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Invisible Barriers to Employment: Mental and Behavioral Health Problems

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This chapter focuses on mental health as a barrier to employment for rural low-income mothers. The authors discuss the rural/urban differences in the availability, accessibility, and acceptability of mental health care services. They present findings from the Rural Families Speak (RFS) project relative to mothers’ mental health, and in particular, depression. Mothers with depression tend to also have physical health problems, and have family members with mental and physical health problems. The authors link the literature to the Family Stress Model and confirm that family resources and perceptions of situation jointly determine an individual’s response to environment and chronic stress.

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  1. Department of Human Development, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA, USA

    Yoshie Sano

  2. Department of Human Development and Family Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA

    Leslie N. Richards

  3. Department of Family and Housing Studies, Yeungnam University, Daegu, South Korea

    Jaerim Lee

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    Jean W. Bauer

  2. Dept. Family Studies, University of New Hampshire, College Road 55, Durham, 03824, New Hampshire, USA

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Sano, Y., Richards, L.N., Lee, J. (2011). Invisible Barriers to Employment: Mental and Behavioral Health Problems. In: Bauer, J., Dolan, E. (eds) Rural Families and Work. International Series on Consumer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0382-1_6

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