2021 Volume 3 Pages 1-11
Job-seekers who visit public employment security offices, while harbouring anxieties about their mental health problems, are often reluctant to use welfare-type employment services. While considering the feelings of these individuals, career counsellors must provide support that enables them to look for work in ways that are suitable, and which successfully leads to some form of employment. The underlying concepts of Individual Placement and Support (IPS), which is an employment program that see employment as an opportunity for recovery, and the use of a Focusing-oriented therapy approach to connect to employment, appears to be useful in supporting the employment of these individuals. This paper examines and proposes methods of support based on this approach, while also presenting hypothetical case examples, which focus on assistance provided from the time job-seekers visit the public employment security office’s general employment desk, to the time they submit job applications.
