A column on psychotropic drugging and so-called ‘electroconvulsive therapy’ (ECT) was published in The Chronicle of Higher Education on 18 September 2011. The columnist challenges the high level of psychotropics given to young people in… Read More »online column: Are psychiatric medicines making us sicker
Recently, an article in the Toronto daily, the Globe and Mail caught my attention. “Reading, writing and retirement” reports on a program in a nursing home in British Columbia where a Kindergarten class takes place… Read More »SRV in the News: “Reading, Writing and Retirement”
The December 2011 issue of The SRV Journal is finished and in the process of being mailed/emailed. If you are not yet a subscriber, you can easily become one on our website. Keep an eye… Read More »December 2011 issue of The SRV Journal
Following my last post, on the theme of the heightened vulnerability of elderly persons, I return to the concept of heightened vulnerability as it is also a very real concern for intellectually disabled people, especially… Read More »SRV in the News: Heightened Vulnerability and Economic Hard-Ship
“The basic premise of SRV is that people are much more likely to experience the ‘good things in life’ (Wolfensberger, Thomas, & Caruso, 1996) if they hold valued social roles than if they do not.… Read More »What is Social Role Valorization about?
If you have not done so before or recently, I recommend accessing Robert Perske’s website. It contains many of his published and unpublished writings. Perske writes compellingly of the vulnerability of impaired people. His chapter… Read More »Robert Perske