Disability as Disjuncture: A Theory to Guide Social Work Practice

2016

Elizabeth DePoy
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The medical model located disability with the body as a deficit in need of repair, revision, or ongoing professional scrutiny. In opposition is the social model, which holds negative stereotyping and oppression as disabling facgors, thereby creating a binary debate on cause and appropriate response to disability. We suggest this binary is not useful in guiding social work to consider disability as a complex phenomenon, which requires multifaceted action responses. We propose an interactive model of disability as disjuncture. We illustrate the potency of this framework and its guiding properties for progressive social work disability practice

determinants, attitude, practices, child marriage, rural

Peer-reviewed publications in scholarly journals Published/In Press

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