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Dr. Smart's Book, Disability, Society, and the Individual
Dr. Smart's Book, Disability, Society, and the Individual
Dr. Julie Smart has authored a text entitled Disability,
Society, and the Individual. It is receiving
outstanding reviews, two of which are included
below. If
you are interested in purchasing this text, go
to PRO-ED at www.proedinc.com and click on
"Online Catalog" then do a search for
the book title, Disability, Society, and the
Individual.
Reviews
Irmo Marini, Ph.D.,
University of Texas-Pan American
Overall, I highly recommend this book for any graduate or undergraduate
course in the psychosocial aspect of disability. It is a
contemporary approach to the topic of disability from a social construct
view, full of psychosocial concepts related to disability, and is full of
additional resources including video references, Web sites, personal
account stories, and critical thinking activities. As a person with
a disability, I felt somewhat relieved to know that a text such as this
will be influencing the perspectives of many future non-disabled
rehabilitation counselors and the fact that hopefully the days of the
medial model and viewing the problem to be with the person with the
disability are, in fact, numbered.
Lance W. Carluccio, Ph.D., CRC
School of Health Professions: Rehabilitation Counseling Program
Maryville University of Saint Louis
This book is a must reading for all those interested in the field or
rehabilitation and in the profession of rehabilitation counseling. It
required the reader to examine self, the society in which we live, the
perspectives of the person with disability, and the experiences of the
individual with disability. The result of reading this book is the
shaping of attitudes that help us to understand the person with
disability. The book can serve as a valuable text providing an important
foundation for the developing professional. It could be one of the major
texts for a Foundations course or a Psychosocial Aspects of Disability
course. It should be one of the major texts for all programs in
rehabilitation counseling.
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