Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics - WINTER 2008-09, VOL. 5, #3

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WINTER 2008-09, VOL. 5, #3

Editorial Comment: Special Issue on Disabilities

Guest editor John C. Bricout, PhD, comments on this special issue on disabilities.
Last Updated ( Tuesday, 27 January 2009 )
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Ethical Considerations for Prenatal Screening and Genetic Testing

With the advancements made in medical technology, decisions that were once made with caution and information are now routinely handled in an automated fashion. When deconstructing the issues involved in prenatal genetic screening, we must ask, what are we screening for? This papers calls for social workers to play key roles as genetic counselors in health care settings.

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 27 January 2009 )

This article examines how the dilemma regarding using disability labels to help people with disabilities access services versus promoting consumer self-determination that includes rejecting labels gets played out in a practice situation through looking at a case study of youth with disabilities receiving services from a foster care transition program.

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 27 January 2009 )

Social Work Practice With Disability

In this article, we propose an alternative stance to the ways in which disability is theoretically and practically approached within the field of social work. We begin with a critical analysis of how contemporary views of disability and response praxis came to be. Building on history and current scholarship from humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, we then advance a progressive theoretical framework, explanatory legitimacy theory (DePoy & Gilson, 2004, 2007). Explanatory legitimacy theory locates disability within the broad context of human diversity, uncouples diversity and thus disability from the bodies and backgrounds mentality of current diversity thinking, and illuminates an alternative value and philosophical frame to inform and guide social workers concerned with furthering the profession’s mission of social and distributive justice for all people.

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 27 January 2009 )