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Significant disability : issues affecting people with significant disabilities from a historical, policy, leadership, and systems perspective / edited by E. Davis Martin, Jr. ; with a foreword by John S. Oehler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oehler, John S., author of introduction, etc.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- People with disabilities--Government policy--United States.
- People with disabilities.
- People with disabilities--Rehabilitation--United States.
- People with disabilities--Mental health--United States.
- Social work with people with disabilities--United States.
- Social work with people with disabilities.
- Sociology of disability--United States.
- Sociology of disability.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (245 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Springfield, Illinois : Charles C. Thomas Publisher, Ltd, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This text will provide the reader with a comprehensive overview of the issues that affect people with significant disabilities from a historical, policy, leadership, and systems perspective. The text will be particularly useful in either graduate or advanced undergraduate courses for prospective rehabilitation counselors, teachers, community mental health professionals, social workers, psychologists, case managers, or allied health professionals. A major goal of the text is to transmit the ideal of living, working, and playing in the community - an ideal that has often been denied to persons w
- Contents:
- HALF TITLE: SIGNIFICANT DISABILITY; ABOUT THE EDITOR; TITLE PAGE: SIGNIFICANT DISABILITY; CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; CONTENTS; Part 1: HISTORICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, AND PUBLIC POLICY ISSUES; Chapter 1: SIGNIFICANT DISABILITY: AN OVERVIE WOF THE ISSUES; Chapter 2: DISABILITY IN AMERICA: A HISTORY OF POLICIES AND TRENDS1; Chapter 3: DISABILITY IN AMERICA: CONTROVERSY, DEBATE, AND BACKLASH2; Chapter 4: DISABIliTY IN AMERICA: THE LEGISLATIVE RESPONSE; Part 2: PORTRAITS OF LEADERSHIP; Chapter 5: PATRICK'S METAMORPHOSIS; Chapter 6: HOW I GOT HERE; Chapter 7: A VOICE TO HEED
- Chapter 8: I'M BLIND: WHAT ABOUT IT!Chapter 9: RICHARD'S JOURNEY; Chapter 10: MY BIG BROTHER; Chapter 11: MY INVISIBLE DISABILITY: CHRONIC PAIN; Chapter 12: LEADERSHIP AND ADVOCACY: A POLITICAL PRIMER; Chapter 13: ADAPTATION TO DISABILITY; Chapter 14: TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE; Part 3: LEADERSHIP AND SYSTEMS CHANGE; Chapter 15: LESSONS LEARNED: IMPLICATIONS FOR SYSTEMS CHANGE; NAME INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-398-08394-0
- OCLC:
- 689997436
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