Disability Studies 2202A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ableism, Sick Role, Social Forces
1 Jul 2020
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Week 2 - models of disability: exam guide. Provides a basis for the government and society to meet needs. Helps to gain an understanding of the issues and gives perspective of those creating and applying the models. Provides a continuum of changing social attitudes to disability. What are the 11 models of disability that were mentioned in class: medical/deficit, rehabilitation, social, expert/professional, tragedy/charity, moral, empowering, rights-based, economic, biopsychosocial, continuum. Aims to cure and fix disease which is done by the professional. The person is perceived as having failed if they don"t overcome. Fails to consider the reality of permanent disabilities. Disability is not an attribute of the individual. It requires a social action or change, and collective responsibility. Society is the cause of the disability and requires the removal of barriers. Professionals follow a process of identifying the impairment and taking actions to improve the position of the impaired individual. It undermines their dignity by removing them from decision-making.
