Neoliberal Fragmentation's and Critical Work
What are growth areas for business development?
Neurological trauma and forensic care
Do people with a disability share personal and collective history of oppression, of being disabled by social attitudes, misconceptions, policies, and everyday practices?
Yes
What does "PLODOS" stand for?
"People living off disability oppression
Is there a lot of research concerning the amount of disabled occupational therapists?
True or false? Professional values in human service work include respecting the dignity and welfare of all people
True
What now appears to be the first duty of government?
The health of the market
Many disability scholars employ which model? The social model or medical model?
They employ a social model.
critical work within disability studies recognizes the concept of what as central?
"nothing about us without us"
Which view has traditional occupational therapy drawn on? Social or Medical?
Medical model
Why are values important to human service professionals?
Answers may vary.
Values, in general, are principals or standard of behavior we have learned from our culture, society, and family. Values in the human services career are essentials because those are the criteria that the human services professionals used to assist clients in making more productive choices.
Disengagement with health and social in the free market had led to what?
Rising health inequality
What does disability culture concern?
worldview, ways of understanding self, environment, and experience
Rise in which conditions is causing the government stress?
Diabetes, obesity, heart conditions and cancers
What does the term "Othering" refer to?
social process where members of a group are objectified and cast as subordinate, lesser.
List your ideas/opinions of 6 ethical principles related to this week topic.
Answers may vary
(service, social justice, dignity and worth of a person, importance of human relationships, integrity and competence)
What is occupational justice?
Emphasis in life quality, meaning and purpose through occupational science
Impairment simply means difference. When does this term becomes disabling?
When social norms, values, beliefs, and attitudes begin to exclude, oppress, and marginalize people with impairments.
In the UK, is social care regarded as a health cost?
No (local councils have that responsibility)
In occupational therapy, disability still tends to be seen as what?
individual deficit requiring remediation
What are some important skills needed by individuals who work in human service work?
Answers can vary.
Communication - in order to communicate with clients etc..
Utilitarian
What does a Deaf cultural group share in common with many other ethic groups?
They share a common linguistic form, based in varieties of sign language
(Deaf culture has unique values, beliefs, history, and norms, including particular forms of social etiquette, cultural pride, and political beliefs)
Where do the most meaningful critical practices within disability communities happen? Academia or activist spaces?
Activist spaces
In what ways can we ensure to reduce the underrepresentation of disabled occupational therapists?
Limit negative stereotypes and assumptions about the individuals limitations.
Do you think that personal values also play a role in professional values in human service work?
Yes - they are characteristics and behaviours that motivate us and guide our decisions.