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Social Work and Disability
Peter Simcock
Staffordshire University
Dr. Rhoda Castle
University of Derby
Why ‘Social Work & Disability’?
• The need for more literature linking social work & Disability Studies
• Implications for practice
Why ‘Social Work & Disability’?
• Students’ understanding
of models of disability
• Limitations of the care
management role
Personal motivations: Rhoda
• Inspiring practice
• Challenging the ‘us and them’ approach
• Welfare reform
• Reclaiming the social work role
Personal Motivations: Peter
• Practice Experience
• Sensory Impairment Interest
• Legislative Changes
Focus on physical & sensory impairment
• Should people be defined in terms of type of impairment?
• Variation in the barriers experienced
• Culture and the response of others
Social Work and Disability: Key Themes
Critique of social work by disabled people
justified; social workers must critically reflect on
this
Social work can and does promote disabled
people’s rights and securing of positive
outcomes
Social workers need to broaden remit beyond individual casework in
this setting
Focus on human rights
Full understanding of the barriers that disable
people with impairments
Partnership working with disabled people
and their organisations, as equal allies
PART ONE
Perspectives: Understanding
Disability
• Lived Experience of Impairment, Disability and Social Work
• Theories and Models of Disability
• Disability from a Lifecourse Perspective
• The Legal and Policy Perspective
PART TWO
Diversity, Inequality and Disability
• Inequality, Oppression and Disability
• Disability and Diversity
PART THREE
Disability and Social
Work Practice
• Communication and Engagement
• Working with Disabled Children
• Working with Disabled Adults
• Safeguarding, Social Work and Disability
• Collaborative Practice
I value social workers who recognise that my need for their involvement
is not always related to my physical impairments. And I value social workers who protect and promote my rights – not just my rights as a user of social work services, but
my fundamental human rights.
Helen Burrell
Book Available From:
• Polity Press • Amazon • University bookstores
• Sample copies &
order forms (20% discount) here today
Acknowledgements and ‘Thank you’
Polity Press: Jonathan Skerrett
Reviewers and Endorsers
Colleagues: Helen Burrell, Rachel
Good, Jess Wagner, Ian Lloyd
Colleagues from Practice: Sharon
Gayle & John Elson
Service users: in practice and in HEIs
Social work practitioners and
social work students
Family and Friends
Thank You for Listening
Peter Simcock
Dr. Rhoda Castle