The focus on law in context is to be greatly welcomed, especially in relation to a wider international framework... this book should be included on booklists for students in social work since it addresses disability and the law more widely than conventional legal texts and therefore fills an important gap in the literature.

- Social Work Education,

This book describes the law relating to the rights of people with disabilities as defined in international, European and UK law. However, it does much more than this. It sets these rights and laws in the context of a social model of disability, where the impairment becomes disabling as a result of the barriers in society which limit participation in day-to-day activities. These barriers can be physical, financial or attitudinal. This is linked with a rejection of the medical model, where the focus on the physical or intellectual limitations is believed to lie within the individual.

- Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists Bulletin,

I found this book to be impressive in its comprehensive coverage, in its ability to address very real and current issues and in the way that it is unafraid to address bad practice. I would thoroughly recommend this book to health and social work practitioners and to students.

- The British Journal of Developmental Disabilities,

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This book describes the law relating to the right of people with disabilities as defined in international, European and U.K. law. However it does much more than this. It sets these rights and laws in the context of a social model of disability, where impairment becomes disabling as a result of the barriers in society which limit participation in many day-to-day activities. The book is aimed at social and healthcare professionals and cites research throughout showing that many within this group still hold attitudes, which restrict rather than enable participation. It is interesting background reading and useful to have as a reference for times when we need access to information about our clients' rights.

- Bulletin,

This book sets out to assess the effect of law, legal process and third party professional intervention on the lives of people with disabilities. Stressing the crucial role played by disabled people themselves in fulfilling the promise of the worldwide rights movement, the volume stresses the extent to which law can assist in strengthening individual rights.

- ELPI,

This text takes a very comprehensive look at the relationship between legal "rights" and disability, and the effects of the law and the legal process on people with disabilities. As well as taking into account the role of people with disabilities themselves, rather than just the professionals and third parties involved in securing justice for disabled people, the various chapters in the book address a variety of key themes. These include: "working in partnership" with disabled people, and the interventions care and other agencies engage in; changing attitudes towards disability; specific areas of "rights" to community care, housing employment, education, and special services in response to needs; mental health law; and the research into law, practice, and reform programmes.

- Welfare Benefits,

This comprehensive volume assesses the relationship between legal rights and disability and the effect of law, legal process and third party professional intervention on the lives of people with disabilities. Stressing the crucial role played by disabled people themselves in fulfilling the promise of the worldwide rights movement, the chapters examine this relationship across a variety of themes, stressing the legal elements of each issue, and the extent to which law can assist in strengthening individual rights in that area. The contributors, who are all either academics or other professional experts in their field, write in a jargon free accessible style. The volume will be of interest to lawyers, human rights activists, health care professionals and to disabled people generally.The main areas covered in the volume are:* new perspectives on working in partnership with disabled people;* the changing attitudes to the rights of people with disabilities across the globe;* improvements to the rights of disabled people through legal process, using national and international law;* an examination of the rights and entitlement of disabled people to community care, housing, employment, education, and special services for children;* disabled people and mental health law;* messages from disability research for law, practice and reform implications for research.
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This comprehensive volume assesses the relationship between legal rights and disability and the effect of law, legal process and third party professional intervention on the lives of people with disabilities. The contributors, who are all either academics or other professional experts in their field, write in a jargon free accessible style.
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Preface, Jeremy Cooper. 1. Working in Partnership with Disabled People: New Perspectives for Professionals Within the Social Model of Disability, Clare Picking, Occupational Therapist, Southampton. 2. Changing Attitutdes to the Rights of People with Disabilities in Europe, Lisa Waddington, Lecturer in European Law, Maastricht University. 3. Improving the Civil Rights of People with Disabilities through International Law, Jeremy Cooper. 4. Improving the Civil Rights of People with Disabilities through Domestic Law: A Global Overview, Jeremy Cooper. 5. The Legal Regulation of the Powers and Duties of Local Authorities with Regard to Disabled People, Belinda Schwehr, Solicitor and Law Lecturer, Surrey. 6. The Disability Discrimination Act: An Overview, Catherine Casserley, Legal Officer, Royal National Institute for the Blind. 7. Disability, Housing and Homelessness, Mary Holmes, Principal Lecturer. School of Law, Kingston University. 8. Disability and Mental Health Law, Kate Harrison, Solicitor, Former Legal Officer for MIND. 9. Disabled Children (Still) Invisible Under the Law, Mairian Corker, Senior Research Fellow in Deaf and Disability Studies, University of Central Lancashire, and John Davis, Edinburgh University. 10. Disabled Children and Social Care: Law and Practice, Suzy Braye, Reader in Social Work, Staffordshire University. 11. Clear Voices for Change: Messages from Disability Research for Law, Practice and Reform, Michael Preston-Shoot, Professor of Social Work and Social Care, Liverpool John Moores University. References. Index.
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The focus on law in context is to be greatly welcomed, especially in relation to a wider international framework... this book should be included on booklists for students in social work since it addresses disability and the law more widely than conventional legal texts and therefore fills an important gap in the literature.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781853028366
Publisert
2000-12-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Vekt
512 gr
Høyde
232 mm
Bredde
157 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
320

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The late Mairian Corker was a freelance researcher, writer and trainer on all issues affecting the lives of deaf and disabled people. She published widely in the areas of deaf education, psychology and support services and was Editor of Deafness and an honorary editor of Disability and Society. Mairian, who was deaf herself, was a trained counsellor who used a flexible, integrated approach. She was also a seminar leader on the Counselling Skills and Attitudes Course for Deaf Trainees at Westminster Pastoral Foundation in London.