One size fits all? The social construction of dis-employ-abled women

Vandekinderen, Caroline; Roets, Griet; Vandenbroeck, Michel; Vanderplasschen, Wouter; Hove, Geert Van

doi:10.1080/09687599.2012.673275

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“…The recovery paradigm can be sharply criticized because of the socially constructed norm of the self-managing, self-sufficient, and independent consumer-citizen who is fully responsible for his/her own choices [24]. A conceptualization of citizenship as normative implies that citizenship is perceived as a status and an achievement [46], mainly based on a norm of active and “good” citizenship that is imposed on individuals and persistently at work in both discourse and practice [23].…”

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Rediscovering Recovery: Reconceptualizing Underlying Assumptions of Citizenship and Interrelated Notions of Care and Support

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Roets

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The Scientific World Journal

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Over the last few decades, research, policy, and practice in the field of mental health care and a complementary variety of social work and social service delivery have internationally concentrated on recovery as a promising concept. In this paper, a conceptual distinction is made between an individual approach and a social approach to recovery, and underlying assumptions of citizenship and interrelated notions and features of care and support are identified. It is argued that the conditionality of the individual approach to recovery refers to a conceptualization of citizenship as normative, based on the existence of a norm that operates in every domain of our society. We argue that these assumptions place a burden of self-governance on citizens with mental health problems and risk producing people with mental health problems as nonrecyclable citizens. The social approach to recovery embraces a different conceptualization of citizenship as relational and inclusive and embodies the myriad ways in which the belonging of people with mental health problems can be constructed in practice. As such, we hope to enable social services and professionals in the field to balance their role in the provision of care and support to service users with mental health problems.

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Section: An Individual Approach To Recoverymentioning

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Rediscovering Recovery: Reconceptualizing Underlying Assumptions of Citizenship and Interrelated Notions of Care and Support

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Roets

Roose

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The Scientific World Journal

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“…This group is small, including only 4 of the 33 interviewees. As they are four men aged 31-46 years, this may confirm the gendered character of measures set up by DI (Vandekinderen et al 2012). Before coming into contact with DI, three had completed their upper secondary education (either vocational education and training or academic high school), and one had completed compulsory school.…”

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“…One group of studies examines the impact on recipients of the normative framework of new social policies in the field of disability. Norms of self-sufficiency, independence, employability and productivity in the labour market, in short the norms of abledness, are now embedded in policy measures (Chouinard and Crooks 2005;Lantz and Marston 2012;van Hal et al 2012;Vandekinderen et al 2012). Hence, acquiring qualifications is no longer the only goal of said measures.…”

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“…Yet these critiques also demonstrate a fundamental refusal when confronted with the injunction to internalise a 'motivated and involved stance' (Piecek et al 2017). This requirement is rejected even more strongly when DI shows little interest in a given recipient's desire to be involved in specific programmes, and when the standardisation of measuresthe 'one size fits all' cited by Vandekinderen et al (2012) leads them to see proposed programmes as inappropriate for them.…”

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The ‘compliant’, the ‘pacified’ and the ‘rebel’: experiences with Swiss disability insurance

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Disability & Society

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“…When stating "I cannot recover, never", Jimmy clearly demonstrated his awareness of his social position in life, anticipating the fact that he could never meet the socially constructed norm of the self-managing, self-sufficient and independent consumer-citizen who is fully responsible for his/her own choices (Vandekinderen, Roets, Vandenbroeck, Vanderplasschen & Van Hove, 2012). …”

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