SWRK 1001H Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Deinstitutionalisation
27 Mar 2018
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Disability and social welfare: policy goals and responses. What is disability?": refers to bodies/brains that work in different ways than average: Sensory, intellectually, cognitively, psychiatrically, mobility wise, etc. Or is it something that society does to people: as in, people are disabled by the environment, ways that we talk about ability, etc. Social construction/social model ecological perspective functional limitations impairment perspective. The problem formulation matters: where locate the problem within people or outside them, is it people themselves, their abilities, access to opportunities, oppression, that is the problem, the words we choose will follow from our problem formulation: History of social policy re: disability: exclusion institutionalist, deinstitutionalisation, disability rights, people first", community living, breaking down barriers, mainstreaming, citizenship, reclaiming language, social model. Wait so i"m not supposed to praise disabled people for their bravery in overcoming their disabilities: nope. Social work asks you to locate people"s problems in their social context and attend to structural oppression.
