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My home, your workplace: people with physical disability negotiate their sexual health without crossing professional boundaries
- Authors:
- BROWNE Jan, RUSSELL Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 20(4), June 2005, pp.375-388.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper aims to describe research that examined the views of people with physical disability, living in Australia, of their sexual well-being needs from their own perspective. The study explored the impact their sexual well-being needs had on their relationships with professional carers. A social model of disability was used to understand how sexual well-being is facilitated or denied in community care. It also explored whether clients’ sexual well-being needs could be met without carers or clients ‘crossing the line’. The findings indicate the multiple ways that ‘professional boundaries’ were negotiated between clients and professional carers. The data show that the location of the ‘line’ changed, depending on a range of personal, social, economic and environmental factors. The data also show a gap between the sexual well-being needs of people living with a physical disability and the level of support provided at the social and organisational levels. Suggestions are made for research and practice directions.
Do social workers deny sexual rights?
- Author:
- WILLIAMS Morgan
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 28.5.92, 1992, pp.vi-vii.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Considers whether the attitudes and moral values held be professionals create more problems than they solve when it comes to dealing with the sexuality of people with disabilities.
Examining more inclusive approaches to social work, physical disability, and sexuality
- Authors:
- KATTARI Shanni K., TURNER George W.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, 16(1), 2017, pp.38-53.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
People with disabilities often experience the idea that those with disabilities are not, or should not be, sexual beings. This article examines how people with physical disabilities define sexual activity, their levels of sexual satisfaction, group differences in how people define different acts as sexual activities, and the differences in levels of sexual satisfaction. Additionally, this study (N = 450) looks at the correlations between levels of independence in multiple contexts. Levels of independence are also assessed in relationship to severity of disability and sexual satisfaction. Implications for social work and social service practice, education, and policy are discussed. (Publisher abstract)
Sexuality and disability: a case of occupational injustice
- Authors:
- SAKELLARIOU Dikaios, ALGADO Simo Salvador
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 69(2), February 2006, pp.69-76.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Sexuality is an integral part of human life; however, people with disabilities often report an unsatisfying sexual life. The aim of this study was both to explore the reasons for the reported unsatisfying life and to reframe it in terms of occupational injustice and denial of participation in meaningful occupation. In-depth interviews were carried out with six men with a spinal cord injury. Thematic analysis was applied to the data and formed the basis for the textural description of the participants' experiences. The study participants generally found that certain societal beliefs and attitudes had an impact on their participation in sexuality-related occupations. They were experiencing occupational injustice as a result of the restriction of engagement in meaningful occupation. Impairment per se was usually not perceived as a barrier to a fulfilling sexual life. The study concluded that occupational therapists should embrace occupational justice as the main purpose of the profession and include issues of sexuality in their agenda.
Sexual aspects of rehabilitation: the client's perspective
- Authors:
- NORTHCOTT Rebekah, CHARD Gill
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 63(9), September 2000, pp.412-418.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Outlines the findings of a small-scale study that explored disabled people's experiences of the sexual aspects of rehabilitation. It focuses on whether this should be the role of the occupational therapist or not. The findings from this study suggest that any health professional would be appropriate for this responsibility, including occupational therapists, but that they would need specialist training. Health professionals who work with clients with specific sexual needs are likely to require additional training in this sensitive area.
Sex on wheels
- Author:
- RAYNER Tom
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 8.9.99, 1999, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
The myth that people with severe disabilities are unable to have sex and, in any case, are not interested in it, persists. This article explores the contrary opinions and experiences of people with disabilities.