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
Reference to social roles on a world history website. Note the links to SRV material under ‘Related resources.’
Social roles, valued and devalued, give one a place in society, whether a high or low place, valued status or devalued status (p. 39, A brief introduction to Social Role Valorization, Wolfensberger, Training Institute for… Read More »Reflect on roles: place in society
Jane Sherwin wrote this insightful article telling a story about her grandmother, and what a difference thinking about valued roles makes in terms of how we perceive others and what good things of life we… Read More »“Keeping Nan at the centre of her life”
Thanks to Bill Forman for bringing this article to my attention. This NY Times article would be a good basis for an instructive exercise on valued and devalued roles, imagery, language, competency or heightened vulnerability,… Read More »What about George?