Lesson 8 - Disability Flashcards
What are the things that relate to disability and identity
(What do you talk about)
(Labelling
Negative stigma & stereotyping
Master status)
Learned helplessness
Social model of disability
Medical model of disability
What is the medical model of disability
Model used by medical professionals
Disabled people are victims of impairments
Only person affected is the disabled individual
Based on belief that disabled people are responsible of themself and they should make extra effort to not inconvenience anyone else
What is the social model of disability
People with disabilities find non-disabled people cannot look past their impairment during interactions
Label of disability becomes master status
What is a master status
Defining characteristic of the [disabled] person
Other labels less important
Lead to self-fulfilling prophecy
What is a self-fulfilling prophecy
Linked to learned helplessness
Internalise and believe in negative labels and live up to negative expectations by wider society
What is learned helplessness
Linked to self-fulfilling prophecy
Developing low self-esteem and low self-worth in response to negative labels of ‘dependent’
