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Intellectual Disability and Stigma: Stepping Out from the Margins
Katrina Scior (Ed.)
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Description for Intellectual Disability and Stigma: Stepping Out from the Margins
Hardback. Editor(s): Scior, Katrina; Werner, Shirli. Num Pages: 251 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, 1 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: JFFG; JFFJ; JMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 187 x 218 x 24. Weight in Grams: 444.
This book examines how intellectual disability is affected by stigma and how this stigma has developed. Around two per cent of the world's population have an intellectual disability but their low visibility in many places bears witness to their continuing exclusion from society. This prejudice has an impact on the family of those with an intellectual disability as well as the individual themselves and affects the well-being and life chances of all those involved. This book provides a framework for tackling intellectual disability stigma in institutional processes, media representations and other, less overt, settings. It also highlights the anti-stigma interventions ... Read more
This book examines how intellectual disability is affected by stigma and how this stigma has developed. Around two per cent of the world's population have an intellectual disability but their low visibility in many places bears witness to their continuing exclusion from society. This prejudice has an impact on the family of those with an intellectual disability as well as the individual themselves and affects the well-being and life chances of all those involved. This book provides a framework for tackling intellectual disability stigma in institutional processes, media representations and other, less overt, settings. It also highlights the anti-stigma interventions ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
443g
Number of Pages
230
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137524980
SKU
V9781137524980
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About Katrina Scior (Ed.)
Katrina Scior is Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at University College London, UK. She has published widely on stigma associated with intellectual disability, and is concerned with identifying effective interventions to tackle such stigma in diverse cultural and economic contexts. Shirli Werner is Senior Lecturer at the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, Hebrew ... Read more
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