HLSC 4808U Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Medical Model
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Disability models and attitudes among college students with and without disabilities. Students with disabilities held views that were more positive to those with disabilities compared to students who did not have disabilities: lower medical beliefs and higher social model beliefs than students without disabilities. Attitudes for college students regarding disabilities is important because those who have favourable attitudes towards it have increased support and engagement in advocacy for disability rights. Disability models give us a framework of the cause, nature, and treatment of disability: medical model most prevalent in western culture. It has been thought that individuals with disabilities have more insight to the social problems than individuals without disabilities. Key notes students with disabilities had more favourable outcomes: less medical model, more social model. Students without disabilities had less favourable outcomes: more medical model, less social model.
