Renee M. Rawcliffe, LMSW
Director of Continuing Education and Professional Development
Regina Schaefer
Moving from Disability-Inclusion Focus Toward Disability-Affirming Practice
Adelphi University School of Social Work is recognized by the New York State Education Department as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-032, licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0068, licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0038, licensed psychologists #PSY-0081,and licensed creative arts therapists, #CAT-0032. Adelphi University School of Social Work is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The School of Social Work maintains responsibility for the program and its contents. This training is provided under New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) Education and Training Provider Certification Number. Training under a New York State OASAS Provider Certification is acceptable for meeting all or part of the CASAC/CPP/CPS education and training requirements. Adelphi University School of Social Work: Continuing Education and Professional Development, #1786, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Adelphi University School of Social Work: Continuing Education and Professional Development maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/03/2023 – 03/03/2026. Social workers completing this course receive 2 continuing education credits.
Date of Completion
May 17, 2024
ADELPHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK:
OFFICE OF CONTINUING EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Credential/License Number:
Has successfully completed 2 Continuing Education & training clock hours
This program covered the difference between a focus on access and inclusion alone and the newer framework disability-affirming practice emerging from disability culture.
Instructor: Elspeth Slayter, MSW, MA, PhD
Location of course/educational activity: Online
Training method: Lecture, Live In-Person
Joanne Corbin
Dean
Moving from Disability-Inclusion Focus Toward Disability-Affirming Practice
Regina Schaefer
In this webinar on social work practice with the disability communities, we explore the difference between a focus on access and inclusion alone and the newer framework disability-affirming practice emerging from disability culture. As context for this work, we will examine four topic areas. First, we will review the social construction of disability and impairment with a review of the medical and social models of disability as well as the personal tragedy theory of disability. Second, we will review the literature on the importance of positive disability identity development and its connection to disability culture. Third, to build our disability lenses, we will learn about the mechanisms of disability oppression (i.e. ableism and sanism) and the response of the disability communities in the form of various resistance movements. Fourth, we will review of various key topics in current U.S. disability culture that are relevant to social work practice. In order to translate this material into practice, we will consider the guiding principles of disability-affirming social work practice along with steps social workers can take to implement this framework. A short case will be presented for discussion. Participants will also have a chance to explore their own able-bodied privilege as part of an interactive activity.
Skills / Knowledge
- Social Work
- disability
Issued on
May 17, 2024
Expires on
Does not expire