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Social Role Valorisation and pom poms

Posted in disability, mental health, social issues, social work on March 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Today’s lecture in our social work theory module covered the topic of Social Role Valorisation.  Although not mentioned, a brief history of our treatment of disabled people within the UK, and compulsory sterilisation of women with physical or learning disabilities left my thoughts travelled in the direction of ante-natal testing and genetic screening  of embryos.  [...]

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