Equality isn’t about being special. It’s about being ordinary. Physical disability whether congenital or acquired during phase of life demands time as a person loses independence, social image, relationships, pre-existing roles , loss of components of his/her identity. Combating with adjustment to these loses requires strong will power and so these people use their extra sense achieved during this phase to make a way for themselves and succeed. Livneh and Antonak (1997) define, “Psychosocial adaptation to chronic illness and disability as the final phase of an adaptation process during which the individual achieves a state of reintegration, positive striving to reach life goals, positive self-esteem and demonstrating positive attitudes toward …show more content…
He is known to be responsible for the origination of Modern Psychological School Of Thought known as “Individual Psychology”, which emphasized on veracity of Human Personality. .Alfred Adler’s individual psychology, focused more on environmental and societal factors to explain behavior (Frankl, 1997) In regard with physical disability, it focuses on Superiority, Inferiority, Compensation and lifestyle. “Striving for superiority” is fundamental of every individual’s life. In regard with physical disability, his assumption was that they strive harder to be superior when they become aware of life’s misfortune. Core idea in inferiority was “organ inferiority” which is inferiority in one region or organ due to developmental or genetic abnormality. This is debt of an organ which needs to be recovered for. Thus, they will compensate for the loss of function or abnormal or absence of organ by strengthening its weakness. These deformities were considered the principal causes of not so perfect …show more content…
Schilder’s Body Image Earlier Sir Henry Head gave the concept of “Postural Schema” of the body. However, Paul Schilder (1950), whose writings originally appeared in 1935 he elaborates the development and importance of body image understood within the structure of “Psychoanalytic Symbolism”. It is the perceived body image from spatial relationships of one’s own body by visual sensation. Distorted or disrupted body images are formed within physically disability individual’s mind. They get conscious about self-appearance since few appearances may attract sympathy and few may get disgust in response. Logotheraphy Dr. Viktor Emil Frankl (1905-1997), a Viennese psychiatrist and neurologist developed Logotheraphy. It is considered the "Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy" after Freud’s psychoanalysis and Adler’s individual
Giving people limitations in order to make everyone completely equal does not work out, and that is displayed in “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut. Making people handicapped until they’re at the same level as others is demoting them in a way that shouldn’t happen: “They weren’t really very good- no better than anybody else would have been, anyways” (Vonnegut). Since the ballerinas had handicaps to make them average, nobody knows what would classify as poor dancing versus extraordinary. Everyone has the same skill level and sets, but only because they are being weighed down. Additionally, equality is wonderful when it’s incorporated in the right ways.
Disability is an attitude, not an attribute. Once the world can come to see that, then these stereotypes will cease to exist and everyone will be able to accept each other for whom they truly are, for their true
Disabled People in the Victorian Era Societies have a strong tendency to group individuals into different “categories” based on their personal characteristics, thus determining several important aspects of their lives. When regarding the disabled people of nineteenth century Europe, this was absolutely true. Living as a disabled person in nineteenth century Europe brought on many difficult roadblocks, but also occasionally produced unique benefits. As a result of the different degrees and types of disabilities a person may have, those with them were each subject to distinctive factors, such as life in asylums or workhouses. Furthermore, as time progressed, they saw a change in the ways in which they were perceived and treated with the numerous
Case study – the disability rights movement: The ‘Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,’ adopted by the United Nations in 2006, and ratified in 2008, defines a person with disabilities as “those who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments which in interaction with various barriers may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others” (Un.org, 2018). This coalesces into the disability rights movement, an international social movement which endeavors to obtain equal rights and opportunities for the individuals living with disabilities, embodying disabilities of all kinds: physical disabilities, learning disabilities, visual disabilities and mental health disabilities. The movement’s focuses on overcoming the nature of the multifaceted barriers that exist, for instance, attitudinal, physical and social barriers in order to enable people with disabilities to conduct their everyday lives in the same manner that everyone else does (Cdc.gov, 2016).
Within Sheila Black’s Passing on my Disability is the opinion that a disadvantage, like having a disability, does not mean the withdrawal of a person from what would be considered an ordinary life. In the opening of Black’s essay, the author mainly focuses on laying down the foundational knowledge required to understand her story, including her family and her condition, X-linked hypophosphatemia (XLH) — a form of dwarfism — that debilitated herself and two of her children. During the most of the middle of her essay, Black proceeded to further elaborating on her and her children’s life. The author mentions many of their difficulties and pains, such as when Black writes on the difficulty of seeing her “loved one [with] that psychic pain” everyday
If someone is not handicapped it means that they are a perfect citizen, which means they have perfect intelligence, physique, and appearance. The government is the only group of people who aren’t equal to the others. If everyone is made the same is it really
Disability is vital part of the social construction aspect attracts attention. People talks about disability rights regularly, but still many people hold bias opinion about this group of people. The topics about the disability’s right and privilege is continuous during the history of social development. Although special privilege such as disability parking lot, disability passageway etc… built for the convenience nowadays. But when I reading the essay “The Social Construction of Disability”, it mentioned a lot of problem on build an equal social between the common people and the disabilities.
From a social model of view, impairment is the body, organ or function is missing or defective. However, disability refers to the lack of community awareness of the physical injury and concern affect they are in a disadvantageous position in society. This is excluded from the participation of mainstream activities. Obstacles to the medical model make the physical and mental disorders as a personal body or mental impairment lead to personal physical and mental function is limited, thereby creating restrictions on participation in social and productive activities.
Colm Henry - 14734981 This essay will explore how living with a chronic illness can alter a person’s experience of space and place. The essay will begin by defining chronic illness and will reference some common features that will determine what it is like to be chronically ill. The essay will then explore a sufferer’s experience of ‘place’ and ‘sense of place’ which in turn may lead to him/her feeling isolated within society. Moving on from this, the essay will explore some differences with regard to place and space in both children and in adults. That said, the essay will use a case study to increase the understanding of space and place, with regard to a man, in connection with a chronic illness known as Friedreich 's ataxia.
Individual psychology is also known as Adlerian therapy; it was developed by Alfred Adler. Adler was in a sense like Freud, he was far ahead of his time, and thus most modern therapies have used and incorporated some of his ideas into their therapies (Corey, 2009). Adler had the notion/belief that each individual had an innate need to strive for perfection; this tendency is seen as the most important motivator that influences human behaviour (Murdock, 2013). Human beings like other species cannot live alone in isolation nor can they exist without close contact with one another. Thus individuals depend on each other to survive; they make use of each other as critical resources (they provide support to one another) (Dreikurs, 2006).
26 million Americans have a disability. Yet we are still not accepting or aware of this large portion of our own people. The disabled should be accepted because they have had to face so many hardships like living with the knowledge of their past treatment, breaking the barriers of our society, and experiencing troubles that we may never truly know of. Throughout history the treatment of the handicapped community has been inhumane, discriminatory and torturous, and has only changed recently.
Reviewing Adler’s theory on self-training and over-compensation as a means to rise above one’s deficiencies was enlightening. Although everyone has the capabilities to arise above adversity, not everyone makes the conscious decision to do so. However the theory is achievable, we can only hope that this trait would be inherent in all
The two primary models of disability are the medical model and social model. Under the medical model of disability, the defect is viewed as a problem that belongs to the individual with the disability. It is not considered as an issue of concern to any other individual other than the disabled individual. A student who is unable to use the public lavatories is blamed for the disability and not because the lavatory is not equipped to serve them. The main disadvantage of this model is based on the fact that it believes that the difficulty that one faces when they are disabled should be borne by them alone and not another party.
MULTIMODE WHEELCHAIR WITH OBSTACLE DETECTION Ahlia Sultana Shaik, Anjana Subhash Menon, Binal Jayesh Tejani*, Mohammed Salih *email: be12022@waljat.net Abstract. The proposed idea of this paper is to design a cost effective motorized wheelchair which can help differently abled people. In this, an electric wheelchair is developed which can be controlled by finger gesture using flex sensors, or voice commands using an HM2007 speech recognition module.
Human rights are not awarded to a person through the government they are just a natural part of society. https://mycourses.utrgv.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-3165093-dt-content-rid-22548691_1/xid-22548691_1. This is the key catalysis in the movement to try to end disability discrimination. He all men and women are given the exact same human rights at birth then why do we treat disabled people differently. As a society we need to stand by what we believe is fair and make change to what is fair, not just stand around, and let these people be treated like