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Models of Disability: Implications for the Counseling Profession
Author(s) -
Smart Julie F.,
Smart David W.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6678.2006.tb00377.x
Subject(s) - attribution , psychology , medical model of disability , process (computing) , medical education , applied psychology , social psychology , medicine , computer science , psychiatry , operating system
Because of the increasing number of people with disabilities, counselors of all specialties and theoretical orientations will be called on to provide services to clients with disabilities. The authors present a brief overview of 4 major models of disability to provide an introduction to the varying definitions and causal and responsibility attributions of disability. Viewing the client with a disability as an individual with multiple identities, roles, functions, and environments facilitates the counseling process.