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Disability, Intimacy, and Sexual Health: A Social Work Perspective
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Please note that this is an external course. In order to complete this course, you must purchase and read Disability, Intimacy, and Sexual Health: A Social Work Perspective, by Kristen Faye Linton, Heidi Adams Rueda, and Lela Rankin Williams, then complete an exam.
Sexuality is a key aspect of human development and identity, yet people with disabilities frequently encounter social and political barriers to achieving healthy, autonomous intimate relationships. Society tends to associate disability with asexuality and often labels sexual behaviors among people with disabilities as problematic or deviant. Faced with these assumptions and resultant policies, how can social workers meet the needs of this diverse population across the life course.
In Disability, Intimacy, and Sexual Health: A Social Work Perspective, Linton, Adams Rueda, and Rankin Williams compile comprehensive research and candid interviews with social workers to explore the complicated intersection of disability and sexuality. The book begins by detailing historical violations of the sexual and reproductive rights of people with disabilities, including forced castration and sterilization. It then explores current issues of sexuality and disability throughout the life course, starting with childhood and adolescence. The authors examine the increased risk of abuse and victimization that people with disabilities face while in romantic or sexual relationships and provide practice recommendations to help combat factors that contribute to this vulnerability. Other milestones across the life course are also explored, such as pregnancy and parenting, marriage and cohabitation, and intimacy in older adulthood. Throughout the book, the authors examine the micro, meso, and macro systems that affect the lives and relationships of people with disabilities.
This book touches on psychiatric, intellectual, developmental, learning, neurological, and physical disabilities and gives voice to both practitioners and their clients. It is an unflinching look at the pressing challenges professionals can face while serving people with disabilities, essential for students, academics, policymakers, and practitioners in a variety of settings who wish to advocate for the full sexual citizenship of people with disabilities.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand definitions of disability as understood by social workers
- Understand the social model of disability as a critical lens to working with clients and within communities
- Identify current topics of sexuality and disability throughout the life course, particularly among people with disabilities
- Delineate issues commonly encountered in social work practice when working with people with disabilities
- Identify social and political barriers to achieving healthy, autonomous intimate relationships among people with disabilities
- Demonstrate an enhanced understanding of sexual health interventions for people with disabilities, including resources for parents/guardians, families, and teachers
- Demonstrate an enhanced ability to advocate across the ecosystem for effective sexual health and relationship services for people with disabilities
- Understand how everyone can play a role in creating safer living, learning, and working environments for those with disabilities
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