There are good reasons to suppose that working might promote recovery from schizophrenia and other psychoses, including improved social integration, normalizing peer relations and enhanced self-image. Work is a natural adult activity and a source of identity. A job can bring increased income, expanded social contacts and a sense of meaning in life, while unemployment carries risks of alienation, apathy, substance abuse, ill health and isolation… When treatment systems focus on work as an outcome, they become more oriented towards the individual's strengths and potential

Principles of Social Psychiatry -
Wiley-Blackwell
Chapter 31: Principles of Social Intervention
31.4.8 Value of work
By Richard Warner .