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Multiculturalism and disability: a critical perspective
- Authors:
- GILSON Stephen French, DePOY Elizabeth
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(2), March 2000, pp.207-218.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article reviews current multicultural thinking, in relation to disability and offers a critical view of the advantages and disadvantages of positioning disability within the emergent multicultural discourse. Implications for future thinking and action to promote equal opportunity and self-determination for persons with disabilities as a cultural group with a political agenda are then advanced.
Listening to the voices of individuals with disabilities
- Authors:
- GILSON Stephen French, BRICOUT John C., BASKIND Frank R.
- Journal article citation:
- Families in Society, 79(2), March 1998, pp.188-196.
- Publisher:
- The Alliance for Children and Families
Discusses how social work literature, research, and practice on disabilities has lagged behind other topical areas dealing with oppressed groups. Presents a social work literature search and analysis as well as interviews with six individuals with disabilities about their experiences with social workers. Individuals with disabilities assert that they were treated as though they had categorically fewer aspirations, abilities, and perhaps even fundamental rights than did non-disabled people. Provides a base for follow-up research on models of consumer-focused social worker practice in the area of disability.
When people with pre-existing disabilities age in place: implications for social work practice
- Authors:
- GILSON Stephen French, NETTING F. Ellen
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Work, 22(4), November 1997, pp.290-298.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Focuses on a population of people with disabilities who are "ageing in place," that is, individuals ageing with pre-existing physical disabilities. A brief overview of people ageing with disabilities and selected background information on the increasing linkages between the ageing and disability communities is provided. Four case examples illustrate the practice implications faced by social workers in partnering with people with pre-existing disabilities and in being sensitive to their desires concerning ageing in place.
Integrating disability content in social work education: a curriculum resource
- Authors:
- GILSON Stephen French, et al
- Publisher:
- Council on Social Work Education
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 214p, bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Alexandria, VA
This book defines disability as the interplay of diverse human conditions and environmental barriers to full community inclusion. This view of disability, receives limited attention in social work curricula. Contents include: disability rights; human behaviour and the social environment; developmental disabilities; social and health issues; intervention approaches in working with families who have children; policy issues; research.