Group size matters
This 2014 op ed in the NY Times relates to the Social Role Valorization (SRV) theme of competency enhancement, in this case, as related to the role of student. It examines ways that group size… Read More »Group size matters
Role of server or friend?
One of the clarifications offered in introductory Social Role Valorization workshops and texts is the distinction between the role of server (whether paid or voluntary) and the valued social role of friend. Servers may indeed… Read More »Role of server or friend?
Franklin Armstrong in the Peanuts cartoon
The 5 April 2020 edition of the NY Times included an obituary notice for Harriet Glickman. From the article: “Ms. Glickman was a former schoolteacher in California when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.… Read More »Franklin Armstrong in the Peanuts cartoon
NY Times Magazine article ‘E-jail’ by Ava Kofman
A 3 July 2019 article in the NY Times Magazine entitled ‘Digital Jail: How Electronic Monitoring Drives Defendants Into Debt’ by Ava Kaufman compellingly illustrates the concepts of heightened vulnerability, and of non-programmatic factors, as… Read More »NY Times Magazine article ‘E-jail’ by Ava Kofman
‘Bedlam on the East River’
The NY Times published a book review of ‘Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad and Criminal in 19th Century New York’ by Stacy Horn. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/28/books/review/damnation-island-stacy-horn.html The review is worth reading and has lots of SRV lessons… Read More »‘Bedlam on the East River’
homelessness in Delhi
The following 18 January 2016 NY Times article entitled “Desperate for slumber in Delhi, homeless encounter a ‘sleep mafia’ ” would be worth studying from an SRV perspective. It describes the social devaluation, wounding and… Read More »homelessness in Delhi