Engaging mental disorders in the agricultural sector and social inclusion

2019 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K15000
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Agricultural science in rural society and development
• Research Institution: Tokyo University of Agriculture
• Principal Investigator: SUGIHARA Tamae 東京農業大学, 国際食料情報学部, 教授 (20277239)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 岩本 純明 東京農業大学, 国際食料情報学部, 教授 (40117479)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2020-03-31
• Keywords: 精神障害と農村 / 社会的困難を抱えた人の社会包摂

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Major findings of the research are as follows.(1) Mental disorders highly relate with social factors such as wars, natural disasters, or stress of the social relation. Mental disorders are likely to be caused directly or indirectly by the type of social relation. Difficulties of treatments for mentally handicapped people result from the fact that metal disorders caused by social factors are to be solved by socially prepared responses and considerations. (2) In this respect, participation of mentally handicapped people in the agriculture sector can support their social involvement in the local society since the agriculture sector can offer a wider varieties of working areas for the handicapped people and recognize them as one of the important operators in the sector. Therefore, involvement of mentally handicapped people into the agriculture sector can contribute not only to the social acceptance of the handicapped people but also to the increase of operators in the agriculture sector.

Free Research Field

農村社会学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

医学・農学両分野の研究者による先駆的連携の取り組みとして位置づけられる。医学的・農学的根拠をもった精神障害者の農業就労プログラムと地域生活モデルが構築され、就労を通した精神障害者の自立と社会包摂が実現する。