title: [Work as a possible means of self-esteem].
abstract: Work is recommended as a therapeutic tool in dealing with mental disorders because it makes individuals feel useful since they can use their skills to fulfill what is required. The authors designed customized rehabilitation projects, including work, spread over 25 different manufacturing processes. Every morning, 120 subjects under treatment at the Department of Mental Health were admitted to work, with the chance of being hired by the enterprise that the cooperative society represented. Twenty-one people were hired within the first year of inclusion with more satisfactory results than those reported in the literature. It should be noted that none of the subjects hired ever resorted again to hospitalisation in the psychiatric department.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Salute Mentale, Azienda dei Servizi Sanitari n 5 Bassa Friulana, Palmanova, Udine. marco.bertoli@ass5.sanita.fvg.it
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bertoli
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D012649:Self Concept; D014937:Work / Q000523:psychology*