Gail Eva is wondering how rehabilitation fits into the social model. I've
thought about this a lot and in my research considered rehabilitation to be
grounded in the medical model and thus a disjunction occurs when any
individual wants to straddle the two "paradigms". It makes
interdisciplinary teamwork difficult because some members are speeaking
different languages and are socialised into different understandings. Also
difficult for the person undergoing rehabilitation, if anyone cared to ask.
So I discussed it along these lines and saw it as a journey where the
affected person travels from a medical model intervention through to a
social and ultimately I found critical theory and emancipatory models to be
the most constructive in analysing services and processes and arguing for
interventions and support services in the community.
As my study was about people with acquired brain injury, the literature I
used was largely in this area but some may be useful??. Particularly
helpful I think are narrative accounts of people's experiences of
undergoing (surviving?) rehabilitation.
Hill, H. (1999). "Traumatic brain injury: the view from the inside." Brain
Injury 13(11): 839-844.
Condeluci, A. (1992). "Brain injury rehabilitation: the need to bridge
paradigms." Brain Injury 6(6): 543-551.
Munford, R. and M. Sullivan (1997). "Social theories of disability: the
insurrection of subjugated knowledges." Human Services: Towards Partnership
and Support. P. O'Brien and R. Murray. Palmerston North, The Dunmore Press:
17-33.
O'Brien, P. (1997). "Human Services: creating or alleviating disability?"
Human Services: Towards Partnership and Support. P. O'Brien and R. Murray.
Palmerston North, The Dunmore Press: 64-81.
Best wishes
Allison
Allison Rowlands
Department of Social Work
University of Newcastle 2308 Australia
Phone 61 2 49 21 5396 Fax 61 2 49 21 6995
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