Rethinking Disability: Principles for Professional and Social Change (Disabilities) (Social Work Series) - Softcover

DePoy, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534549292 ISBN 13: 9780534549299

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2003

Synopsis

This book provides a theoretical lens through which to view Disability. Rather than taking a medical-diagnostic stance, which has been the traditional perspective, the authors explain disability as category in which membership is based on of judgments about explanations for what people do, experience and how they appear. In Part I, the authors discuss various aspects of the history and current trends, which influence how disability is defined and addressed. In Part II, Explanatory Legitimacy' (EL) theory is explained in detail and applied to an analysis of disability. In Part III, the EL theory is applied to rethinking disability now and in the future.

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About the Author

Dr. DePoy teaches courses in research, evaluation, grant writing and disability studies. Her scholarship embraces health and disability, issues of aging, research methodology, and evaluation practice. She is a member of more than a dozen professional associations, societies and task forces at state, national and international levels and serves as Commissioner on the Commission on Disability and Persons with Disabilities of the Council on Social Work Education. Along with this book, Dr. DePoy is co-author of another Brooks/Cole text, EVALUATION PRACTICE: THINKING AND ACTION PRINCIPLES FOR SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE, 2003.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0534549292
• ISBN 13: 9780534549299
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208