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

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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Link to publisher version (DOI)

10.4324/9781315717807