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Michael Oliver, Bob Sapey
ISBN: 9781403918383
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Palgrave USA
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
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This classic text has been essential reading for students and professionals in the field of disability studies for over two decades. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the social model of disability and its implications for practitioners. It examines the ways in which disabled people have been able to develop and manage their own services, offering an up-to-date review of the literature and setting contemporary issues in appropriate historical context.
This classic text has been essential reading for students and professionals in the field of social work and disability for 20 years. Extensively revised and updated, the third edition examines the ways in which disabled people have been able to develop and manage their own services. It reconstructs social work practice in the light of these and the latest policy changes, stressing the importance to practice of thinking critically about the welfare response to disability.
| ISBN | 1403918384 | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9781403918383
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 290 | | Publisher | Palgrave USA | | Published in | Gordonsville | | Imprint | Palgrave Macmillan | | Series title | Practical Social Work Series | | Format | Paperback | | Previous ISBN | 9780333732618 | | Publication date | 06 Mar 2006 | | Height (mm) | 216 | | Library of Congress | 2005057506 | | Width (mm) | 138 | | DEWEY | 362.40941 | | Spine width (mm) | 14 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Professional / Scholarly, Postgraduate | | Pages | 224 | |
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| | | Introduction : setting the scene | | 1 | | 1 | | Social work and disability : old and new directions | | 7 | | 2 | | Thinking about disability | | 46 | | 3 | | The causes of impairment and the creation of disability | | 68 | | 4 | | Disability in the family | | 88 | | 5 | | Living with disabilities | | 121 | | 6 | | The legal and social context of disability | | 144 | | 7 | | Conclusions and implications for practice | | 169 |
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