scholarly journals Turning experience into theory: The affirmation model as a tool for critical Praxis

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 108-121
Author(s):  
Colin Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
The Social ◽  
Praxis I ◽  
Practical Tool

In this article I discuss 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. I consider 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. I then outline my own research, undertaken with the aim of identifying whether useful affirmation model definitions might be fashioned, and relate my conclusions to Freire’s idea of critical Praxis. I conclude 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..

scholarly journals Enacting Equity in Higher Education through Critical Disability Studies: A Critical Community Self-Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leyton Schnellert ◽  
Pamela Richardson ◽  
Earllene Roberts ◽  
Sara McDonald ◽  
Carolyn MacHardy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Critical Disability Studies ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Self Study ◽  
The University ◽  
Constant Comparative Analysis

In this critical community self-study, we describe the development of the Interdisciplinary Disability and Inclusion Research Collaborative (IDIRC) at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. IDIRC is a self-organizing collective involving eleven faculty, students and staff devoted to Critical Disability Studies (CDS) and the relationships between CDS, practice and social change. We ask: What are the social relations, commitments, activities, and research needs of this university's researchers, students and staff in relation to disability and inclusion? Through a constant comparative analysis of interview data we surfaced themes related to the social relations, commitments, activities and research needs of our members. Our findings and discussion illustrate how similar cross-disciplinary groups might build inclusive spaces, which unite staff, graduate students and faculty towards disrupting normativity, interdisciplinarity, and praxis within and beyond academia. IDIRC attends to the embodiment of values and theoretical perspectives that are relational, diversity-positive, intersectional and advocacy-oriented.

scholarly journals Perilaku Masyarakat dan Peran Pekerja Sosial dalam Membantu Korban Terdampak Pandemi Corona Virus Diseases (COVID-19)

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Fadlilah Purdananto
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Analytical Method ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Social Function ◽  
Virus Diseases ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact

Pandemi Corona Virus Disease (Covid-19) memiliki dampak yang signifikan ke perubahan perilaku masyarakat. Dampak tersebut memunculkan permasalahan berupa ketidakmampuan masyarakat dalam mengelola rasa curiga, takut, sikap over-protektif. Bila hal itu tidak diselesaikan dengan baik, maka dapat merusak hubungan sosial antar individu. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif-analitis, dengan menggunakan teori psikodinamika. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pekerja sosial berperan dalam mengubah perilaku masyarakat, sehingga mereka mampu menyelesaikan permasalahan sosial akibat dampak pandemi Covid-19. Peranan pekerja sosial, yakni: pertama, berperan dalam meningkatkan fungsi sosial individu-individu. Hal itu dilakukan pekerja sosial dengan memberikan pertolongan agar individu mampu memahami konflik (kepanikan/keresahan) pikiran-pikiran dan perasaannya. Kedua, pendampingan sosial kepada masyarakat. Hal itu dilakukan pekerja sosial dengan mengedukasi dan membantu mensosialisasikan kegiatan yang bertujuan untuk melakukan pencegahan atau penurunan penyebaran Covid-19.[The Corona Virus Disease (Covid-19) pandemic has a significant impact on changing people's behavior. This impact raises problems in the form of the community's inability to manage suspicion, fear, over-protection. If it is not resolved properly, it can damage social relations between individuals. This research uses descriptive-analytical method, using psychodynamic theory. The results of the study show that social workers play a role in changing people's behavior, so that they are able to solve social problems due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. The role of social workers, namely: first, plays a role in improving the social function of individuals. This is done by social workers by providing assistance so that individuals are able to understand the conflict (panic/anxiety) of their thoughts and feelings. Second, social assistance to the community. This is done by social workers by educating and helping to disseminate activities aimed at preventing or reducing the spread of Covid-19.]

scholarly journals “This journey has definitely changed me”: An ethnographic narrative exploring disabled peoples’ lives through embodied experiences and identity negotiation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Callan Sait
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Social Stigma ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Social Model Of Disability ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Embodied Experiences

<p>Following calls from both disability studies and anthropology to provide ethnographic accounts of disability, this thesis presents the narratives of nine people living with disability, focusing on what disability means to them, how it is incorporated into their identities, and how it shapes their lived experiences. While accounts of disability from disability studies often focus on the social model of disability (Shakespeare 2006) and emphasise social stigma and oppression (Goffman 1967, Susman 1994), anthropological accounts often emphasise the suffering and search for cures (Rapp and Ginsburg 2012) that is assumed to accompany disability. Both approaches have their benefits, but neither pay particularly close attention to the personal experiences of individuals, on their own terms.  By taking elements from both disciplines, this thesis aims to present a balanced view that emphasises the lived experiences of individuals with disability, and uses these experiences as a starting point for wider social analysis. The primary focus of this thesis is understanding how disability shapes an individual’s identity: what physical, emotional, and social factors influence how these people are perceived – by themselves and others? Through my participants’ narratives I explore how understandings of normal bodies and normal lives influence their sense of personhood, and investigate the role of stigma in mediating social encounters and self-concepts. Furthermore, I undertake a novel study of the role of technology in the lives of people living with disability. My work explores how both assistive and non-assistive (‘general’) technologies are perceived and utilised by my participants in ways that effect not just the physical experience of disability, but also social perceptions and personal understandings of the body/self.  I argue that although the social model of disability is an excellent analytical tool, and one which has provided tangible benefits for disabled people, its political nature can sometimes lead to a homogenisation of disabled experiences; something which this thesis is intended to remedy by providing ethnographic narratives of disability, grounded in the embodied experiences of individuals.</p>

scholarly journals “This journey has definitely changed me”: An ethnographic narrative exploring disabled peoples’ lives through embodied experiences and identity negotiation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Callan Sait
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Social Stigma ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Social Model Of Disability ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Embodied Experiences

<p>Following calls from both disability studies and anthropology to provide ethnographic accounts of disability, this thesis presents the narratives of nine people living with disability, focusing on what disability means to them, how it is incorporated into their identities, and how it shapes their lived experiences. While accounts of disability from disability studies often focus on the social model of disability (Shakespeare 2006) and emphasise social stigma and oppression (Goffman 1967, Susman 1994), anthropological accounts often emphasise the suffering and search for cures (Rapp and Ginsburg 2012) that is assumed to accompany disability. Both approaches have their benefits, but neither pay particularly close attention to the personal experiences of individuals, on their own terms.  By taking elements from both disciplines, this thesis aims to present a balanced view that emphasises the lived experiences of individuals with disability, and uses these experiences as a starting point for wider social analysis. The primary focus of this thesis is understanding how disability shapes an individual’s identity: what physical, emotional, and social factors influence how these people are perceived – by themselves and others? Through my participants’ narratives I explore how understandings of normal bodies and normal lives influence their sense of personhood, and investigate the role of stigma in mediating social encounters and self-concepts. Furthermore, I undertake a novel study of the role of technology in the lives of people living with disability. My work explores how both assistive and non-assistive (‘general’) technologies are perceived and utilised by my participants in ways that effect not just the physical experience of disability, but also social perceptions and personal understandings of the body/self.  I argue that although the social model of disability is an excellent analytical tool, and one which has provided tangible benefits for disabled people, its political nature can sometimes lead to a homogenisation of disabled experiences; something which this thesis is intended to remedy by providing ethnographic narratives of disability, grounded in the embodied experiences of individuals.</p>

scholarly journals Perceptions of the social worker role in adult community mental health teams in England

2020 ◽  
pp. 147332502092408
Author(s):  
Michele Abendstern ◽  
Jane Hughes ◽  
Mark Wilberforce ◽  
Karen Davies ◽  
Rosa Pitts ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Community Mental Health Team ◽  
Mental Health Team ◽  
Health Team ◽  
The Social

There is a growing recognition of the importance of the social work contribution within community mental health services. However, although many texts describe what the mental health social work contribution should be, little empirical evidence exists about their role in practice and the difference it might make to service users. This qualitative study sought to articulate this contribution through the voices of social workers and their multidisciplinary colleagues via focus group discussions across four English Mental Health Trusts. These considered the impact of the social worker on the service user. Thematic analysis resulted in the identification of three over-arching themes: social workers own perceptions of their contribution situated within the social model; the high value their colleagues placed on social work support and leadership in a range of situations and the concerns for service users if social workers were withdrawn from teams. Key findings were that social workers are the only professional group to lead on the social model; that this model enhances the whole teams’ practice and is required if service users are to be offered support that promotes long-term recovery and that without social workers, the community mental health team offer would be more transactional, less timely, with the potential for the loss of the service users’ voice. If social work is to make a full contribution to community mental health team practice, it must be clearly understood and provided with the support to enable social workers to operate to their full potential.

“Almost Equal”: Confronting Norms and Normality in Experiencing Visual Disability

2020 ◽  
pp. 089692052094536
Author(s):  
Hana Porkertová
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Visual Disability ◽  
Critical Disability Studies ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Czech Society

This article examines the everyday experience of visually disabled people with norms and normality and confronts it with three approaches discussed in disability studies: (i) the medical model, (ii) the social model, and (iii) critical disability studies. The most available model to the people in the study, as well as the most widespread approach in Czech society, is the medical model. However, the text shows that although other approaches are rather marginal, their logic is present in the everyday experience of the communication partners in the research. They can espouse the rigid, medical model, while, at the same time, confronting the construction of norms that both the social model and critical disability studies defy. This finding reveals both the normative and subversive character of disability, manifested in visually impaired experience.

Disability Studies Gets Fat

Hypatia ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Mollow
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Scientific Concept ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Feminist Disability Studies ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
Interpretive Framework

This article invites disability scholars to “get fat,” that is, to support the goals of the fat justice movement. I argue that the contemporary politics of fatness can productively be read through the lens of disability studies’ social model. At the same time, I mobilize feminist critiques of the social model to push fat disability studies toward a more in‐depth engagement with the topics of health and illness. Additionally, I contend that feminist scholars’ accounts of our personal relationships to fatness and disability can make crucial contributions to our scholarly work. These arguments take shape within a new interpretive framework that I introduce: “setpoint epistemology,” which brings together the feminist disability studies notion of “sitpoint theory” and the scientific concept of “setpoint theory.”

scholarly journals Revisiting the Stanford Prison Experiment from the Perspective of the Social Model of Disability: A Teaching Experience

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mujde Koca-Atabey
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Social Model Of Disability ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
The Social ◽  
Stanford Prison Experiment

This article aims to revisit the Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) from the perspective of disability studies. The SPE is an issue that inevitably comes to light while teaching Social Psychology and how it contributes to a different course titled Psychological, Social and Cultural Aspects of Disabilities. The SPE presents a pioneering piece of research within Social Psychology. Similarly, the social model has reformed the concept of disability. The SPE and further studies demonstrate the importance of social forces in shaping human behaviour; i.e. they explore how good people might turn evil in particular circumstances. The social model of disability emphasises the role of social oppression in creating disability. As these two courses contribute to each other, it is discussed that an appropriate level of analysis within the discipline of psychology has much to contribute to the inherently interdisciplinary field of disability studies and vice versa. Interdisciplinary curriculums might be a step towards inclusive higher education.

Design to Break Barriers

2020 ◽  
pp. 351-360
Author(s):  
Jesse Rathgeber
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Critical Consciousness ◽  
Disabled Persons ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Social Model Of Disability ◽  
Iterative Design ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Instruments

In this experience, learners will develop a critical consciousness of barriers to participation rooted in ableism that are “baked into” instruments. This critical consciousness will assist learners in creating controllers with lower/no barriers for disabled persons/persons with disabilities. Learners will encounter concepts such as the “social model of disability” that come from Disability Studies scholarship in order to find and address disabling features of commercially-available instruments and to design new instruments, controllers, and practices that are anti-ableist. Through these experiences, learners will develop skills and knowledge related to using microcontrollers such as the Makey Makey and coding platforms such as Scratch through an iterative design process.

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