The impact of employment counseling on substance user treatment participation and outcomes | Knowledge Translation for Employment Research Center

Authors:	Resnick, S. G., Neale, M. S., & Rosenheck, R. A.
Year Published	2004
Publication	Substance Use & Misuse
Volume	39
Number	13
Pages	2391-2424
Publisher	Marcel Dekker
Background	Employment Counseling (EC) is one of the more frequently received ancillary services in substance user treatment. Examining the impact of EC on treatment participation, post discharge abstinence and employment helps determine need for services and future study.
Purpose	This article provides an analysis of the impact employment counseling has on individual‚ participation in treatment, post discharge abstinence and employment.
Setting	The setting included various community mental health centers providing substance abuse counseling.
Sample	A sub-sample of 988 adult clients discharged from 143 outpatient non- methadone substance abuse treatment facilities from the Alcohol and Drug Services Study was used.
Data Collection	Data obtained from the treatment record abstracts and from interviews with the same clients were used in multivariate regressions that controlled for client demographic and background characteristics, facility characteristics, and characteristics of the sampled treatment episode. (pg. 2397) Five dependent variables were examined: treatment participation, treatment duration, treatment completion, abstinence since discharge, and employment since discharge.
Control	Clients were in two groups for comparison. One group had met-need for employment counseling. The second group had unmet need and did not participate in employment counseling.
Findings	Clients with met need for employment counseling had longer treatment duration than those with unmet need (did not participate in employment counseling). There was no significant difference for treatment completion between the met-need and the unmet-need groups. Receipt of employment counseling has no impact on post discharge abstinence. Clients with met need for employment counseling were more than three times more likely to be employed at any time after discharge than clients with unmet needs. (p 2407)
Conclusions	This study showed that clients who needed and received employment counseling have both better treatment participation and greater likelihood of employment after discharge than clients with unmet need. (p 2413)
URL	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15603009
Disabilities
Populations	Male & Female
Outcomes	Employment acquisition
NIDILRR Funded	Not Reported
Research Design	Observational
Peer Reviewed	Yes

Year Published

2004

Publication

Substance Use & Misuse

Volume

39

Number

13

Pages

2391-2424

Publisher

Marcel Dekker

Background

Employment Counseling (EC) is one of the more frequently received ancillary services in substance user treatment. Examining the impact of EC on treatment participation, post discharge abstinence and employment helps determine need for services and future study.

Purpose

This article provides an analysis of the impact employment counseling has on individual‚ participation in treatment, post discharge abstinence and employment.

Setting

The setting included various community mental health centers providing substance abuse counseling.

Sample

A sub-sample of 988 adult clients discharged from 143 outpatient non- methadone substance abuse treatment facilities from the Alcohol and Drug Services Study was used.

Data Collection

Data obtained from the treatment record abstracts and from interviews with the same clients were used in multivariate regressions that controlled for client demographic and background characteristics, facility characteristics, and characteristics of the sampled treatment episode. (pg. 2397)
Five dependent variables were examined: treatment participation, treatment duration, treatment completion, abstinence since discharge, and employment since discharge.

Control

Clients were in two groups for comparison. One group had met-need for employment counseling. The second group had unmet need and did not participate in employment counseling.

Findings

Clients with met need for employment counseling had longer treatment duration than those with unmet need (did not participate in employment counseling). There was no significant difference for treatment completion between the met-need and the unmet-need groups. Receipt of employment counseling has no impact on post discharge abstinence. Clients with met need for employment counseling were more than three times more likely to be employed at any time after discharge than clients with unmet needs. (p 2407)

Conclusions

This study showed that clients who needed and received employment counseling have both better treatment participation and greater likelihood of employment after discharge than clients with unmet need. (p 2413)

URL

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15603009

Disabilities

Populations

Male & Female

Outcomes

Employment acquisition

NIDILRR Funded

Not Reported

Research Design

Observational

Peer Reviewed

Yes