This 2015 newspaper article is relevant to the process of societal devaluation and resultant wounding taught in leadership level Social Role Valorization workshops. The key focus of the title and article has to do with… Read More »Guardian article: ‘Secrecy surrounds Texas prisoner transfers in wake of rioting’
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’
One of the points made in the explanation of societal devaluation, in the SRV monograph authored by Wolfensberger (e.g., page 40 in the 4th expanded edition) and in SRV leadership level workshops, is that societal… Read More »book review: ‘No Place to Call Home: Inside the Real Lives of Gypsies and Travellers’
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
This essay from the NY Times Sunday Review describes a study which pointed out one of the involuntary physiological reactions we have to being rejected, excluded, cast into societally devalued roles (such as ‘other’): namely,… Read More »Physiological reactions to the wounds of rejection, distantiation
I’d like to extend a warm welcome to our newest readers from Millersville University, those students taking either Applied Foundations in Contemporary Special Education (undergraduate SPED237) or Psychology of Students with Disabilities (graduate SPED601). Some… Read More »welcome to Millersville University students!