BookErin E. Andrews, PsyD, ABPP.
Summary: "Disability as Diversity: Developing Cultural Competence is a comprehensive for professionals in clinical, scholarly, and research work around disability develop the knowledge, understanding, and skill to effectively and sensitively relate to disabled individuals and communities. This contemporary volume blends interdisciplinary discourse in disability in psychology, medicine, and disability studies toward advanced cultural competence with this diverse population. This volume underscores why health care providers must understand disability as a diverse cultural experience rather than an individual medical condition. This book provides information about how clinicians can build culturally competent relationships with disabled people, the largest minority group in the United States. Approximately 49.7 million people in the U.S. live with some type of chronic health condition or disability and are increasingly relevant as the U.S. population ages and a generation of military servicemembers return from war. The book helps health care professionals communicate respectfully to patients with disabilities and become responsive to the cultural needs of these diverse individuals and communities. This book illuminates ways that disability rights and social justice movements improve the lives of disabled people, not through medical advances, but through elimination of environmental and social barriers and through development of a collective disability identity. Practical strategies for enhancing cultural competence, and effectively offering assessment and intervention to disabled people are included. In addition to informing professional audiences in psychology, disability studies, rehabilitation, and allied fields, the book can help disabled laypersons, families, caregivers, policy makers, and students understand the importance of cultural competence for disability"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
History
Models of disability
Attitudes and ableism
Disability culture
Disability language
Disability identity development
Cultural competence
Providing culturally competent testing and assessment
Providing culturally competent intervention
Conducting culturally competent disability research.