Leadership and change in human services : selected readings from Wolf Wolfensberger / compiled and edited by David G. Race.

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.

Physical Description:

xiv, 272 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

David Race introduces us to Wolfensberger's key ideas concerning devaluation, vulnerability, normalization, social role valorization and advocacy, which are explored through a series of extracts, with commentary, from his published work.

Contents:

1. The analysis of devaluation and wounding

2. Normalization

3. Social role valorization

4. Advocacy

5. Possibilities, limitations, and ethical issues raised by human services

6. Threats to vulnerable people

7. Relationships with, and lessons from, vulnerable people.

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": p. [231]-265.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-230) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-40442-5

1-134-40443-3

0-203-32285-1

1-280-07266-0

0-203-35263-7

9780203322857

OCLC:

52986722