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recent news item relevant to imagery
This recent news item has some relevance to what Social Role Valorization (SRV) teaches about the goal and means of image enhancement: to help vulnerable and societally devalued people to have societally valued roles, and thus to open the door to having the ‘good things of life’ which most people in a society want and […]
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article: “The Talking Cure”
This New Yorker article is interesting to read and analyze carefully from an SRV perspective, including in terms of: • the developmental model • the pedagogic power of imitation • model coherency (assumptions of the model, who are the people being served and what are their pressing needs, who are the servers, what methods are […]
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Washington Post article: ‘In transition to independent living, the ‘dignity of risk’ for the mentally ill’
A sadly revealing article about the societal devaluation and wounding which too often surrounds mental disorder and poverty. Note the use of ‘dignity of risk’ language, though it hardly seems to reflect what Perske meant, nor how it is described in Social Role Valorization. Marc Tumeinski Tweet
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NY Times article: To Siri With Love: How One Boy With Autism Became BFF With Apple’s Siri
This recent article in the NY Times would make a good basis for a Social Role Valorization-based exercise or discussion, in an agency, study group or university class. It would require thinking about multiple elements–first individually, and then collectively. This is one of the strengths of SRV and PASSING: that it teaches people how to think […]
In: Uncategorized · Tagged with: competency enhancement, family, image enhancement, PASSING, Social Role Valorization, SRV, Wolf Wolfensberger
‘A Damaging Distance’
The NY Times article entitled ‘A Damaging Distance: For Israelis and Palestinians, Separation is Dehumanizing’ bears relevance to the SRV theme of interpersonal identification (Wolfensberger, A Brief Introduction to Social Role Valorization, 1998, pp. 118-120). Some of the facilitators of identification include positive contact between people, and helping people to experience the world the way another person does. […]
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‘Teddy the guardian’
An interesting example of paying attention to imagery (personal appearance and possessions), and to what is normative and valued in a culture for a specific age group (children, in this case), among other things. http://teddytheguardian.com/ This helps to communicate the role of cute kid, as opposed to the patient role. Relevant to imagery and the […]
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recent blog post: “GPS – the debate on tracking equipment for people with dementia”
Read the following blog post and consider what an Social Role Valorization perspective (valued social roles, image and competency enhancement, culturally valued analog, heightened vulnerability, greater access to the good things of life, etc.) would add. http://dementiachallengers.wordpress.com/2013/09/15/gps-the-debate-on-tracking-equipment-for-people-with-dementia/ Tweet
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first welcome video for the 2015 SRV conference
Please check out and share our first welcome message for the 2015 International Social Role Valorization conference being held in Providence, Rhode Island in the US. More messages to come! Tweet
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SRV on the Brockville & District Association website
Read about why this Association for Community Involvement adopted Social Role Valorization as its guiding framework. Marc Tumeinski Tweet
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update on the 1999 Institute of Medicine report
In 1999, the US Institute of Medicine published a report concerning dangers to all patients in hospitals. From the report: At least 44,000 people, and perhaps as many as 98,000 people, die in hospitals each year as a result of medical errors that could have been prevented, according to estimates from two major studies. Online […]
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