Making Room At The Community Table: A Glimpse Of Social Role Valorization
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In this introductory conference recording, Elizabeth (Betsy) Neuville explains Social Role Valorization through familiar roles such as employee, artist and family member. She distinguishes the good things of life from the roles used to pursue them, then examines image, competence, social devaluation and participation with support.
Presenter credits: Elizabeth Neuville. Elizabeth is introduced as Betsy in the recording.
Certificate of Completion. This session does not offer BACB continuing education (CE) credit.
Introduced as executive director of Keystone Institute and Keystone Institute India, Betsy traces normalization and Social Role Valorization through Wolf Wolfensberger's work. An employee-role discussion links everyday roles to relationships, purpose and belonging; a firefighter example introduces image enhancement and competency enhancement.
The session examines stereotypes, rejection and segregation before turning to planning around roles rather than activities. Narrated examples include an artist, university graduate, percussionist, business co-owner and maid of honor. Betsy presents these ideas in terms of possibilities and probabilities, explicitly without guarantees.
What does this recording cover?
- Social Role Valorization and the good things of life
- Normalization and Wolf Wolfensberger's influence
- Image enhancement and competency enhancement
- Social devaluation, imagery and segregation
- Planning valued roles and participation with support
Recording context: The presenter describes this as an introductory taster of Social Role Valorization.
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