In the UK, there is a drive to reduce state spend on welfare, and a view amongst some that unemployed people "just don't have the right attitude". Therapy is suggested as an intervention, with some fairly worrying consequences. Here is a summary

Positive affect as coercive strategy: conditionality, activation and the role of psychology in UK government workfare programmes -- Friedli and Stearn 41 (1): 40 -- Medical Humanities

I personally find this horrifying.

I didn't read it yet, so let me guess--is it CBT?

I'll have to read it when I feel up for it, but it does sound like it could be horrifying.

[songofthesea]

Originally Posted by Little Cat

In the UK, there is a drive to reduce state spend on welfare, and a view amongst some that unemployed people "just don't have the right attitude". Therapy is suggested as an intervention, with some fairly worrying consequences. Here is a summary

Positive affect as coercive strategy: conditionality, activation and the role of psychology in UK government workfare programmes -- Friedli and Stearn 41 (1): 40 -- Medical Humanities

I personally find this horrifying.

Yup! Horrifying. Thanks for more on this - I put this thread up a little while ago too:

http://forums.psychcentral.com/psych...ml#post5199027

[divine1966]

I think something like vocational and career counseling would be more appropriate. Mandatory therapy is ridiculous. Also not every chronically unemployed people just have bad attitude. Some might ( I personally know people who refuse to work even though there are jobs and they don't have a disability), but these are unusual cases of "work shy".

Overall the whole idea of mandatory therapy is scary

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[kecanoe]

Yikes indeed.