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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)
Reflections on the social model of distress or madness: how to make the social model of disability accessible to people with mental health challenges
- Author:
- KINN Angela
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Social Inclusion, 20(4), 2016, pp.231-237.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationships between recovery approaches and the social model of disability developed within the broader disability movement. Design/methodology/approach: Personal narrative and reflective account written from the perspective of a senior peer trainer with reference to selected literature. Findings: It is important to embrace a social model and rights-based approach within recovery approaches. Originality/value: An original viewpoint on the perspective of a peer trainer linking recovery approaches to the social model and rights-based approach developed within the broader disability arena. (Publisher abstract)
Turning experience into theory: the affirmation model as a tool for critical Praxis
- Author:
- CAMERON Colin
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work and Social Sciences Review, 17(3), 2014, pp.108-121.
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
In this article the author discusses the affirmation model, initially proposed by Swain and French (2000), as an intervention in an ongoing debate within disability studies around the usefulness of the social model. The purpose of developing models, such as the social and affirmation models, and identify the lack of definitions in Swain and French’s original suggestion as an inherent weakness are considered and the author then outlines his own research, undertaken with the aim of identifying whether useful affirmation model definitions might be fashioned. The author's conclusions are related to Freire’s idea of critical Praxis. Finally the author concludes by proposing the affirmation model as a practical tool for use by social workers to identify the ways in which disabling social relations are reproduced in everyday encounters. (Edited publisher abstract)
Madness, distress and the politics of disablement
- Editors:
- SPANDLER Helen, ANDERSON Jill, SAPEY Bob
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 320
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This book explores the challenges of applying disability theory and policy, including the social model of disability, to madness and distress. It brings together leading scholars and activists from Europe, North America, Australia and India, to explore the relationship between madness, distress and disability. Whether mental health problems should be viewed as disabilities is a pressing concern, especially since the inclusion of psychosocial disability in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This book is aimed at policy makers, practitioners, activists and academics. (Edited publisher abstract)
Social model returns to drugs misuse services
- Author:
- BOGG Daisy
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Matters (e-Magazine), April 2012, pp.16-21. Online only
- Publisher:
- The College of Social Work
The author looks at how the social model is now more common in substance misuse services and how it is benefiting service users. Two service users also explain how their social workers approach was able to help them.
Social work and a social model of madness and distress: developing a viable role for the future
- Author:
- BERESFORD Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work and Social Sciences Review, 12(2), 2005, pp.48-58.
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
This article explores the social model in relation to 'mental health' policy and practice generally and social work specifically. It highlights the continuing dominance of bio-medical approaches to and interpretations of 'mental health'; examines the development and nature of mainstream social approaches and considers mental health service users' own discussions of a social model of madness and distress. The article looks at the ramifications for social work which is based on a social model of madness and distress; what it might look like and what infrastructural supports it is likely to require to develop effectively.
Social models of disability and social work in the twenty-first century
- Author:
- STEVENS Andy R. A.
- Journal article citation:
- Ethics and Social Welfare, 2(2), July 2008, pp.197-202.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Abingdon
The author states that he has been involved with the disability rights movement for over 20 years and has seen many changes in the acceptance of its ideas in the care professions. The social model of disability is now a required ethical standpoints of personal social services and many other development services towards disabled people in England. The influence of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and public authorities' Disability Equality Duty, which came into force in December 2006, are discussed, as are the changing social model, the social model and welfare professionals, and diverse social model approaches, concluding that this constitutes an ethical issue for all involved.