Understanding Disability

A Guide for Health Professionals

Sally French, John Swain (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2007
Churchill Livingstone (Verlag)
978-0-443-10139-7 (ISBN)

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Examines disability, as it relates to healthcare policy and practice. This book is suitable for physiotherapists and occupational therapists, both students and practitioners, as well as various healthcare workers, including nurses, doctors and speech and language therapists.

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 disabilityViews disability in terms of environmental, structural and attitudinal barriers which deny disabled people full participation in societyEngages health professionals in critical reflection on the provision of services to disabled peopleCase studies and activities throughout facilitate understanding of issues presented

Foreword by Frances Reynolds1. What is critical reflection? 2. What is disability? 3. How did we get here? 4. Servicing the body 5. Disabled people's experiences of health care 6. The experiences of disabled health and caring professionals 7. Controlling services 8. What is empowerment? 9. What is partnership? 10. How do services meet diverse needs? 11. How do professionals find out? 12. Reflecting back to reflect forwardReferences Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.12.2007
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	234 x 156 mm
Gewicht	467 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Ergotherapie
ISBN-10	0-443-10139-6 / 0443101396
ISBN-13	978-0-443-10139-7 / 9780443101397
Zustand	Neuware