Medical Model

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Medical Model

• person is problem
• problem in person
• label problem
• congregate
• treatment
• expert in control
• fix / heal the problem

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Disability A Historical Perspective
Age Theme Effect 300 400
Rising Christianity Spiritual Objects 1400
1600 Pauperism Menaco
Association Calvinism Lazy Not
deserving 1700 Formal Service
Institutionalization
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Disability A Historical Perspective
Age Theme Effect 1700-1800
Science Mechanization
Industrialization
Mechanization 1800-1900 Genetic Scare
Fault in bred 1930 Formal Government
Social Security 1960 Deinstitutionalization
Community Confusion
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Historic Perspective of Key Cultural Themes

• moral
• era / punishment
• from God
• economic
• era / productivity and value
• institutional
• era / formal exclusion

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Difference Model

• Look at difference
• Create sterotypes
• Segment / Off-set
• Avoid

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Exclusion
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Effects of Difference

• misunderstood
• not Welcomed
• banned
• banished
• isolated
• made dead

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It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a
hammer, to treat everything as if it were a
nail. A. Maslow
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Discovery consists of looking at the same thing
as everyone else and thinking something different
A. Szent-Gyorgyi
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Interdependence

• focus on capacities
• individualized
• person centered
• about relationships

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Interdependence

• attitudes problem
• problem in system
• choice
• control
• community
• goal relationships

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Community is a network of people who come
together for some common cause or celebration
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Similarity Model

• look at connectors
• suspend judgements
• find opportunities
• relationships

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In culture, values spread.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to
be and you help them to become what they are
capable of being Van Gothe
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I like the dreams of the future better than
the history of the past T. Jefferson
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Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a
matter of choice W. J. Bryan
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In a new sense all life is interrelated. All
persons are caught in an inescapable network of
mutuality, tied to a single garment of destiny.
Whatever affects one directly affects all
indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be,
and you can never be what you ought to be, until
I am what I ought to be. This is the
interrelated structure of reality. M. L..
King
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