Please allow us a just few days and we can send you your copy; pandemic effect on supply has limited our stock of these titles, but the publishers and distributors will assist us in filling orders promptly. Appreciative Disability Studies offers a new way of viewing disability studies in terms of the resilience and resourcefulness of people with disabilities as they interact with their environment and with society. While providing a broad understanding of disability, the author, Dr. Mary Ann McColl, also attempts to go deep in certain areas by looking into attitudes towards people with disabilities. This book is organized into five main sections. Section 1 discusses what is meant by disability, by providing definitions, models and guidance for language referring to disability. This section examines demographics of disability in Canada and around the world, attitudes toward disability and how they can be improved. The next two sections look at how disability affects people in the major domains of life namely self-care, productivity and leisure. Section 2 explores definitions of self-care, types and prevalence of self-care disabilities, the idea of independence as well as subsets of self-care including spirituality, sexuality and healthcare. Section 3 describes productivity and leisure and the importance of each in having a meaningful life. Section 4 covers the origins of human rights, policy relating to human rights, current knowledge about the condition of living with a disability, how that knowledge was obtained and how it relates to the real issues experienced by those with a disability. Finally Section 5 brings together the key messages and themes from the preceding chapters such as how to think and talk about disability, how many people are affected by disability and who they are, barriers that currently exist and how we can work toward a future where everyone can enjoy a prosperous life. Self-care, productivity and leisure are three concepts studied based on the author’s background as an occupational therapist, which helps effectively categorize the challenges faced and strategies used by those living with disability in one form or another. The author aims to share not only the practical perspective of living with a disability but also the broader concerns of disability in society. Throughout the book, a simple yet effective framework – discover, dream, design, and deploy – is used to help summarize and apply the main takeaways from each chapter. This framework allows the readers to apply Appreciative Inquiry to imagine the world as it might be, one in which disabled people feel included in the mainstream. The author concludes the book on a personal note and encourages readers to reflexively consider how every aspect of our social world impacts people with all sorts of disabilities. Table of Contents: Section 1 What Do We Mean by Disability? Chapter 1 Introducing Appreciative Disability Studies Chapter 2 Thinking about disability: Models and definitions Chapter 3 Talking about disability Chapter 4 Demographics of disability Chapter 5 Attitudes toward disability Section 2 Disability and Self-Care Chapter 6 The depth and breadth of self-care Chapter 7 Demographics of self-care disability Chapter 8 Independence, autonomy, and capacity Chapter 9 Health care and health maintenance Chapter 10 Spirituality and disability Chapter 11 Sexuality and disability Section 3 Disability, Productivity, and Leisure Chapter 12 Disability and work Chapter 13 Disability and education Chapter 14 Disability and income Chapter 15 Disability and leisure Section 4 Disability in Society Chapter 16 Human rights and disability Chapter 17 Disability policy Chapter 18 Disability and research Section 5 Themes in Appreciative Disability Studies Glossary, References, and Index About the Author: Mary Ann McColl, PhD, MTS is Academic Lead at the Canadian Disability Policy Alliance, an association of academic, community and policy partners committed to understanding and enhancing disability policy in Canada. Dr. McColl is also Professor in the School of Rehabilitation Therapy in the Department of Public Health Sciences as well as Associate Director at the Centre for Health Services & Policy Research at Queen’s University. She received a Ph.D. in Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics from the University of Toronto in 1991, and a M.H.Sc. in Community Health and Epidemiology in 1983. She came to Queen’s in 1992, as Head of Occupational Therapy (1992 to 1998). Prior to that (1987 to 1992), she was Director of Research at Lyndhurst Spinal Cord Centre. From 1983 to 1992 she taught at the University of Toronto, Occupational Therapy Department. Her primary research interest is health services and policy for people with disabilities, community integration and social support for people with disabilities, and measurement issues in disability and rehabilitation. Dr. McColl is the author of several books on disability: Disability & social policy in Canada (2nd ed., 2006), Introduction to disability (1998), and her latest book, Appreciative Disability Studies. She has also authored several books in occupational therapy: the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (5th ed., 2014), Spirituality and occupational therapy (2nd ed., 2011), Theoretical basis of occupational therapy (3rd ed., 2015), Interventions, effects and outcomes in occupational therapy (2010), Emerging models of chronic disease management (2006), and Inter-professional primary health care (2009). |