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Disability in Adolescence (Hardcover)
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Disability in Adolescence (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: The Adolescent
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For all the work on disability in previous years, there had been
surprisingly little done on a subject of central importance - the
social and psychological needs of teenagers with disabilities.
Originally published in 1982, the purpose of this timely book was
both to review the literature and to report an extensive study of
the nature of the psychological problems, the quality of social
life and the adequacy of the services available to a substantial
group of teenagers with disabilities in the last years at school,
with a follow-up study of half their number a year later. The
authors show that many of these teenagers, including those with a
mild disability, are often unhappy, worried and isolated from their
peers. While the majority of the teenagers with disabilities,
whether in ordinary or special schools, made friends at school,
these friendships were rarely sustained outside. After leaving
school the degree of social isolation is as great, and often worse.
Among these teenagers the incidence of psychological problems was
three to four times higher than for a control group, the most
common being worry, depression, misery, fearfulness and lack of
self-confidence and self-esteem. For the most part, the teenagers
with disabilities were likely to be immature and ill-prepared to
cope with adult life. These findings underline the need for a
counselling service while the teenagers are still at school, and
supporting services when they have left. Like other teenagers,
those in this study were unprepared for the possibility of not
having a job, and had not thought how to organize their lives if a
job was not available or feasible. The authors draw attention to
the large proportion of people with disabilities without occupation
after leaving school, and the high dissatisfaction with day
centres. Perhaps their most important finding is the need to
rationalize the piecemeal and overlapping provision of help for
school-leavers with disabilities. In the meantime, their book
provides a wealth of information of direct use to those concerned
with teenagers with disabilities and their families, whether in
school provision, careers advice, work placement and alternatives
to work, social services, counselling, medical services and further
education. This book is a re-issue originally published in 1982.
The language used is a reflection of its era and no offence is
meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication.
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