I just received an update from John Armstrong concerning an SRV 10 Study Group in Australia, meeting in Melbourne (check out this post about the inaugural session of the study group). Please see below for details… Read More »guest post about a leadership development session in Australia
I have mentioned Dr. Jeff McNair of CalBaptist University in past posts (here and here). Jeff is the senior editor of the Journal of the Christian Institute on Disability (check this post about an article that… Read More »just arrived: vol 2 no 1 of the Journal of the Christian Institute on Disability
As mentioned in my last post, we are looking forward to our first annual SRV Journal online conference which will open in September. Why are we hosting this conference? We believe that Social Role Valorization… Read More »initial list of ideas and topics for the 1st annual SRV Journal online conference
I am just looking through a copy of the 4th edition of ‘A Brief Introduction to Social Role Valorization’ by Wolf Wolfensberger, which includes the text of the 3rd edition, plus two additional articles, a… Read More »4th edition of the SRV monograph
One of the major role domains described by Wolfensberger (SRV monograph, 3rd (rev) ed., p. 30) is that associated with one’s residence or domicile. One of the socially valued roles within this domain is that… Read More »Socially valued role of neighbor
I ran across two fairly recent articles (here and here) and reports (here and here) which speak to the human service use of restraints and the heightened vulnerability of societally devalued children and adults. Restraints can… Read More »The contemporary dangers of restraint use on societally devalued children and adults