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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
July 30, 2004
Pages
141
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780789020932
ISBN-10
0789020939
Dimensions
0.50 by 6 by 8.50 in.
Weight
0.54 lbs.
Original list price
$65.95
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Learn how to include multiculturalism in disability-related social work!
International Perspectives on Disability Services: The Same but Different presents different cultural and societal contexts on services for people with disabilities. This book covers a range of topics on disabilities related to physical status, emotional conditions, and community settings. This useful introductory reference will help you develop culturally sensitive disability services both locally and overseas, and it will promote better understanding of people with disabilities.
This book is a unique examination of services for people with disabilities as they exist in several countries. Until recently, cultural context was used to describe race or ethnicity, but this innovative text recognizes people with disabilities as a worldwide community that is advocating for equality and respect. International Perspectives on Disability Services focuses on the need for human and social services that endorse capability and empowermentÂpromoting the person rather than the disability.
In International Perspectives on Disability Services, youâll learn about:
International Perspectives on Disability Services: The Same but Different presents different cultural and societal contexts on services for people with disabilities. This book covers a range of topics on disabilities related to physical status, emotional conditions, and community settings. This useful introductory reference will help you develop culturally sensitive disability services both locally and overseas, and it will promote better understanding of people with disabilities.
This book is a unique examination of services for people with disabilities as they exist in several countries. Until recently, cultural context was used to describe race or ethnicity, but this innovative text recognizes people with disabilities as a worldwide community that is advocating for equality and respect. International Perspectives on Disability Services focuses on the need for human and social services that endorse capability and empowermentÂpromoting the person rather than the disability.
In International Perspectives on Disability Services, youâll learn about:
- using the term Âculture to describe the community of people with disabilitiesÂhow cultural sensitivity and competency can be applied to the disability culture
- the dynamics of a transcultural relationship between psychotherapist and deaf or hard-of-hearing individuals
- the recent development in aphasia treatmentÂLife Participation Approach to Aphasia (LPAA)Âand the international perspective of communication therapy
- a comparison of attitudes among social work students in the United States and Japan toward people with disabilitiesÂpeople with disabilities are not yet integrated into Japanese society, but both groups showed room for needed improvement
- a comparison of disability-related services and experiences in the United States and in GermanyÂchild-raising leave, child-raising money, and Kindergeld (child money) helps support parents financially for the first few years, but the United States has more options for integrated schooling later in life
- Hong Kongâs 25-year-old objective to encourage community integration and normalization for people with disabilities to live in the community
- the primary support network of family, community leaders, and shaman for people with disabilities among Hmong Americans in Northern California
Editions
Hardcover
from Routledge (July 30, 2004)
9780789020925 | details & prices | 141 pages | 6.25 × 8.50 × 0.50 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $200.00
About: Learn how to include multiculturalism in disability-related social work!
About: Learn how to include multiculturalism in disability-related social work!
Paperback
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from Routledge (July 30, 2004)
9780789020932 | details & prices | 141 pages | 6.00 × 8.50 × 0.50 in. | 0.54 lbs | List price $65.95
About: Learn how to include multiculturalism in disability-related social work!
About: Learn how to include multiculturalism in disability-related social work!
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