Toward a holistic view of health and health promotion in social work with people with disabilities
- Authors
- Kim, K.M.; Canda, E.R.
- Issue Date
- 2006
- Keywords
- Disability; Health; Holistic; Social model
- Citation
- Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, v.5, no.2, pp.49 - 67
- Journal Title
- Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation
- Volume
- 5
- Number
- 2
- Start Page
- 49
- End Page
- 67
- URI
- http://scholarworks.bwise.kr/ssu/handle/2018.sw.ssu/19128
- DOI
- 10.1300/J198v05n02_04
- ISSN
- 1536-710X
- Abstract
- The individual medically oriented model of disability suggests that people with disabilities seldom achieve health and wellness because of their impairments and disabilities. This paper provides an alternative to the tendency in social work to focus on the medicalization of disability without a due consideration of the social context. It draws insights from the social model that asserts disability is a form of social restriction encountered by people with disabilities and that social barriers of disability must be removed through collective action. Also, this model posits that people with disabilities can be healthy if the barriers preventing good health are removed. However, medical aspects of a person with a disability should not be forsaken entirely. Therefore, this article proposes a holistic view that converges insights of the individual and social models toward a better understanding of health issues for people with disabilities. It shows the implications for social work that follow from the convergence. © 2006 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.
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