Workers' Perspectives on Workplace Disclosure of Serious Mental Illness and Their Employers' Responses.

ABSTRACT: Persons with serious mental illness are often reluctant to disclose their disability to an employer because of the intense stigma associated with their illness. Yet, disclosure may be desirable to gain access to employer-provided job accommodations, or to achieve other goals. In this article, we aimed to (1) describe the contexts in which workers in regular employment disclose a mental illness to their employer and (2) describe employer responses to disclosure, as perceived by the workers themselves. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 40 workers, who were currently or formerly employed in a mainstream, regular job, post-onset of mental illness. Workers were asked to describe the circumstances that led to disclosure, and to describe their employers' responses to disclosure. Conv

SUBMITTER: White RMB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10202847 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature