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Intellectual Disability in a Post-Neoliberal World

By Jennifer Clegg

Intellectual Disability in a Post-Neoliberal World

By Jennifer Clegg

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This book suggests and promotes new paradigms for intellectual disability. Challenging the predominant neoliberal agenda, it combines extensive clinical experience, conceptual analysis, and recent research. The authors explore the way that promotion of autonomy and choice overlooks the fundamentally relational needs of people with intellectual disabilities by examining four significant, repeating themes. What neoliberal policies are and how they suffocate innovation; the recurring scandals that characterise ID services in all cultures; the counter-intuitive belief that behavioural interventions can somehow address emotional distress; and fundamental tensions in the relationship between parents and services. Each chapter proposes alternative and hopeful ways to address the 40% of people with intellectual disabilities whose distress generates challenges for parents and staff. Written primarily for intellectual disability researchers, professionals, service managers, and policy-makers, this book constitutes a useful reading also for scholars in psychology, psychiatry and nursing, as well as specialist historians, geographers, sociologists, and social anthropologists engaged with intellectual disabilities.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
120
Release Date:
2025-05-18
Publication Date:
2025-05-18
Publisher:
Springer Nature Switzerland
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
303157947X
ISBN13:
9783031579479
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[email protected]
Weight:
167 g
Height:
148 cm
Width:
210 cm
Thickness:
7 cm
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