who had been certified as unable to carry out ordinary aspects and functions of the other social roles they typically occupied.