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100 1 $aGoodley, Dan,$d1972-
245 10 $aSelf-advocacy in the lives of people with learning difficulties : $bthe politics of resilience /$cDan Goodley.
260 $aBuckingham [England] ;$aPhiladelphia :$bOpen University Press,$c2000.
300 $axiv, 267 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
440 0 $aDisability, human rights, and society
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [236]-257) and index.
505 0 $aSelf-advocacy and people with learning difficulties -- The history of the self-advocacy movement -- Understanding the self-advocacy group -- Questions about self-advocacy: where does this leave us? -- The need for a contemporary appraisal -- Self-advocacy, impairment and the social model of disability -- 'The tragic person with disabilities': an individual model of disability -- 'The disabled self-advocate': the social model of disability -- Impairment difficulties: towards an 'inclusive' social model of disability -- An 'inclusive' social model of disability and an appraisal of self-advocacy -- Researching self-advocacy -- Storytelling the impact of self-advocacy -- The informants: 'top self-advocates' -- Reflections on the doing of life story research -- Analysis of life stories -- Self-advocacy groups in action -- The four groups -- Analysis of ethnography -- Living self-advocacy -- Five life stories of 'top self-advocates' -- Jack Downer: 'Ask self-advocates' -- Lloyd Page: 'Go for it' -- Joyce Kershaw: 'Raise your voice and not be frightened' -- Anya Souza: 'It's not Down's syndrome, it's up syndrome' -- Patrick Burke: 'It is true. I know it is' -- Learning from life stories -- Pre self-advocacy group days: the making of a self-advocate -- Being in self-advocacy groups: coming out as a self-advocate -- Learning from experience: expert advice on self-advocacy -- Reflections: life stories, the self-advocacy group and resilience -- Self-advocacy in action -- Inside self-advocacy groups: typologies and dynamics -- Introducing the appraisal -- Models of self-advocacy -- The Centre Group: service-based self-advocacy -- The Social Group: the merging of independence and professionalism -- The Advocacy-supported Group: divisional links -- The Independent Group: professional self-advocacy -- Conclusions: dynamics over typologies -- Across self-advocacy groups: support and models of disability -- The advisor role: interventions and discourses of disability -- Inclusive and exclusive support: individual and social models of intervention -- 'Advisor-centred' versus 'self-advocate-centred' interventions -- 'Deficit' versus 'capacity' interventions -- 'Talking over' versus 'talking with' -- 'Expertise' versus 'experience' -- 'Missing the point(s)' versus 'addressing the point(s)' -- Not just advising: self-advocates supporting one another -- Conclusion: conceptualizing support in practice -- Self-advocacy revisited -- Conclusions: the politics of resilience -- Making analytical connections -- Issues for the future -- Critical reflections on this study: theory, activism and commodities in disability research -- Introductory booklet for narrators -- Collaborative life story of Joyce Kershaw -- Introductory booklet for groups.
650 0 $aMentally ill$zGreat Britain$xPolitical activity.
650 0 $aDiscrimination against people with disabilities$zGreat Britain.
650 0 $aSelf-help groups$zGreat Britain.
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