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It explains how Disability Studies shifts focus from individual limitations and medicalized disability toward societal oppression, barriers, and inclusion, while emphasizing diversity, dignity, and empowerment. 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Disability Studies encourages Social Work to move beyond person-in–the-environment and anti-oppressive approaches to find more effective ways of removing barriers for persons with disabilities, and new opportunities to include them in the larger culture. Discussing the critical nature of Disability Studies, the authors point out how Social Work is learning to embrace the interdisciplinary nature of Disability Studies.  \nIntroduction  \nTraditionally,  \ndergraduate  \nliberal arts have influenced uneducation. It is “designed to give  \nstudents foundational knowledge that equips them to make free, informed choices about themselves and the world in which they live” (Barker, 2003, p. 248). However, professional disciplines such as Social Work, although influenced by the liberal arts, have developed largely distinct, separate professional programs of study. Joy Mighty (2009) makes the point that enormous “social, political, economic, and environmental problems that face the global community demand remedies and solutions that exceed the capacity of any single discipline or specialization.”Citing Klein (1998), Mighty explains that interdisciplinary approaches transcend the limits of single  \ndisciplines to increase our capacity to understand and address problems that are too complex for one discipline.  \nThere is a high level of compatibility between the values and ethics of Social Work and Disability Studies. Both have a commitment to social advocacy, social change, and client empowerment. Both focus on strengths rather than pathology, and each one is committed to diversity and the elimination of oppression (Gilson & DePoy, 2002) . Both Social Work and Disability Studies promote respect for individuality, dignity, acceptance, self-determination, and empowerment.  \nSocial Work uses approaches to intervention with vulnerable populations, such as, the person-  \nin-environment, strengths, and anti-oppressive perspectives. The person-in-environment perspective“views the client as part ofan environmental system”(Barker, 2003, p. 322), taking into account social relationships and other influences. Saleebey (2006) articulated a strengths approach in which “the central dynamic of the strengths perspective is precisely the rousing of hope” (p. 8) that empowers people to address their own problems and to develop their own problem-solving skills to deal with adversity and stress. Anti-oppressive practice “focuses on both confronting and changing those social institutions, policies, laws, and economic and political systems that operate in a way that benefits the dominant group at the expense of subordinate groups” (Mullaly, 2002, p. 193) .  \nDisability Studies deconstructs medicalized disability, locating the problem of disability in society’s failure to provide for people with disabilities rather than individuals’ limitations (Oliver, 1990) . Disability Studies offers a social construct model and a diversity model in working with people with disabilities. The social construct model explores the nature of oppression and its meaning for the individual, helps people to see that oppression is socially grounded, and works to lessen the effects of oppression (Rothman, 2003). The disability discrimination model sees impairment associated with disability asthe result of discrimination, poverty, and marginalizing services, such as special education and group homes (May & Raske, 2005). The disability discrimination model uses a framework that includes a blend of the strengths perspective, empowerment, resiliency, and the medical model to support individual, relationship, and societal change.  \nLike Disability Studies, Social Work must find more","cbCaitrQ1rUTgcpQ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitrQ1rUTgcpQ","pdf",485704,"English","# Introduction\n# Historical Perspective of Social Work and Disability Studies","[{\"question\":\"What change does the paper recommend for Social Work education?\",\"answer\":\"It recommends that faculties of Social Work incorporate Disability Studies into their curriculum, using its interdisciplinary deconstructionist perspective.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Disability Studies reframe disability compared with medicalized views?\",\"answer\":\"Disability Studies deconstructs medicalized disability by locating the problem in society’s failure to provide rather than in individuals’ limitations.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the paper argue Social Work and Disability Studies are compatible?\",\"answer\":\"Both share commitments to social advocacy, social change, client empowerment, strengths-based support, diversity, and elimination of oppression.\"}]","Enriching Social Work Through Interdisciplinary Disability Studies | PDF",1792087289,18]