Disclosure of mental illness to prospective employers: Clinical, psychosocial, and work correlates in persons receiving supported employment.

•Most participants (64.7%) disclosed their psychiatric disorder in their first job.•There was a tendency for those with multiple jobs who did not disclose initially to shift to disclosure in subsequent jobs.•Participants who disclosed for their first job had worse baseline cognitive scores, lower self-esteem, and poorer psychosocial functioning than those who did not disclose.•Participants who disclosed to their first employer were more likely to obtain jobs that matched their interests, and worked significantly longer than those who did not disclose.