REC100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 20: Human Services, Devaluation, Paradigm Shift
Document Summary
12% of the population has some sort of disability. Word health organization (who)"s descriptions of impairment, disability, and handicap as distinct concepts help us understand how social conditions affect people"s perceptions and experiences of disability. Social construction explains how knowledge is created and assumed to be true. The lack of opportunities historically afforded to people with disabilities was because of the way. Clienthood implies that people with disabilities are dependent on an array of human services, professionals, and volunteers for most of their support. Unconsciously, new negative images of people with disabilities as clients and special were being created by many services that were designed to make life better for people. Why people with disabilities needed even better lives and how this began to happen. Social justice is a vision of society where distribution of resources is equitable, participation is valued for all, and members are safe and secure.