I am pleased to announce that Valor Press is publishing A revised and expanded edition of Wolf Wolfensberger’s classic work The Limitations of the Law In Human Services. It will be available this March at the very… Read More »Announcing a new, revised publication of ‘The Limitations of the Law In Human Services’
One of the things I learned from Wolf Wolfensberger was the power of writing in relation to leadership development, social and societal change, and human service broadly. Even a quick Internet search finds great emphasis… Read More »Writing in human services
Jack Yates recently shared with me an article entitled the ‘Architecture of Insanity: Boston Government Service Center’ by Michelle Koh and Gwen Lee. Located in Massachusetts (US), the Government Service Center has two parts, one of… Read More »‘Architecture of Insanity’
In leadership oriented introductory Social Role Valorization workshops, as originally developed by Wolf Wolfensberger, we cover the following five interrelated parts: 1. Introductory orientation, including a preliminary sketch of SRV and some key concepts 2.… Read More »SRV training: key parts
This essay from the NY Times Sunday Review describes a study which pointed out one of the involuntary physiological reactions we have to being rejected, excluded, cast into societally devalued roles (such as ‘other’): namely,… Read More »Physiological reactions to the wounds of rejection, distantiation
Disabled Children are More Likely to be Abused: Report Why are children with disabilities more likely to be abused than children without disabilities? According to the above article, disabled children in Australia experience abuse at… Read More »SRV in the News – Disabled Children are More Likely to be Abused