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Towards a social model approach to counselling disabled clients
- Authors:
- SWAIN John, GRIFFITHS Carol, HEYMAN Bob
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 31(1), February 2003, pp.137-152.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The social model of disability has emerged over the past 30 years in Britain to challenge the dominant individual, particularly medical and tragedy, models. This social model is borne from the experiences of disabled people and essentially defines disability as the discrimination faced by people with impairments. This paper explores the possible conflicts between some counselling approaches that can individualise and personalise problems and disability as a political issue. Drawing on research with counsellors and disabled clients, we illustrate the social construction of disability as an individualised problem within the counselling process. Considering the implications for counselling practice, we argue for an approach to counselling which recognises the social model of disability as the basis for social change.
Disabling barriers: enabling environments
- Editor:
- SWAIN John
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 306p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
In addition to analysing the barriers that disabled people encounter in education, housing, leisure and employment, this edition has new chapters on: international issues; diversity among disabled people; sexuality; and bioethics. The primary aim of this volume is to reflect changes over the past ten years since the first edition. Despite major changes in legislation, for instance, the dominant picture remains one of discrimination, prejudice, injustice and poverty, often rationalised on the grounds of supposed progress for disabled people. Part I charts the continuing development of a social approach to understanding disability and impairment that emanates from the lived experience of injustice and the establishment of a collective identity of disabled people. Part II addresses ‘image’ at its broadest – as encompassed by the notion of identity. The disabling barriers analysed in Part III are those that prevent the full participative citizenship of disabled people, that marginalise and segregate people in every aspect of social life, that deny access to and participation in organisations and that preclude equal rights. Part IV turns to the help and support provided for and by disabled people. Disabling barriers here are those faced by disabled people within the service providers’ models. Finally the reader concludes by focusing on possibilities for creating full democratic participation within the context of a rapidly changing social world.
Controversial issues in a disabling society
- Authors:
- SWAIN John, FRENCH Sally, CAMERON Colin
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 198p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
Examines the consequences of the social model of disability. From this point of view society is itself at fault, that is a disabling society that is geared to, built for and by, and controlled by non-disabled people. This exclusion of disabled people is created and constructed in every aspect of living including language, thinking, the built environment and power structures and regulations. This model asserts that whether one is disabled or not, one lives within a 'disabling society'.