Abstract Schizophrenia impose a heavy toll on a person’s
capacity to work, there are serious barriers to
employment that mental health service users have to
overcome some of them within mental health service
themselves, stigma and discrimination from employers and
the general public, having basis as their implicit assumption
regarding employability of people with mental health
problems. This is an outcome study based on single case
design methodology which assessed the efficacy of social
case work (intervention). It provides evidence that a person
with schizophrenia can achieve and maintain successful
employment with adequate social case work intervention
despite the challenges like stigma imposed by this serious
mental illness.