An interesting recent post by Jeff McNair at CalBaptist University touches on a common question raised during Social Role Valorization (SRV) workshops, about the nature of the role of friend versus the role of staff… Read More »‘almost friends’?!
“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?
This 2009 article entitled “Serious leisure and people with intellectual disabilities: Benefits and opportunities” in the journal Leisure Studies describes efforts to help impaired people participate in ‘serious’ leisure activities, meaning leisure activities that a person… Read More »Leisure roles
I don’t know anything about this agency but we ran across a newsletter for an organization called AmeriServe International, located in Iowa (US). The article on the front page discusses valued social roles, the ‘good… Read More »valued social roles referenced in an AmeriServe International newsletter
This newspaper article could be the basis for a useful exercise for an SRV workshop or in a college class. It touches on a class of societally devalued people and related service structures that will… Read More »Newspaper article: ‘Starting Life Over’
Some roles are function-contingent, in that they depend on someone being able to do something (e.g., like the worker role). Some roles are more ascribed, in that they are attributed to a person essentially without… Read More »Reflect on roles: ascribed and function-contingent