SRV on the Brockville & District Association website
Read about why this Association for Community Involvement adopted Social Role Valorization as its guiding framework. Marc Tumeinski
Social Role Valorization
update on the 1999 Institute of Medicine report
In 1999, the US Institute of Medicine published a report concerning dangers to all patients in hospitals. From the report: At least 44,000 people, and perhaps as many as 98,000 people, die in hospitals each… Read More »update on the 1999 Institute of Medicine report
looking for brief videos to use in teaching about SRV
Based on my last blog post, and a question from a university professor about using videos, I am going to repost some of the videos which we have shared on this blog in the past… Read More »looking for brief videos to use in teaching about SRV
brief video on unconsciousness/selective awareness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fSoI_HksoU Think about the points made in this 4 minute video in terms of what Social Role Valorization (SRV) teaches about unconsciousness/lack of awareness about the social processes of devaluation. Can you make any points… Read More »brief video on unconsciousness/selective awareness
UK report: ‘Confidential Inquiry into premature deaths of people with learning disabilities’
One of the wounding experiences which can result from social and societal devaluation is that of deathmaking, a term coined by Dr. Wolfensberger to describe actions that hasten the death of societally devalued people (cf.… Read More »UK report: ‘Confidential Inquiry into premature deaths of people with learning disabilities’
article: Experiences of subculture within a prison community
This UK article looks at societal devaluation associated with prisons, particularly with prisoners with additional devaluing conditions (e.g., intellectual impairment.) From the article: • As part of my third-year learning disability branch placement in a British prison… Read More »article: Experiences of subculture within a prison community