Handicap and Gender Studies in Social Work: Independent Life and Support

Theoretical understanding and historical perspective:

• innovations in the field of disability;
• the impact of gender on disability;
• identifying violence and working with victims and perpetrators.

Practical methods:

• Conversation, deconstruction of conversations and support (understanding personal experience and individual perspective);
• understanding power and violence;
• positive discrimination/affirmative action;
• empowerment and empowerment for self-advocacy, advocacy, assertiveness, ethnography;
• Identification of users' needs and their rights (work, poverty, socialising, stigma, living, mobility);
• forms of work in different settings;
• social skills training;
• work and employment for people with intellectual disabilities;
• independent living in the community, returning to the community;
• action social work: "anti nimby";
• or working with the community;
• support for relatives/relatives;
• support for relatives/relatives;
• personal assistance and family helper;
• vocational rehabilitation and paid employment;
• understanding of legal procedures (legislation on family, guardianship, guidance procedures, employment);
• loss and mourning;
• psychosocial support for people with intellectual disabilities;
• the politicisation of social work: impact on specific social policies social work procedures in the sphere of public services, institutions, NGOs, private organisations.