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• Title: Psychiatric Disorders and Substance Dependence Among Unmarried Low-Income Mothers.
• Author : Health and Social Work
• Release Date : January 01, 2003
• Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 222 KB

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Welfare mothers experience more psychological distress and psychiatric disturbances than other groups (Bassuk, Buckner, Perloff, & Bassuk, 1998; Berton & Staab, 1996; Tolman & Rosen, 2001). Jayakody, Danziger, and Pollack (2000) analyzed data from the 1994 and 1995 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse and found that 19 percent of welfare recipients met the criteria for one of four DSM-III-R psychiatric diagnoses included in the survey. This is important because disruptions brought about by mental health disorders have been associated with lower rates of labor force participation and a drop in income (Ettner, Frank, & Kessler, 1997). The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) (P.L. 104-193) transformed welfare from an entitlement program to a temporary program that restricts the length of time during which welfare benefits can be received. PRWORA established a maximum 60-month lifetime limit for receipt of federal benefits (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families [TANF]) and mandated that recipients be involved in work-related activities within 24 months of receiving benefits. Welfare policy now emphasizes rapid labor force participation. However, if mental health and substance-related disorders are barriers to work, then the welfare recipients experiencing these problems may be at risk of losing benefits and suffering severe material hardship for themselves and their families.

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