07831nam 2200613 450 991050846350332120231110222523.094-024-2134-3(MiAaPQ)EBC6804052(Au-PeEL)EBL6804052(CKB)19410540300041(OCoLC)1285487588(EXLCZ)991941054030004120220813d2021 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe social, cultural, and political discourses of autism /Jessica Nina Lester and Michelle O'ReillyDordrecht, Netherlands ;Boston, Massachusetts :Kluwer Academic Publishers,[2021]©20211 online resource (208 pages)Education, Equity, Economy ;v.9Print version: Lester, Jessica Nina The Social, Cultural, and Political Discourses of Autism Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands,c2021 9789402421330 Includes bibliographical references and index.Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Chapter 1: Introduction to the Social, Cultural, and Political Discourses of Autism -- Centring Disability with Language Choices -- Defining Key Terms -- Our Positionalities -- Theoretical and Methodological Framing of the Book -- Social Constructionism -- An Overview of Social Constructionism and Autism -- Discursive Psychology -- An Overview of Discursive Psychology and Autism -- Datasets and Previous Research Endeavours -- Overview and Structure of the Book -- Concluding Thoughts -- Chapter 2: Historical and Social Constructions of Disability -- Introduction -- An Abbreviated History of Mental Health and Mental Illness -- Demonology -- Enlightenment -- Calls for Reform -- Failures of Reform -- Rise of New Models and Deinstitutionalization -- Policy and Legislation -- Classifications Systems -- Diagnosis: An Interpretative Process -- Dominant Classification System Relevant to Autism - The DSM and ICD -- Critiques of Classification Systems -- Medicalization and the Medical Model of Disability -- Autism and the Medical Model of Disability -- The Social Model of Disability -- Autism and the Social Model of Disability -- Other Models of Disability -- The Moral Model of Disability -- The Identity Model of Disability -- The Labelling Model of Disability -- The Human Rights Model of Disability -- The Economic (and Political) Model of Disability -- The Predicament Model -- The Intersection of Models of Disability -- Concluding Thoughts -- Chapter 3: What Is Autism? A Clinical Understanding -- Introduction -- Medically Defining Autism -- Early History of Autism -- Developing the Triad of Impairments -- Terminology of Autism -- Classifying Autism -- The Diagnostic Statistical Manual - The Early Days -- DSM-5 and the Modern Day -- DSM-5 and Autism -- A Word About Asperger's Syndrome.Diagnosing Autism Clinically -- Presumed Difficulties in Communication and Social Interaction -- Theory of Mind -- Restrictive and Repetitive Patterns of Behaviour -- Presumed Difficulties in Sensory Processing -- Presumed Difficulties in Executive Functioning -- Parent Responses to an Autism Diagnosis - Traditional Rhetoric -- Prevalence of Autism - Controversy of the 'Epidemic' -- Gender and Autism -- Concluding Thoughts -- Chapter 4: The Social, Cultural and Discursive Construction of Autism as a Mental Health Condition and Disability: Different Perspectives -- Introduction -- Autism Across Time and Place -- Medicalization -- A Note of Caution -- Medicalization and Autism -- The Reification of Medicalization Through Research Funds -- Neurodiversity: A Notion of Natural Human Variation -- Is Autism a Psychiatric Disability, a Disorder, or a Natural Variance of Difference? -- Exploring the Tensions in Practice: Findings From our Research -- The Methods -- Our Findings -- The Boundaries of Normalcy and Autism -- Extract Example (Taken from Lester et al., 2015, p. 142) -- The Boundaries Between Ability and Disability -- Extract Example (Taken from Lester et al., 2015, p. 143). -- Extract Example (Taken from Lester et al., 2015, p. 144) -- Navigating the Severity of Autism -- Extract Example (Taken from Lester et al., 2015, p. 146) -- Negotiating Epistemic Agency -- Extract Example (Lester et al., 2015, p. 147) -- Concluding Thoughts -- Chapter 5: Constructing the Meaning(s) of Autism -- Introduction -- Therapists' and Parents' Orientations to the Meanings of Autism -- Extract Example -- Extract Example (O'Reilly et al., 2016, p. 73) -- Extract Example (O'Reilly et al., 2016, p. 74) -- Extract Example (O'Reilly et al., 2016, p. 76) -- Performing Normality -- Extract Example -- Performance and Disability Categories -- Extract Example.Concluding Thoughts -- Chapter 6: Mental Health, Autism, and Issues of Inequality and Resources -- Introduction -- Health Inequalities -- Socioeconomics, Health, and Disability -- Neoliberalism and The Sick Role -- Inequality and Mental Health -- The Cost of Mental Health -- Parity of Esteem -- COVID-19 and Autism -- Autism, COVID-19, and Inequalities -- Neoliberalism, Economics, and Autism -- The Societal Cost of Autism -- The Familial Cost of Autism -- The Relational Cost of Autism -- Educational Resources and Autism Inequalities -- Special Education and Inequalities -- Teachers' and Parents' Views -- Example 1: from Family 17 -- Example 2:Family 17 -- Employment Inequalities -- The Internet as a Resource: Supporting Social Skills or Isolating Autistic People from the World? -- The Market Economies of Disablement: An Empirical Example -- Insurance Mandates Permeate the Therapy Setting -- Disability Labels Functioning to Secure Services -- Example -- Concluding Thoughts -- Chapter 7: Stigma, Disability, and Autism -- Introduction -- Stigma, Prejudice and Discrimination -- Service Provision, Attitudes, and Help-Seeking -- Stigma, Children and Young People -- Autism and Stigma -- Stigma and Medication -- Mother-Blaming, Stigma, and Autism -- Mother Blaming, Mental Health and Disabilities -- Mother Blaming and Autism -- Example: Family 18 -- Genetic Essentialism, Stigma, and Blame -- The Role of the Media in Perpetuating Stigma -- A Critical Appraisal of the Notion of Vulnerability -- Concluding Thoughts -- Chapter 8: Summarizing Core Issues -- Introduction -- Our Arguments and Positionality Under the Spotlight -- Issues at Stake -- Future Directions for Research -- Qualitative Research -- Discourse Analysis -- Conversation Analysis -- Video Reflexive Ethnography -- Concluding Thoughts -- Appendix A: Jeffersonian Transcription Symbols (Jefferson, 2004).References -- Index.Education, Equity, Economy School psychologyEducation and stateEducational sociologyTrastorns de l'espectre autistathubCondicions socialsthubPsicologia escolarthubLlibres electrònicsthubSchool psychology.Education and state.Educational sociology.Trastorns de l'espectre autistaCondicions socialsPsicologia escolar616.85882Lester Jessica Nina767339O'Reilly MichelleMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910508463503321The social, cultural, and political discourses of autism2904764UNINA