International Perspectives on Disability Services (PDF)
The Same But Different
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Learn how to include multiculturalism in disability-related social work!
International Perspectives on Disability Services: The Same but Different presents different cultural and societal contexts on services for people with disabilities. This book...
International Perspectives on Disability Services: The Same but Different presents different cultural and societal contexts on services for people with disabilities. This book...
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Learn how to include multiculturalism in disability-related social work!
International Perspectives on Disability Services: The Same but Different presents different cultural and societal contexts on services for people with disabilities. This book covers a range of topics on disabilities related to physical status, emotional conditions, and community settings. This useful introductory reference will help you develop culturally sensitive disability services both locally and overseas, and it will promote better understanding of people with disabilities.
This book is a unique examination of services for people with disabilities as they exist in several countries. Until recently, cultural context was used to describe race or ethnicity, but this innovative text recognizes people with disabilities as a worldwide community that is advocating for equality and respect. International Perspectives on Disability Services focuses on the need for human and social services that endorse capability and empowermentpromoting the person rather than the disability.
In International Perspectives on Disability Services, you'll learn about:
International Perspectives on Disability Services: The Same but Different presents different cultural and societal contexts on services for people with disabilities. This book covers a range of topics on disabilities related to physical status, emotional conditions, and community settings. This useful introductory reference will help you develop culturally sensitive disability services both locally and overseas, and it will promote better understanding of people with disabilities.
This book is a unique examination of services for people with disabilities as they exist in several countries. Until recently, cultural context was used to describe race or ethnicity, but this innovative text recognizes people with disabilities as a worldwide community that is advocating for equality and respect. International Perspectives on Disability Services focuses on the need for human and social services that endorse capability and empowermentpromoting the person rather than the disability.
In International Perspectives on Disability Services, you'll learn about:
- using the term culture to describe the community of people with disabilitieshow cultural sensitivity and competency can be applied to the disability culture
- the dynamics of a transcultural relationship between psychotherapist and deaf or hard-of-hearing individuals
- the recent development in aphasia treatmentLife Participation Approach to Aphasia (LPAA)and the international perspective of communication therapy
- a comparison of attitudes among social work students in the United States and Japan toward people with disabilitiespeople with disabilities are not yet integrated into Japanese society, but both groups showed room for needed improvement
- a comparison of disability-related services and experiences in the United States and in Germanychild-raising leave, child-raising money, and Kindergeld (child money) helps support parents financially for the first few years, but the United States has more options for integrated schooling later in life
- Hong Kong's 25-year-old objective to encourage community integration and normalization for people with disabilities to live in the community
- the primary support network of family, community leaders, and shaman for people with disabilities among Hmong Americans in Northern California
Autoren-Porträt von Francis K. O. Yuen
Francis K. O. Yuen, DSW, ACSW, is Professor for the Division of Social Work at California State University in Sacramento. He is widely published in the areas of family health social work practice, disability, grant writing, program planning and evaluation, substance abuse, international social work, and services to refugees and immigrants. He is a member of several editorial boards, including those of the Journal of Social Work in Disability & Rehabilitation and the Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work. He has authored and edited many books, including several for The Haworth Press, Inc., such a Family Health Social Work Practice: A Knowledge and Skills Casebook (2003), Family Health Social Work Practice with Children and Family (In-Press), and the upcoming Disability and Social Work Education: Practice and Policy Issues. For over a decade, Dr. Yuen has been a consultant for local and government organizations on program evaluation, grant writing, proposal review, and human diversity issues.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Francis K. O. Yuen
- 2012, 160 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis
- ISBN-10: 1136412328
- ISBN-13: 9781136412325
- Erscheinungsdatum: 12.10.2012
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