Hi, everyone!
For the last three years, I've been teaching a 14-week, MA-level course in disability studies to students in a rehab. counseling program in the US. When my students graduate, they will be vocational rehab counselors, school guidance counselors, and substance abuse counselors. Because my background is eclectic (developmental psych, sociology, health psych and teacher ed.), my course covers:
history, ADA, analysis of autobiographies of PWDs, stigma/sick role/dr-patient relationships/normalcy/passing/marginality, stress&coping, identity formation, kids & families & schools, disability and the environment, models of rehab, and a few other topics. I should also mention that because of my own impairments, I use a very broad definition of disability.
I've recently been told that I will have to switch my course from a series of selected articles to a TEXTBOOK. The book currently under consideration is _Disability, Society, and the Individual_, by Julie Smart. There are parts that I like, but there are also parts which I find problematical. Does anyone have experience with this book? Am I finding it problematical because I like my course the way it is, or is it problematical? Lastly, does anyone have other suggestions for a textbook (I don't know if my students could handle Albrecht's _Handbook of Disability Studies_)?
Thanks! Nina Slota
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