Validating critical avoidance: Professional social work, mental health service users/survivors, and the academy
Abstract
Disability is a widespread phenomenon, indeed a potentially universal one as life expectancies rise. Within the academic world, it has relevance for all disciplines yet is often dismissed as a niche market or someone else’s domain. This collection explores how academic avoidance of disability studies and disability theory is indicative of social prejudice and highlights, conversely, how the academy can and does engage with disability studies.
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Document Type
Book Chapter
Date of Publication
2015
Location of the Work
Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Publisher
Routledge
School
School of Arts and Humanities
RAS ID
19992
Copyright
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Comments
Boxall, K., & Beresford, P. (2015). Validating critical avoidance: Professional social work, mental health service users/survivors, and the academy. In Bolt, D., & Penketh, C. (Eds.), Disability, avoidance and the academy (pp. 90-98). Oxfordshire, United Kingdom: Routledge.
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