Understanding Disability: A Guide for Health Professionals - Softcover

French MCSP DipTP BSc MSc(Psych) MSc(Soc) PhD, Sally; Swain BSc PGCE MSc PhDBSc (Hons) MSc PhD PGCE, John

9780443101397: Understanding Disability: A Guide for Health Professionals

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0443101396 ISBN 13: 9780443101397

Publisher: Churchill Livingstone, 2008

This book examines disability, in an accessible and interactive style, as it relates to healthcare policy and practice. It is aimed at physiotherapists and occupational therapists, both sutdents and practitioners, but will also be useful to all healthcare workers, including nurses, doctors and speech and language therapists.

Based on the social rather than the medical model of disability
Views disability in terms of environmental, structural and attitudinal barriers which deny disabled people full participation in society
Engages health professionals in critical reflection on the provision of services to disabled people
Case studies and activities throughout facilitate understanding of issues presented

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About the Author:

Sally French is an associate lecturer at the Open University.

John Swain is Professor of Disability and Inclusion at Northumbria University.

Review:

"I recommend it to all occupational therapists"
Rose Gollop,British Journal of Occupational Therapy September 2008 71(9)

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