The Mental Health Benefits of Work: Do They Apply to Welfare Mothers with a Drinking Problem?

Running Head: Mental Health and Welfare Reform MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS AMONG SINGLE MOTHERS: IMPLICATIONS FOR WORK AND WELFARE REFORM

The 1996 welfare reform bill changed the nature of public assistance from an open-ended entitlement to a transitional program with work requirements and time limits. The emphasis on self-sufficiency and the expectation of work is based on the assumption that poor single mothers are similar in their status and functioning to the rest of the population. However, we find that their psychological s...

Facilitating the Welfare-to-Work Transition for Women with a Mental Health Work Barrier

Do welfare benefits cause the welfare caseload?

Analyses of the welfare system generally examine one of five competing models: (1) The work disincentive model; (2) the human capital model; (3) the macroeconomic model; (4) the public choice model; or (5) the cost-of-job-loss model. This paper employs the Granger causality concept and the multiple-rank F statistic to test the implications of all five of these models simultaneously. The results...

The Effect of a supportive program on mental health of mothers of children with cerebral palsy

Background: The challenges experienced by mothers of children with cerebral palsy usually are multiple and ongoing. These challenges affect the mental health of mothers. Thus they need to be supported with supportive programs. Aim: This study was carried out to determine the effect of a designed- supportive program on mental health of mothers who have children with cerebral palsy. Method: In th...

Public health approaches to occupational injury prevention: do they work?

ion time and improved machine coding of narrative text. Other new developments in free text mining include advanced software that uses multiple word combinations and recognizes the context in which a word is used. Such software has already been used by national security agencies and has been adapted for the analysis of aviation mishaps (Dodd R, personal communication, 1 June 2001). i4 Smith www...