Despite sustained efforts among critically informed scholars to integrate thinking from disability studies into psychology, the psy disciplines continue to largely neglect the lived experience of disabled people and overlook disability as a form of social inequity and valued culture. In this article, I make a renewed case for integrating thinking from disability studies into psy, in particular within the psychotherapy professions and in the case of 'energy limiting conditions', a grass-roots concept that includes clinically and socially marginalised chronic illness such as Long COVID. Drawing on my experience as a disabled practitioner, and situating this within extant literature on disability and psy, I take an autoethnographic approach to exploring opportunities and challenges in bridging the interdisciplinary divide. I argue that unacknowledged institutional ableism within psy reproduces and is reinforced by physical and attitudinal barriers for disabled practitioners and service users, engendering under-representation of disability in psychotherapy professions and lacunae in disability-affirmative conceptual resources. Additionally, I propose that hermeneutical lacunae are bolstered by documented defensive clinical practices pertaining to disability. After discussing a wealth of opportunities for integration offered by disability studies, and noting the institutional failure within psy to embrace disability-related demographic and epistemic diversity, I question whether ongoing epistemic and social exclusions within the psy disciplines constitute a case of 'willful epistemic ableism'. Drawing on theorising vis-à-vis epistemic injustice and epistemologies of ignorance, I signal a form of systematic, actively maintained and structurally incentivised (motivated) non-knowing that results in collective failure among dominant groups to recognise established hermeneutical resources of the disabled community and allies. I conclude with suggestions of how this form of epistemic injustice might be mitigated.
Download full-text PDF |
Source |
---|---|
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2023-012877 | DOI Listing |
Front Psychol
December 2024
Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Introduction: When a child has a disability, their families face significant challenges that also impact parents' and siblings' mental health and adjustment. We examined the potential bidirectional relationships between parental mental health and sibling mental health and adjustment in families of children with a disability.
Methods: We utilized baseline and 12-month follow-up data from a randomized controlled trial of a brief intervention designed to enhance parent-sibling communication in families of children with a disability.
Int J Dev Disabil
June 2024
Educational Studies Department, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt.
Egypt has recently undergone significant educational reforms, granting children with disabilities the right to inclusive education and well-being as stipulated in the Arab Republic of Egypt's Constitution and Ministerial Degrees. This qualitative study aimed to capture the current situation of inclusion in Egypt's educational landscape and gather insights from school leaders ( = 2) and parents ( = 4) regarding the services provided to children with intellectual disabilities (ID) in two international schools in Egypt. Through semi-structured interviews, this study aimed to assess recent changes and efforts made in education reform to support inclusive practices for ID in international schools in Egypt.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFront Pediatr
December 2024
Department of Midwifery, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Adigrat University, Adigrat, Ethiopia.
Background: Low birth weight is a key determinant of child survival, significantly influencing rates of infant and childhood mortality, morbidity, and disability. While some studies have been conducted in our region, there is still a gap in evidence regarding the maternal characteristics associated with low birth weight. Hence, this study aimed to determine the proportion of newborns with low birth weight and determinant factors, particularly focusing on maternal characteristics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Clin Oncol
January 2025
Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Fukuoka University Faculty of Medicine, 7-45-1 Nanakuma, Jonan-Ku, Fukuoka, 814-0180, Japan.
Introduction: Population aging and increased cancer incidence have made the treatment of cancer in older individuals an increasingly important issue. Geriatric 8 (G8) is a screening tool developed to identify patients who would benefit most from a comprehensive geriatric assessment (GA). Previous G8 studies have involved older patients, but the age-related significance and usefulness of G8 is unknown.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEnter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!