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Leadership and change in human services : selected readings from Wolf Wolfensberger / compiled and edited by David G. Race.
LIBRA HV40 .W65 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wolfensberger, Wolf.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human services--Philosophy.
- Human services.
- Social advocacy.
- Social role.
- Marginality, Social.
- People with mental disabilities--Social conditions.
- People with mental disabilities.
- People with mental disabilities--Services for--Moral and ethical aspects.
- People with mental disabilities--Services for.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 272 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
- Summary:
- Professor Wolf Wolfensberger has been a leading thinker, writer and motivator of change in human services for over forty years. In "Leadership and Change," David Race introduces the reader to Wolfensberger's key ideas concerning devaluation, vulnerability, normalization, social role valorization and advocacy, which can then be explored through a series of extracts from his published work. Throughout the selection, the emphasis is on placing Wolfensberger's work in contemporary context and examining its continuing relevance to the underlying values and ideologies of societies and their human services.
- Notes:
- Selections from about 335 of Wolfensberger's publications published over a span of 45 years, with comments and summary statements by the editor.
- "Full bibliography of publications of Wolf Wolfensberger": pages [231]-265.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-230) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415305624
- 0415305632
- OCLC:
- 51305647
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