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9780789025289

Disability and Social Work Education: Practice and Policy Issues

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  • ISBN13:

    9780789025289

  • ISBN10:

    0789025280

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-07-02
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

In Disability and Social Work Education: Practice and Policy Issues, leading social work experts provide insightful, effective analyses and strategies that address current practice and policy issues affecting social work with individuals with disabilities. Incorporating diverse perspectives, the authors address the challenges inherent in obtaining services within various systems such as education, religion, employment, social services and mental health services. This book will broaden and deepen the skill, knowledge and value bases of social work practice with populations with disabilities. They include individuals who are deaf, blind, have mobility challenges, mental and physical illness and children with special needs. This creative resource offers social work educators, students, and practitioners diverse and creative ways to integrate a generalist social work approach with their work with individuals with disabilities and the systems they must negotiate. Chapters include extensive resources, appendixes, tables and figures to clearly illustrate topics. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

About the Contributorsp. xv
Preface: Disability and Social Work Educationp. xxi
Acknowledgmentsp. xxv
An Approach to Learning About Social Work with People with Disabilitiesp. 1
Everything You Never Wanted to Know Special Education...and Were Afraid to Ask (IDEA)p. 23
MiCASSA-My Homep. 35
Resources Ancillary Services and Classroom Instruction: Thoughts of a Deaf-Blind Social Work Student and Her Teacherp. 53
An Overview of and Comments on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)p. 67
Planned Change in the Disability Communityp. 93
Integrating a Family-Centered Approach into Social Work Practice with Families of Children and Adolescents with Disabilitiesp. 111
Adjustment to Disabilityp. 135
The Impact of Sight Loss in Social Work Practicep. 157
Disability and Spirituality in Social Work Practicep. 179
The Implications of Disability Protests for Social Work Practicep. 195
Applications of a Capability Approach to Disability and the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) in Social Work Practicep. 217
Research Methods with Disabled Populationsp. 233
Indexp. 251
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