Disability: social aspects

What does 'sexual citizenship' mean in practice for people with mobility impairmentswho may need professional support to engage in sexual activity?

Get an inside perspective on life as a disabled gay man!

The most current book available on rehabilitation counseling!

In den europäischen Zivilisationen sind Teilhaberechte und Chancengleichheit wichtige ethische Orientierungen, um Gerechtigkeit im Zusammenleben von Mensch, Mitmensch und Umwelt zu gewährleisten.

This handbook provides a much-needed holistic overview of disability and sexuality research and scholarship.

Affirmative Action and the Law analyses the practical application of affirmative action measures and their efficacy in achieving substantive equality through the lenses of the United Nations human rights machinery and the legal regime and policies implemented in China, India, Central and South America, South Africa and the United Kingdom.

Prenatal genetic testing has changed the circumstances under which parents choose what pregnancies to carry to term.

This book examines the relationship between contemporary cultural representations of disabled children on the one hand, and disability as a personal experience of internalised oppression on the other.

Part of Palgrave's Interagency Working in Health and Social Care series, this book explores the policy and practice which frames work with disabled people.

The ever-popular "e;Whedonverse"e; television shows--Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and Dollhouse--have inspired hundreds of articles and dozens of books.

First published in 1981, this book was written to help parents and teachers to participate in child-based mobility programmes, covering the needs of visually-handicapped children from pre-school to adulthood.

Disability studies scholars and activists have long criticized and critiqued so-termed 'charitable' approaches to disability where the capitalization of individual disabled bodies to invoke pity are historically, socially, and politically circumscribed by paternalism.

Parties and celebrations can be highly challenging for children and teens on the autism spectrum and they can often feel reluctant to participate.

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans with all sorts of disabilities came to be labeled as "e;unproductive citizens.

"e;Cripples ain't supposed to be happy"e; sings Anita Hollander, balancing on her single leg and grinning broadly.

This book provides a valuable route map to the development of thinking in disability studies over the last eighteen years.

Disability and chronic illness represents a special kind of cultural diversity, the "e;other"e; to "e;normal"e; able-bodiedness.

"Barrierefrei gesund?

This book focuses on two areas of substantial and growing importance to the human development and capability approach: health and disability.

Many health and social care professionals today feel untrained, fearful and ill-equipped to support their disabled patients, clients and service users in their sexual lives.

Das Buch bietet gedankliche, emotionale sowie praktische Hilfe für Menschen, die erwachsene autistische trans* Personen in ihrer Transition begleiten sowie für Autist:innen, die sich transident wahrnehmen oder die ihre Geschlechtsidentität in Frage stellen.

Sozialraumorientierung - so lautet das neue Leitprinzip zur Verwirklichung von Inklusion und Teilhabe behinderter Menschen.

This book provides new period-appropriate concepts for understanding Romantic-era physical disability through function and aesthetics.

This book provides the reader with a ground-breaking understanding of disability and social movements.

If you work with older adults who are developmentally disabled and are seeking ways to incorporate exercise, arts activities, and other activities into your program, this is the book for you!

More than 1 billion people worldwide have a disability, and they are all affected by politics.

Bringing together international academics and professionals who are actively researching and working in the field, this pioneering scholarly volume covers the issues faced by individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder(ASD) in mid and later life.

In Crip Colony, Sony Coranez Bolton examines the racial politics of disability, mestizaje, and sexuality in the Philippines.

Disability and spirituality have traditionally been understood as two distinct spheres: disability is physical and thus belongs to health care professionals, while spirituality is religious and belongs to the church, synagogue, or mosque and their theologians, clergy, rabbis, and imams.

In this ground-breaking book, Jenny Slater uses the lens of 'the reasonable' to explore how normative understandings of youth, dis/ability and the intersecting identities of gender and sexuality impact upon the lives of young dis/abled people.

This book provides a valuable route map to the development of thinking in disability studies over the last eighteen years.

First published in 1972, A History of the Mental Health Services is a revised and abridged version of both Lunacy, Law and Conscience and Mental Health and Social Policy, rewriting the material from the end of the Second World War to the passing of the Mental Health Act 1959, and adding a new section which runs from 1959 to the Social Services Act 1970.

Revised to reflect radical changes in the field and their impact on professional practiceNow updated and substantially revised to reflect the CORE/CACREP merger and fundamental changes in the field, this comprehensive graduate-level second edition textbook articulates the complementary relationship between rehabilitation and mental health counseling and how it impacts professional practice.

Most people with Non-Verbal Learning Disorder (NLD) or Asperger Syndrome (AS) are underemployed.

Emerging disabilities are disabling conditions that are new to medical science, often medically debated, and lacking in known etiology; or those increasing in prevalence in recent years.

Cultural Heritage, Ageing, Disability, and Identity examines the effects of disability and ageing on engagement with cultural heritage and associated cultural identity formation processes.

In Brilliant Imperfection Eli Clare uses memoir, history, and critical analysis to explore cure-the deeply held belief that body-minds considered broken need to be fixed.

Este libro muestra cómo se configura el concepto de capital emocional desde las experiencias de padres y madres de niños y niñas con discapacidad.

This book sets out to understand how students with disabilities experience higher education and the transition to the workplace.

This handbook will raise awareness about the importance of health and well-being of people with disabilities in the context of the global development agenda: Leaving No-one Behind.

As genetic technologies advance, genetic testing may well offer the prospect of detecting the onset of future disabilities.

What barriers and traumas do students with disabilities, particularly those with visual impairments, experience in higher education settings?

Disability and New Media examines how digital design is triggering disability when it could be a solution.

Create campuses inclusive and supportive of disabled students, staff, and faculty Disability in Higher Education: A Social Justice Approach examines how disability is conceptualized in higher education and ways in which students, faculty, and staff with disabilities are viewed and served on college campuses.