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.

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.