Significant Disability: Issues Affecting People With Significant Disabilities from a Historical, Policy, Leadership, and Systems Perspective - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0398071934 ISBN 13: 9780398071936

Verlag: Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

This text will provide the reader with a comprehensive overview of the issues that affect people with significant disabilities from a historical, policy, leadership, and systems perspective. The text will be particularly useful in either graduate or advanced undergraduate courses for prospective rehabilitation counselors, teachers, community mental health professionals, social workers, psychologists, case managers, or allied health professionals. A major goal of the text is to transmit the ideal of living, working, and playing in the community an ideal that has often been denied to persons who have significant disabilities. Part One of the text, 'Historical, Philosophical, and Public Policy Perspectives,' issues relating to community living education, employment, housing, transportation, health care, and leisure are explored from a historical perspective that begins with the identification of issues affecting persons with significant disabilities that have impeded independence, productivity, and inclusion within the larger community. Next, an overview is provided on the various social contexts and connections between social and economic forces urbanization, industrialization, and immigration that fostered the development of institutions as a means of dealing with the poor, deviant, and those with disabilities. The history of institutionalization is chronicled, as well as the key and constitutional challenges to segregation and exclusion of persons with disabilities. In Part Two, 'Portraits of Leadership,' the perspectives of persons with significant disabilities, parents, and siblings focus on the issues of everyday life from the vantage point of life roles.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0398071934
• ISBN 13: 9780398071936
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 225
• Herausgeber: Martin E. Davis Jr.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar