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Leisure roles

This 2009 article entitled “Serious leisure and people with intellectual disabilities: Benefits and opportunities” in the journal Leisure Studies describes efforts to help impaired people participate in ‘serious’ leisure activities, meaning leisure activities that a person engages in fully and has done so successfully for a long time. The authors mention Nirje and Wolfensberger, Normalization and Social […]

September 2010 issue of CRUcial Times (Australia)

I recently received the September 2010 issue of CRUcial Times published by CRU Inc. in Brisbane, Australia. I recommend getting on their email list to receive this publication. Back issues are also available. Below are some of the SRV-related lessons I took away from just two of the articles in this issue: Leading the change […]

‘Bent, not broken’ article in NY Times

This NY Times article about a teacher has some good potential as a teaching exercise: in a workshop, staff meeting or university classroom. It can be used to raise questions and issues relevant to Social Role Valorization, such as: • What language is used to refer to the person who is the main subject of […]

Deinstitutionalization of People With Developmental Disabilities: A Review of the Literature

A good article for those teaching and implementing SRV, especially given the influence which SRV and normalization have had on deinstitutionalization efforts in North America: Deinstitutionalization of People With Developmental Disabilities: A Review of the Literature by Raymond A. Lemay CANADIAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH VOL. 28 NO. 1, SPRING 2009 (181-194) http://www.turningforward.org/documents/Lemay2009-Deinstitutionalization.pdf Major […]

NY Times article: ‘My Brother’s Keeper (Assembly Required)’

The NY Times ran a column on August 22 in an ongoing series of columns entitled ‘Modern Love.’ This particular column was by a sister describing her brother with Down’s syndrome. * Reflect on how her brother is described in the column. How is he described as spending his days? Think about what roles and […]

Training idea #1

The role communicators give us a good and practical tool to analyze, evaluate and plan for (valued) social roles. What are the role communicators? • physical setting • personal presentation and appearance • social juxtapositions, associations and groupings with other people • activities, schedules, routines, use of time, rhythms • language, program and agency logos […]

Reflect on roles: ascribed and function-contingent

Some roles are function-contingent, in that they depend on someone being able to do something (e.g., like the worker role). Some roles are more ascribed, in that they are attributed to a person essentially without having to do anything (e.g., many relationship roles) (p. 31, A brief introduction to Social Role Valorization, Wolfensberger, Training Institute […]

Social roles and suicide risk

“Occupations that offer strong social roles, such as teaching, appear to protect against suicide.” The above is a quote from an article sent to me by Ray Lemay. The article describes research on connections between employment roles, as well as unemployment, with suicide risk. This brief article raises questions of heightened vulnerability. The findings described […]

Dr. Elaine Smokewood

In Social Role Valorization (SRV), one of the points we make in teaching about social roles is that a valued role can be protective, even when someone ends up with a significant impairment after acquiring the role, and how important it is to shore up someone’s valued roles, particularly if they do become quite sick, […]

Reflect on roles: role domains

Thinking about our own roles can deepen our understanding of how to help socially devalued people to get and hold onto valued roles, and to help vulnerable people to keep and shore up their valued social roles. Social roles can be categorized into a number of role domains, such as relationship, work, education, leisure, community, […]

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