In his June 2010 column SRV News & Reviews (in the SRV Journal), Dr. Wolfensberger writes: We suggest that readers give some thought to the difference between saying that somebody “has X” versus that somebody… Read More »Idea for an article, from Dr. Wolfensberger
From Values in Action Association in Australia, I just received the first issue of their newsletter ‘SRV in Action.’ It is 8 pages, with a nice clean design that is easy to read. It includes… Read More »‘SRV in Action’: a new newsletter from Values in Action Association Inc.
The Keystone Institute is the training arm of Keystone Services, a large human service agency headquartered in Pennsylvania. Since its inception in 1972, Keystone has been influenced by and supportive of Normalization and later Social… Read More »online resource: Keystone Institute
“Occupations that offer strong social roles, such as teaching, appear to protect against suicide.” The above is a quote from an article sent to me by Ray Lemay. The article describes research on connections between… Read More »Social roles and suicide risk
In Social Role Valorization (SRV), one of the points we make in teaching about social roles is that a valued role can be protective, even when someone ends up with a significant impairment after acquiring… Read More »Dr. Elaine Smokewood
Thinking about our own roles can deepen our understanding of how to help socially devalued people to get and hold onto valued roles, and to help vulnerable people to keep and shore up their valued… Read More »Reflect on roles: role domains