PSYC 3850 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Deinstitutionalisation, Social Environment, Miranda Warning

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3850
• Professor: Carol Anne Hendry

Document Summary

Societal characteristics: individuals rights within society, how individuals with cids interact with the justice system, and the rights of individuals to treatment over the life span. Family characteristics: concerns of parents of children with cids, early childhood concerns, issues related to siblings, issues related to planning for the future, and the adult with cid as a parent and family member. Multicultural characteristics: the importance of sociological and demographic factors in groups represented in special education and educational factors that interact with culture to affect individuals, families, and educators. How individual"s rights are respected and protected within the larger society. Individual rights: one must be competent in order to give consent, appointing a guardian is serious. It limits a person"s autonomy, that is, the person"s choice of how to live and from whom to receive support to carry out that choice. It transfers the person"s rights of autonomy to another person, guardian: guardianship.