Malcomson, T. (2011). Review of the DVD set A history of human services, universal lessons and future implications: A two-day lecture by Wolf Wolfensberger & Susan Thomas: DVD Set by the Minnesota Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities, Keystone Institute & Millersville University; Neuville, Thomas (Executive Producer). The SRV Journal, 6(2), 47–51.
Review of the DVD set ‘A history of human services, universal lessons and future implications: A two-day lecture by Wolf Wolfensberger and Susan Thomas’: DVD Set by the Minnesota Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities, Keystone Institute and Millersville University; Neuville, Thomas (Executive Producer). Review by Thomas Malcomson
January 6, 2012
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December 2011 article abstracts | Tagged: deinstitutionalization, human service history, moral treatment, Normalization, Social Role Valorization, Wolf Wolfensberger | 
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‘A brief history of the evolution of normalization into Social Role Valorization, with emphasis on social roles’ by Wolf Wolfensberger
January 6, 2012Wolfensberger, W. (2011). A brief history of the evolution of normalization into Social Role Valorization, with emphasis on social roles. The SRV Journal, 6(1), 32–42.
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‘Intellectual disabilities and institutionalization in Nova Scotia’ by Rachel Barken
January 6, 2012Barken, R. (2010). Intellectual disabilities & institutionalization in Nova Scotia. The SRV Journal, 5(2), 26-33.
Despite broader trends toward deinstitutionalization, over seven hundred Nova Scotians with intellectual disabilities currently live in institutional settings. In response this paper examines the socio-cultural, political, and economic imperatives for the institutionalization and deinstitutionalization of people with intellectual disabilities. It provides a critique of institutional models in general, and of Nova Scotia’s current residential services policies. While community models of support present a promising alternative to institutionalization, this paper cautions that institutions are often re-created in community settings. This paper thus suggests that an institution is not simply defined by the number of residents, but by the characteristics of the environment that enable or restrict residents to enjoy the same freedoms and responsibilities that the majority of other people do in their own homes. This article is based on preliminary research conducted for an MA thesis in Sociology, in which I examine the reasons why Nova Scotians with intellectual disabilities continue to be institutionalized and the barriers that exist to embracing policies of deinstitutionalization in the province.
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