The social, cultural, and political discourses of autism / / Jessica Nina Lester and Michelle O'Reilly

• Autore: Lester Jessica Nina
• Pubblicazione: Dordrecht, Netherlands ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Kluwer Academic Publishers, , [2021]; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 pages)
• Disciplina: 616.85882
• Soggetto topico: School psychology; Education and state; Educational sociology; Trastorns de l'espectre autista; Condicions socials; Psicologia escolar
• Soggetto genere / forma: Llibres electrònics
• Persona (resp. second.): O'ReillyMichelle
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The social, cultural, and political discourses of autism
• ISBN: 94-024-2134-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910508463503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Education, Equity, Economy