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Constructions and creations: idealism, materialism and disability theory
- Author:
- PRIESTLEY Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 13(1), February 1998, pp.75-94.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article suggests that a proper understanding of disability theory requires more than a distinction between individual and social model approaches. It is also helpful to distinguish between materialist and idealist explanations. These two dimensions are used to generate a four-fold typology which highlights important differences between the main approaches. Social model approaches are examined in more detail and the article concludes that although social constructionist accounts have been useful they do not provide a sufficient level of explanation.
The person-centred approach in work with disabled persons
- Author:
- ZINSCHITZ Elizabeth
- Journal article citation:
- Counselling, 9(3), August 1998, pp.210-212.
The author discusses her work with disabled people and identifies the need to help a disabled person using a person-centred approach.
Conductive education and the politics of disablement
- Author:
- READ Janet
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 13(2), April 1998, pp.279-293.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Discusses how conductive education has been characterised by some disabled academics as an intervention that is oppressive to disabled people. This article describes the practice of Conductive Education and its development in the United Kingdom and explores why it came to be perceived by some from within the disabled people's movement as contrary to their interests.
In whose service? Technology, care and disabled people: the case for a disability politics perspectives
- Authors:
- JOHNSON Liz, MOXON Eileen
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 13(2), April 1998, pp.241-258.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Discusses the introduction of telematics technologies, which are advancing rapidly in Britain and throughout the world, and which impact increasingly on the lives of disabled people. Argues that technology based services have been largely determined by the interests of care service professionals, technologists and the commercial sector. Missing from the debate has been the perspective of the disability movement, which challenges professional hegemony, and introduces important issues such as choice, control and access to the wider environment.
An examination of current practices in the provision of care: exploring these practices in social work education
- Author:
- MUNFORD Robyn
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Education (The International Journal), 17(1), March 1998, pp.57-76.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
In Aotearoa/New Zealand social work education has incorporated within its curriculum an understanding of the ways in which power relations are constructed and maintained. This has focused upon an analysis of social, political, economic and cultural contexts in an effort to reveal how individuals and groups become marginalised. Frameworks for analysis have centred on feminist critiques of the positions of men and women, explorations of the way Maori have been marginalised and examination of how class positions determine the opportunities open to individuals. Theoretical ideas relating to these experiences have been translated into guidelines for social work practice (see Munford & Nash, 1994). An exploration of the experience of disability and the critique of how disability is constructed is now becoming a significant component of the social work curriculum. This article outlines some of the current debates and the implications for social work education. The focus is on people with disabilities and the discourses which determine the positions of people with disabilities and their support workers and caregivers.
Area agency on aging outreach and assistance for households with older carers of an adult with a developmental disability
- Authors:
- JANICKI Matthew, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 10(1), 1998, pp.13-36.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Reports on a research project undertaken in New York assessing how social services and ageing agencies approached outreach and direct aid to families caring for someone with a developmental disability. Also discusses the kind of support carers need, what future care needs will be required and how agencies will respond to these needs.
Sheltered and supported employment in the 1990s: the experiences of disabled workers in the UK
- Author:
- HYDE Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 13(2), April 1998, pp.199-215.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Discusses how sheltered and supported employment are important areas of social policy provision for disabled people in the UK, but they have received little attention in the sociological literature on disability. This omission is addressed by developing a framework for understanding the state's employment policy for disabled people. It is argued that recent changes in sheltered and supported employment provision must be understood in the context of broader labour market restructuring. Concludes that an adequate approach to the employment needs of disabled people needs to go beyond micro-policy debates on the relative merits of existing employment programmes and, instead, engage at a broader level of societal change.