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The challenge of disability and access: reconceptualizing the role of the medical model
- Author:
- ROTHMAN Juliet C.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, 9(2-3), April 2010, pp.194-222.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The fields of social work and disability seek to optimise well-being and life experience for clients with disabilities. The field of disability has defined and explored several frameworks for understanding disability, which are currently polarised between the problem-centred medical models and the social disability as construction models. The differences and the interplay between them affect both individuals and society. In this article, four foundational social work theoretical models are considered in terms of their ability to integrate with disability frameworks and to address the differences between them. The author suggests the ‘bio-psycho-socio-cultural-spiritual’ model as the optimal model to both resolve the disability frameworks' duality and to optimally integrate social work and disability service provision.
Wired: early intervention and the ‘neuromolecular gaze’
- Author:
- GARRETT Paul Michael
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 48(3), 2018, pp.656-674.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Beginning with an interview with the then UK prime minister, Tony Blair, in 2006, the article critically explores how the discourse on early intervention has evolved over the past ten years. Ideas circulating around early intervention have been revitalised by neuroscience and the new prominence of what has been termed the ‘neuromolecular gaze’. This ‘gaze’, aided by new imaging technologies, is now playing a substantial role in promoting neuroscience. Moreover, neuroscience has been deployed by spokespeople from across the mainstream political spectrum and within academia to amplify the argument that early intervention into the lives of children and families is vital. At least two elements need further critical exploration: first, the assertion that a child’s brain is irrevocably ‘wired’ before the age of three; second, how this, apparently, ‘objective’ and ‘scientifically grounded’ approach is dialectically enmeshed with doxic and gendered ideas associated with attachment theory. (Edited publisher abstract)
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.
Challenging the medical model
- Authors:
- RACE David, BOXALL Kathy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.2.99, 1999, p.8.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The authors argues for an holistic and social approach to training for those who work with people with learning difficulties.
Linking models of disability for children with developmental disabilities
- Authors:
- BRICOURT JOhn C., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, 3(4), 2004, pp.45-67.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Children with disabilities, their families, and the social workers who provide services are faced with navigating complex social and institutional environments in their quest for developmental, educational and daily living supports. Models of disabilities provide conceptual frameworks for understanding and action that can inform the decisionmaking process of parents and social workers. A new ecological model of disability, the systems model, is proposed that integrates the medical model, focused on individual deficits, the social model, focused on disabling social environments, and the transactional model, focused on person-environment interactions. Diagnostic, institutional, and practice implications of the new model are discussed. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580)
Challenging the authority of the medical definition of disability: an analysis of the resistance to the social constructionist paradigm
- Author:
- DONOGHUE Christopher
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 18(2), March 2003, pp.199-208.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article attempts to explain why the social constructionist paradigm has failed to replace the medical model in American disability theory. The social movement led by American disability activists attempted to reframe the definition of disability using a minority group model based on the social constructionist paradigm. This paper argues that the disability movement was unable to successfully advance the social constructionist paradigm because the activists accepted the Americans With Disabilities Act (1990) despite its ideological basis in the medical model of disability, and the social constructionist theory does not adequately account for the importance of structural constraints to redefinition
Housing and home in later life
- Authors:
- HEYWOOD Frances, OLDMAN Christine, MEANS Robert
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 185p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
At the heart of all policies of supporting people to live and thrive into old age lies the concept of home. Yet there is a vacuum where policies concerning housing issues should be, and such policies as exist are profoundly ageist and often based on a medical model of disability. The authors of this volume share a commitment to see the issues of later life and housing re-thought to address more adequately the diverse needs and preferences of a group who constitute around one quarter of the population. The book has three strands; to uncover the theoretical origins of accepted practice; to present a critique of the present policies and to consider new theories, ideas and methodologies for achieving user centred changes.