Understanding the Experience of Disability - Perspectives From Social and Rehabilitation Psychology

People with disabilities are people first. However, because they represent a large and diverse group, understanding how they navigate their social worlds and construe their situations is essential for rehabilitation therapists, educators, policy makers, clinicians, students, and laypeople. This will be the first edited collection to cover classic, current, and nascent topics in the social psychology of disability in many years. The authors represent both establishedand new voices examining social psychological factors tied to the experience of disability. Researchers, clinicians, and educators can use or adapt chapter concepts for their respective professional venues.

List of contents

• Foreword


• Preface and Acknowledgements


• Chapter 1 - Social Psychological Perspectives on Disability


• Dana S. Dunn


• Established Areas of Inquiry


• Chapter 2 - Disability Stigma: Causes, Consequences, and Strategies for Change


• Katie Wang and Leslie Ashburn-Nardo


• Chapter 3 - Judging Disability: Some Biases Identified by Social Psychology and Rehabilitation Psychology


• Dana S. Dunn


• Chapter 4 - Disability's Incompetent-but-Warm Stereotype Guides Selective Empathy: Distinctive Cognitive, Emotional, and Neural Signatures


• Jennifer Wu and Susan T. Fiske


• Chapter 5 - Reducing Prejudice towards People with Disabilities


• Rana Yaghmaian, Kanako Iwanaga, Jia-Rung Wu, Xiangli Chen, Emre Umucu, Jing Tao, Hanoch Livneh, and Fong Chan


• Chapter 6 - Rehabilitation Psychology's Foundational Principles and Social Psychological Theory: Intersections and Applications in Global Health


• Jacob A. Bentley, Jamie L. Tingey, Jeremiah Lum, and Shuen-En Ho


• Chapter 7 - Social and Psychological Factors Affecting Coping with and Adjusting to Disability


• Alexandra M. Kriofske Mainella and Susan Miller Smedema


• Mainstream Topics


• Chapter 8 - Women with Disabilities: Maintaining Womanhood Amidst Social Challenges


• Angela Kuemmel, Caitiln P. Campbell, and Anthea Gray


• Chapter 9 - Culture, Race, and Disability


• Faye Z. Belgrave, Kelli W. Gary, and Khalilah R. Johnson


• Chapter 10 - Personality and Disability: A Scholarly Tapestry from Disparate Threads


• Timothy R. Elliott, Lauren L. Barron, Kaitlyn Stein, Erika Wright and Leslie Lowry


• Chapter 11 - Social Support, Chronic Illness, and Disability


• Julie Chronister


• Chapter 12 - Aging and Age-Related Disability


• Bruce Rybarczyk and Amy M. Garroway


• Emerging Issues


• Chapter 13 - Disability in the Workplace


• Shannon Cheng, Saaid A. Mendoza, Linnea Ng, Christy Nittrouer, and Mikki Hebl


• Chapter 14- Implicit Attitudes and Behavior toward People with Disabilities


• John F. Dovidio, Ava T. Casados, and Gina Roussos


• Chapter 15 - An Exploration of Disability Self-Categorization, Identity, and Pride


• Kathleen Bogart and Michelle R. Nario-Redmond


• Chapter 16 - Family, Parenting, and Disability


• Erin E. Andrews


• Chapter 17 - Disability and Positive Psychology


• Anne Arewasikporn, Ann M. Roepke, and Dawn M. Ehde


• Chapter 18 - A Social Psychology of Self-Determination and Disability


• Michael L. Wehmeyer


• Chapter 19 - Resilience and Disability: Intra-personal, Interpersonal, and Social Environment Factors


• Alexandra L. Terrill, Justin J. MacKenzie, Jackie Einerson, and Maija Reblin


• Issues of Injustice, Advocacy, and Social Policy


• Chapter 20 - Perceived Injustice and Disability


• Zina Trost, John A. Sturgeon, Casey Azuero, Kimberley Monden, and Whitney Scott


• Chapter 21 - Disability Advocacy for a New eEa: Leveraging Social Psychology and a Sociopolitical Approach to Change


• Thomas P. Dirth and Michelle R. Nario-Redmond


• Chapter 22 - Social Policy and Disability: Implications for Rehabilitation Psychology Practice, Research and Education


• Matthew C. Saleh, Susanne M. Bruyère, and Thomas P. Golden


• References


• Author and Subject Index

About the author

Dana S. Dunn, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Director of Academic Assessment at Moravian College. A social psychologist by training, his scholarship examines teaching, learning, and liberal education as well as the social psychology of disability. He received the Charles L. Brewer Award for Distinguished Teaching from the American Psychological Foundation in 2013. Dunn will serve as President of the American Psychological Association's Division 22 (Rehabilitation Psychology) in 2020.

Summary

Rehabilitation psychologists have long argued that situational constraints (e.g., missing ramps, lack of Braille signage, nondisabled peoples' attitudes) create greater social barriers and behavioral restrictions for people with disabilities (PWDs) than do the disabilities themselves. In other words, as social psychologist Kurt Lewin argued, situational factors, including the perceptions and actions of other people, often have greater impact on the experience of disability than do the personal qualities of PWDs themselves. Thus, the experience of disability is shaped by a variety of psychosocial forces and factors, some of which enhance while others hinder daily living. For adequate understanding and to plan constructive interventions, psychological science must attend to how the disabled person and the situation interact with one another. Understanding the Experience of Disability: Perspectives from Social and Rehabilitation Psychology is an edited book containing chapters written by social and rehabilitation psychologists who study how social psychological theory can inform our understanding of the experience of disability and rehabilitation. Chapters are arranged topically into four sections: Established areas of inquiry (e.g., stigma, social biases, stereotyping), mainstream topics (e.g., women, culture and race, aging), emerging issues (e.g., implicit attitudes, family and parenting issues, positive psychology), and issues of injustice, advocacy, and social policy (e.g., perceived injustice, disability advocacy, policy implications). Besides informing advanced undergraduate and graduate students and professional (researchers, practitioners) audiences, the book will help families and caregivers of PWDs, policy makers, and PWDs themselves, understand the social psychological processes linked to disability.

Additional text

Contributors to Understanding the Experience of Disability help us explore our own perceptions, with the goal of empowering disabled persons. Reconceptualizing the experience of disability through the lens of social psychology provides the reader with the opportunity to rethink their assumptions about living with disability. Mitigating biases is the work of all clinicians, researchers, scholars, and advocates. Dunn and colleagues provide much needed guidance.

Product details

• Authors: Dana S. (EDT) Dunn, Dana S. (Professor of Psychology Dunn
• Assisted by: Dana S. Dunn (Editor), Dunn Dana S. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780190848088
• ISBN: 978-0-19-084808-8
• No. of pages: 440
• Series: Academy of Rehabilitation Psychology Series; Academy of Rehabilitation Psychology Series; Academy of Rehabilitation Psyc
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Physiological Psychology, Psychotherapy, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology