SynthesisAdministration and policy in mental health2023
A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of IPS Supported Employment for Young Adults with Mental Health Conditions.
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- Update on Individual Placement and Support for New Populations: A Meta-Analytic Review.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2026Pooled it
- Preference for Competitive Employment in People with Mental Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Proportions.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2025Pooled it
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- Supported employment interventions with people who have severe mental illness: Systematic mixed-methods umbrella review.PloS one · 2024Pooled it
- A dismantling study of comprehensive cognitive remediation for improving employment outcomes: what is the role of computer cognitive training?Psychological medicine · 2025Trial
- Efficacy of Individual Placement and Support (IPS) on Employment, Education, and Training in Young Adults With Early Psychosis-A Randomized Controlled Trial.Brain and behavior · 2025Trial
- Applying the ADAPT-ITT Framework to Develop a Team-based Mental Health Support Model for Young Adults Transitioning from Homelessness to Housing.Children and youth services review · 2026Article
- Baseline characteristics of a diagnostically defined early psychosis cohort entering supported employment and education: findings from the SEEearly trial.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2026Article
- The Price and Prize for Employment or Education: a Qualitative Study Examining Facilitators and Barriers from the Perspectives of Service Providers working in Supported Employment and Education and Experts by Experience with Psychosis Spectrum Disorders.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Services to improve outcomes in severe mental disorders.Neuropsychiatrie : Klinik, Diagnostik, Therapie und Rehabilitation : Organ der Gesellschaft Osterreichischer Nervenarzte und Psychiater · 2026Review
- Factors related to employment across vocational levels in patients with schizophrenia: focus on subminimum wage non-competitive employment.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Strengthening the IPS Workforce: Designing a Competency-Based IPS Workforce Development Framework for Headspace Centres in Australia.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Application of artificial intelligence in schizophrenia rehabilitation management: a systematic scoping review.Translational psychiatry · 2026Article
- Large trials of psychosocial interventions: examples from individual placement and support.International journal of public health · 2026Review
- Effective adaptations in Individual Placement and Support delivery: lessons from the drug and alcohol treatment context.International journal of public health · 2026Article
- Social exclusion as a determinant of excess mortality in people with schizophrenia-spectrum and bipolar disorders: retrospective cohort study in 0.5 million people.Psychological medicine · 2025Article
- An Evaluation of Career Opportunity Readiness Experience (CORE): An Enhancement to Supported Employment for Transition Age Youth with Serious Mental Health Diagnoses.Community mental health journal · 2025Article
- Vocational Rehabilitation in Young Adults With Incident Schizophrenia-A Danish Retrospective Cohort Study.Early intervention in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Mental disorder symptoms and diagnoses are differently associated with labour market attachment and registered income until midlife: The Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966.The International journal of social psychiatry · 2025Article
- Mixed-Methods Evaluation of the Expanded Implementation of Supported Education Within Community Youth Mental Health Services.Early intervention in psychiatry · 2025Article
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Abstract
Young adults with mental health conditions want to work and advance their education, but many need help attaining these goals. Individual Placement and Support (IPS), originally developed for working-age adults with serious mental illness, is an evidence-based employment model that may benefit young adults. This study is the first systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of IPS for this population. We conducted a systematic review of the effectiveness of IPS for young adults with mental health conditions, supplementing our electronic search of the published literature with secondary analyses of two published RCTs. Using meta-analysis, we evaluated employment rate, job duration, and education rate. Seven studies met the inclusion criteria. Four evaluated IPS for young adults with early psychosis and three evaluated IPS for other young adult subgroups. All found a significantly higher employment rate for IPS than the control group. Overall, 208 (58.3%) of 357 IPS participants and 110 (32.4%) of 340 control participants were competitively employed during follow-up, yielding an overall risk ratio of 1.69 (95% CI 1.43, 1.99), z = 6.24, p < 0.001. Six of the seven studies also reported longer job duration for IPS than the control group, yielding an overall g = 0.34 (95% CI 0.09, 0.58), z = 2.72, p < 0.01. None of four RCTs examining education outcomes found a significant difference favoring IPS, but the overall risk ratio was significant: 1.33 (95% CI 1.06, 1.66), z = 2.51, p < 0.01. Although the empirical literature is limited, IPS appears to be effective in helping young adults with serious mental illness or early psychosis gain and keep competitive jobs. The impact of IPS on education outcomes is unclear. Future research should evaluate the generalizability of these findings to the broad range of young adults with mental health conditions needing help with their employment goals.
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