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Dr. Smart's Book, Disability, Society, and the Individual
Dr. Smart's Book, Disability, Society, and the Individual,
2nd Edition, 2008
Dr. Julie Smart has puslished the second edition of her text, Disability,
Society, and the Individual. Many universities, including Cornell,
Penn State, Michigan State, and San Francisco State, use this
text in various curricula (i.e., Disability Services, Introduction to Disability,
Rehabilitation Counseling) to educate students about individuals who have
disibilities. The text has consistently
received
strong
reviews.
Please
see the reviews below, including an excerpt from Dr. Tyra N. Turner's review
in the Journal
of Rehabilitation.
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.
Tyra N. Turner, Rh.D., CRC, LAC
University of Arkansas
One of the challenges an individual encounters in reviewing any textbook
is to comprehensively and yet succinctly provide the reader with a "preview" of
an upcoming attraction. Disability, Society, and the Individual is an attraction
that will prove to be a valuable resource for use by rehabilitation counselor
educators and educators in the allied health profession. The author provides
a very practical yet comprehensive approach to understanding the disability
experience. The reviewer was particularly impressed by the utility of the
book for rehabilitation counselor educators. It contains structured exercises
and discussion questions, and supplemental resources that can be used in
a variety of courses.
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