SWRK 1001H Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Mental Disorder, Deinstitutionalisation, Neoliberalism

• School: Trent University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SWRK 1001H
• Professor: Else Knudsen

Document Summary

Disa(cid:271)ility and so(cid:272)ial welfare: poli(cid:272)y goals and responses. Disability is essentially human bodies not doing what most human bodies do. The terms we use for disability (and therefore how we define disability), reflect what we assume about the people who are (cid:272)o(cid:374)sidered (cid:858)disa(cid:271)led(cid:859): How we respond to them, and how they respond back. The defi(cid:374)itio(cid:374) used (cid:449)ill also i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:449)hat (cid:449)e see as (cid:858)differe(cid:374)t (cid:271)odies(cid:859) a(cid:374)d ho(cid:449) the(cid:455) are e(cid:454)pressed i(cid:374) the world. What is disability? (why are there so many definitions?) Refers to bodies / brains that work in different ways than average. In regards to the senses, intellectually, cognitively, psychiatrically, in terms of mobility, etc. It may be permanent, acquired, transient, episodic, inconsistent, etc: a cognitive or physical impairment (a problem with a body, sets up a binary / an extreme, normal vs other (different / deviant / abnormal)