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Exploring how the social model of disability can be re-invigorated: in response to Mike Oliver
- Author:
- LEVITT Jonathan M.
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 32(4), 2017, pp.589-594.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
In his 2013 article in Disability & Society, Oliver recommended that the social model should either be replaced or re-invigorated. In this article, the author argues that the social model’s current emphasis reflects the social conditions in which it was introduced, and that the model’s impact on disabled people’s lives would increase if its emphasis was to more accurately reflect the current social conditions in the geographical regions in which it is applied. In order to help foster its re-invigoration, the author ask five questions for discussion on the way forward for the social model. The questions were identified through examining published writing on the scope of the social model and on the model’s relationship with other models of disability. (Edited publisher abstract)
A contribution towards a possible re-invigoration of our understanding of the social model of disability’s potential
- Author:
- IACOVOU Maria
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 36(7), 2021, pp.1169-1185.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
There has been published work in Disability & Society showing that the social model of disability may be re-invigorated if its emphasis reflects current social conditions and their specific context and if relevant questions are applied to specific impairment labels by each country. In this paper, I further address the issue of terminologies, concerning the notions of impairment, disability, the social model, as well as some terms with negative connotations surrounding these notions. I argue that, in attempting to detangle part of language’s complexity, it may be important to re-focus on the dynamic nature of relevant chameleon-like terminologies and their impact on attitudes towards disability, which seem to be prolonged. This scope, when coupled to a clearer focus on a materialist approach to disability, may act as a catalyst towards a re-invigoration of our understanding of the social model’s potential. (Edited publisher abstract)
Centering social justice in mental health practice: epistemic justice and social work practice
- Author:
- JOHNSTONE Marjorie
- Journal article citation:
- Research on Social Work Practice, 31(6), 2021, pp.634-643.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article examines how mental health social work practice can move outside the hegemony of the medical model using approaches that honor the centering of social justice. By using the philosophical analysis of epistemic injustice and the ethics of knowing, I move out of the traditional psychiatric and psychological conceptual frameworks and discuss new guiding principles for practice. In the context of the radical tradition in social work and the impetus to blend theory with practice, I consider the use of narrative and anti-oppressive approaches to center social justice principles in individual dyadic work as well as in wider systems family and community work and policy advocacy. I evaluate these approaches through the principles of epistemic justice and discuss the importance of a relational collaborative approach where honoring the client and exploring lived experience are central to both the concepts of testimonial justice, hermeneutic justice and anti-oppressive practice. (Edited publisher abstract)
Re-examining relationships between experience, knowledge, ideas and research: a key role for recipients of state welfare and their movements
- Author:
- BERESFORD Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work and Society: International Online Journal, 8(1), 2010, Online only
- Publisher:
- University of Bielefeld
The author discusses the emergence of service user movements in health, welfare and social care. The development of the UK disabled people's movement is used as a case study to illustrate the challenge participatory approaches pose to more traditional approaches of social policy formulation. A critique of the concept of 'care' is provided, and alternative methods
A sociological treatment exploring the medical model in relation to the neurodiversity movement with reference to policy and practice
- Authors:
- CASANOVA Emily L., WIDMAN Cheryl J.
- Journal article citation:
- Evidence and Policy, 17(2), 2021, pp.363-381.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
Background: The Medical Model of disability focuses on diagnosed conditions. It is used in policy particularly to categorise people. This enables predictions and forecasting about the size of policy needs but tends to homogenise disability representations, assigning a negative evaluation to illness that may be irrespective of patho-anatomical correlates. The Social Model considers disability as imposed by society through attitudes and barriers. The Neurodiversity Model is a type of social and cultural model with biological implications; it states that differences in brain and behaviour lie on a non-pathological spectrum. Critics say this whitewashes lived experience. Policymakers may devalue the Neurodiversity Model’s origins within activist neurodiverse communities. The model that policy and practice decision makers use has fundamental effects on their impacts. Aims and objectives: The Medical and Neurodiversity Models are reviewed in reference to their politicisation as ways to characterise disability, and identity politics. The implications socially and for disability policy and practice and evidence use are considered. Key conclusions: Both models fall short in addressing the needs of the broad community of the disabled, yet both have useful features. We propose the Biological Gradient Model (BGM), which integrates scientific theory while avoiding pathology-based concepts and value-laden judgments concerning ‘deficiency’. Its usefulness is demonstrated; it resolves some of the ambiguity and tensions that exist in the way people with disability are viewed by different groups and treated within policy. It has the potential to reduce issues of partial representation, where the voices of those who cannot self-advocate may be less heard. (Edited publisher abstract)
The social model and contextual safeguarding: key messages for practice
- Authors:
- FEATHERSTONE Brid, et al
- Publisher:
- University of Bedfordshire. International Centre
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Pagination:
- 7
- Place of publication:
- Bedford
Contextual Safeguarding is an approach to safeguarding young people from harm they experience in extra-familial contexts. As such it is compatible with, and supports the development of, a range of practice frameworks and models that are being used to improve child protection responses and systems. This briefing explores the relationship between Contextual Safeguarding and the Social Model of Child Protection – and the potential that may exist in bringing these two ideas together to create child protection practices that target the social conditions in which abuse occurs. The briefing is divided into three sections. In section one we summarise the two approaches. In the second section we reflect on what the two approaches share and where they may diverge. In the final section we present how they could work together by use of a case study, and make recommendations for how to explore this potential in the future. The paper argues that there are many opportunities to draw these two approaches together to realise the aims that they share. Building a framework for assessment, or practice more widely, that speaks to both approaches could be a good place to start. A partnership between the two approaches offers a bespoke opportunity to embed a Social Model within Contextual Safeguarding’s on-going project of child protection system reform, and to push Contextual Safeguarding beyond intervention in parks, schools and groups to understanding the complex systems of inequalities that shape the spaces it has traditionally been concerned with. (Edited publisher abstract)
Why we do not need a ‘stronger’ social model of disability
- Author:
- RIDDLE Christopher A.
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 35(9), 2020, pp.1509-1513.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Recent calls to amend the social model of disability to articulate and defend a broader set of rights for people with disabilities should be met with critical reflection. For example, Berghs et al. suggest a move to a ‘stronger’ social model - one that acts as a response to the threats against disabled people’s human rights. While the article brings to the forefront the many violations of human rights present in the lives of people with disabilities, it nonetheless mischaracterizes the solution. While people with disabilities do face tremendous injustices, many of which can rightly be thought of as violations of human rights, the proper target of our concern should be on how we conceptualize the notions of equality and justice to inform sound policy, and not on how we model the experience of disability. I suggest these arguments put the cart before the horse. (Edited publisher abstract)
‘Mad’, mad studies and advancing inclusive resistance
- Author:
- BERESFORD Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 35(8), 2020, pp.1337-1342.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
‘Mad’ is a contentious term with which many service users/survivors feel uncomfortable. Yet it is the framework for a major new user-led challenge to bio-medical thinking about distress – Mad Studies – which is coming in for criticism for this and other identified shortcomings. Why has it adopted this controversial, conflict-ridden title? This article will explore current criticisms and raise the question of what Mad Studies’ strategy should be to address them for the future? (Publisher abstract)
Do disabled people need a stronger social model: a social model of human rights?
- Authors:
- BERGHS Maria, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 34(7-8), 2019, pp.1034-1039.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The paper introduces the social model of disability by reflecting on its origins and legacy, with particular reference to the work of the Union of the Physically Impaired against Segregation. The paper argues that there has been a gradual rolling back of the rights and entitlements associated with the social model of disability. Yet no alternative for the social model has been proposed in response to such threats to disabled people’s human rights. Disabled people need a stronger social model that acts as a means to a society which enables and ensures their rights; the right to live a dignified life, as well as to live in an environment that enables people to flourish with disability. (Edited publisher abstract)
Exploring how the social model of disability can be re-invigorated for autism: in response to Jonathan Levitt
- Author:
- WOODS Richard
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 32(7), 2017, pp.1090-1095.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Levitt argues that the social model of disability needs to be re-invigorated, potentially by adapting the tool for separate countries. The social model has been successfully applied for some disabled groups in the United Kingdom. However, the social model is not implemented for neurodivergent labels such as autism, through the negative language of autism, causing severe problems for autistic individuals’ daily lives. The social model can be re-invigorated for autism, removing social barriers by changing non-autistic people’s attitudes towards autism through ensuring positive language of autism, preventing the categorisation of autism and fully enacting The Autism Act 2009 and The Equality Act 2010. (Edited publisher abstract)