Disability: An Interactive Person-Environment Social Creation

Social network and mobility improvement among older Europeans: the ambiguous role of family ties

“…A second relevant component of the model is its emphasis on participation rather than handicap (Altman 2001). Emphasizing participation and activity over handicap introduces more neutral discussions about disability (Fougeyrollas and Beauregard 2001). In addition, it highlights the potential for a positive influence of contextual factors on disability outcomes resulting from increased participation.…”

Work Reintegration and Cardiovascular Disease: Medical and Rehabilitation Influences

“…Through a person/environment fit lens [19], medical/ rehabilitation and occupational health services occupy different locations and modes of influence on workers traversing the disability threshold. Medical and rehabilitation services had their primary influence on worker beliefs about their body, illness and personal control.…”

“…Person-environment fit models of disability emphasize the interaction of the individual with their context in determining disability and adjustment outcomes [19]. Individual physical and psychological factors interact with the work and workplace factors (relationships, policies and procedures), compensation and insurance system factors (including direct relationships with agents), and healthcare system factors (including professionals and programs) to produce disability [20].…”

Postmodern synergistic knowledge creation: extending the boundaries of disability studies

“…Knowledge of, and about, disabled people, within and outside of educational settings traditionally relies on two competing discourses: the medical and the social models of disability (see, for example, Tregaskis, 2002;Shakespeare, 2006;Oliver, 1998;Barnes, 2002;Fougeyrollas and Beauregard, 2001). The medical model, as a pathologising gaze, understands human beings in relation to a normalised view of ability -an ideal typewhich in turn regards those with impaired ability as abnormal, burdened with difficulties resulting from organic dysfunction requiring expert help in order to ameliorate undesirable effects (Finkelstein, 1998;Devliger, 2005).…”

“…The medical model, as a pathologising gaze, understands human beings in relation to a normalised view of ability -an ideal typewhich in turn regards those with impaired ability as abnormal, burdened with difficulties resulting from organic dysfunction requiring expert help in order to ameliorate undesirable effects (Finkelstein, 1998;Devliger, 2005). In contrast, the UK disability lobby has argued for a social model understanding which reconceptualises disability and sees it as a product of structural and environmental inequities and not simply an attribute of individual impairment (see, for example, Finkelstein, 1998;Oliver, 1990;Barnes, 2003;Tregaskis, 2004;Fougeyrollas and Beauregard, 2001). Such a model argues for a case of accessibility, requiring the removal of environmental 'barriers' to educational (and other) opportunities which in turn diminishes the debilitating effects of society.…”