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Disability issues for social workers and human services professionals in the twenty-first century
- Editors:
- MURPHY John W., PARDECK John T., (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Haworth Social Work Practice Press
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 174p.
- Place of publication:
- Binghamton, NY
This text provides authoritative information that will prove to be of critical importance for disability professionals in the coming years. It covers aspects of disability that have not been well covered in the literature—issues surrounding spirituality, civil rights, and the “medical model vs. social (or minority) model” (of viewing disability) controversy. It examines the impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act in the wake of the Supreme Court’s narrowing of the Act’s powers and explore newly developed theories designed to more accurately define the true meaning of disability.
An archi-texture of learning disability services: the use of Michel Foucault
- Author:
- MCINTOSH Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 17(1), January 2002, pp.65-79.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The work of Michel Foucault has been widely used in the social sciences to explore relationships of power and knowledge. This article utilises Foucault's methods in an initial formation of discourse in the problem of care of people with learning disabilities, and focuses on the problematisation of people with learning disabilities and their care needs. This article is spilt into two halves; first classification and support structures, and secondly an architexture of learning disability services.
Studying responses to disability in South Asian histories: approaches personal, practical and pragmatical
- Author:
- MILES M.
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 16(1), January 2001, pp.143-160.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Approaches and pitfalls are described in the field of Asian disability historiography, focusing on learning difficulties and visual impairments in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. More substantial evidence has surfaced for the study of responses to disability and disabled persons than for understanding historical concepts of disability. Critiques are considered of Orientalist information-gathering, of over-dependence on institutional sources, and of methodologies crossing disciplinary boundaries. With due attention to the range of hermeneutic variations, some recognition and understanding is possible of social and individual responses to disability and disabled people in South Asian history.
The sociology of 'competence' in learning disability services
- Author:
- SIMPSON Murray K.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work and Social Sciences Review, 6(2), 1996, pp.85-97.
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
Addresses the current theoretical impasse in the field of learning disability. In an attempt to stimulate greater plurality of thought, the paper endeavours to make academics and professionals more critically self-aware of the framework in which they operate. In order to accomplish this the pivotal significance of psychological concern with 'competence' and 'adaptive behaviour' is examined. Leading on from this analysis, the influence of the psychological agenda on the shaping of contemporary services is highlighted. The principal issue identified in the paper is the potential subjugation of ethical and political issues to professional and technical ones. The set of relations described is illustrated through the conceptual model of 'mapping'. This model develops a spatial metaphor for learning disability services in order to view such interventions from a different, more sociological perspective.
Social work with disabled people
- Authors:
- OLIVER Michael, SAPEY Bob
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 218p.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
Introduction to social work with disabled people. Includes chapters on: old and new directions in social work with disability; thinking about disability; the causes of impairment and the creation of disability; disability in the family; living with disabilities; the legal and social context of disability; and some professional and organisational aspects of social work with disabled people
Models of disability: the relationship between theory and practice in non-statutory organisations
- Authors:
- STALKER Kirsten, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 19(1), February 1999, pp.5-29.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Drawing on a study exploring the meaning of the 'learning society' for adults with learning difficulties, this article examines the relationship between theory and practice in a number of voluntary and user organisations active in the learning disability field. It begins by outlining the ethos of normalisation and the social model of disability. Nine out of 10 organisations taking part in the study explicitly or implicity identified the social model as the main framework for their activities. However, significant inconsistencies in agencies accounts are identified at theoretical, policy and practice levels. A number of possible explanations for these findings are examined.