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July 2013 issue of The SRV Journal is at the printers
The July 2013 issue of The SRV Journal is currently at the printers. In the meanwhile, I can tell you about the content of the issue. We have a posthumous article by Wolf Wolfensberger on Citizen Advocacy and recruitment of proteges who are mentally disordered, or of proteges who have several societally devalued conditions. As […]
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initial list of ideas and topics for the 1st annual SRV Journal online conference
As mentioned in my last post, we are looking forward to our first annual SRV Journal online conference which will open in September. Why are we hosting this conference? We believe that Social Role Valorization (SRV), when well applied, has great potential to help societally devalued groups and individuals to gain greater access to the […]
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Announcing the 1st annual SRV Journal online conference
I am pleased to announce that we are going to run an SRV Journal ‘online conference’ starting in September 2013. The event will be entirely online and will be based on submitted papers (e.g., there will not be any recorded talks or presentations). The conference will essentially consist of reading others’ papers, as well as […]
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Titles from December 2012 SRV Journal added to our abstract site
Citation information from the December 2012 issue of The SRV Journal has been added to our abstract website. Check it out! Tweet
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June 2012 issue of The SRV Journal
The 2012 issue of The SRV Journal is now at the printers and will be mailed fairly soon. For those of you who are PDF subscribers, this will be emailed over the next week. If you are not yet a subscriber, it’s not too late! Check here. Below is the table of contents for this […]
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SRV Journal focus question: December 2010
The following focus question was published in the December 2010 issue of The SRV Journal. I look forward to your replies, thoughts, reflections and related questions: “From an SRV perspective, ‘integration’ means ‘personal social integration & valued social participation.’ This in turn would require (a) valued participation, (b) with valued people (c) in valued activities that […]
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SRV Journal focus question: June 2010
The following focus question was published in the June 2010 issue of The SRV Journal. I look forward to your replies, thoughts, reflections and related questions: One aspect of the SRV theme of interpersonal identification is that “if devalued people are to have a chance of receiving the good things in life from the rest of […]
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SRV Journal focus question: December 2009
The following focus question was published in the December 2009 issue of The SRV Journal. I look forward to your replies, thoughts, reflections and related questions: The primacy of autonomy, rights and ‘choice’ is a common mindset and ideology in contemporary human services. Compare and contrast this ideology of autonomy and ‘choice’ with the principles […]
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SRV Journal focus question from the June 2009 issue
In each issue of The SRV Journal, we publish a focus question, inviting our readers to individually and perhaps as part of a small study group to consider, reflect on and discuss the question. I have decided to start posting these questions just as they appeared in the Journal, starting with the first question published […]
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Social Role Valorization theme: model coherency (post #2 in a series)
This is the second in a series of posts concerning the Social Role Valorization theme of relevance, potency, and model coherency of measures and services (see the SRV monograph by Wolfensberger, 1998, 3rd. rev. ed. published in 2004, pp. 111-118). I briefly mentioned in the first post that Wolfensberger had described relevance, potency and model […]
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