Models of Disability There are various different models of disability but the ones I am going to be focusing on are medical and social. The difference between these two models of disability is that the medical one is where the individual is disabled for example they may have to use a wheel chair. The social model is the view of people in the society on people’s disabilities and how they approach this. For example in our setting we do not have wheelchair access for upstairs for people who may need
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the "biomedical model of health" (no hyphen) is sort of open to interpretation and not always defined the same way. And generally speaking a biopsychosocial model is almost universally used. But when I think of a biomedical model is it practicing medicine to "fix" things with the view that medical problems are organic (physical) without considering anything else. Some times it is referred (in an insulting way) to as the biomechanical model. To some extent that is true since a biomedical model
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Performance Evidence: Explore Models of Disability Date of activity: 12th October 2013 Ref to other units 58‚1.1 58‚1.2 58‚ 1.3 58‚2.1 58‚3‚3.1‚2‚3 58‚3.2‚3 58.2.2 58‚2.3 Examples of some theoretical models of disability are as follows; The medical model: is presented as viewing disability as a problem of the person
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MODELS OF DISABILITY STUDIES | MORAL-RELIGIOUS | BIO-MEDICAL | FUNCTIONAL | ENVIRON-MENTAL | SOCIO-POLITICAL | DEFINITION | Views disability as a punishment inflicted upon an individual or family by an external force. It can be due to misdemeanors committed by the disabled person‚ someone in the family or community group‚ or forbears. Birth conditions can be due to actions committed in a previous reincarnation. People are morally responsible for their own disability. | Focuses on purely biological
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Medical Model of Disability The medical model of disability is one that is primarily concerned with the justification of disability. It sees disability purely as a problem of the individual‚ without any discrimination between the impairment faced and the disability itself. “Any economic or social deprivation encountered by disabled people was located within the individual and their impairment.” (Swain et al.‚ 2003) To put it simply‚ a disabled person is seen as faulty and in need of fixing or curing
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I feel reflect some of the contrasting models of disability which we have looked at in Units 1-4 of the course materials (E214‚ The Open University‚ 2010). The first resource comes from the National Autistic Society’s website and the second comes from the national newspaper The Guardian. The first resource (Appendix A) is an information page entitled ‘What is Asperger Syndrome’ and particularly focusses on the medical/deficit model of disability‚ a model which involves identifying symptoms‚ diagnosing
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treatment and delivery and the differences between the social and medical model will address how the individual is treated in relation to health care. Key issues surrounding a work place or educational environment and generally the discrimination they face from different aspects within society will be discussed from a critical perspective. The introduction of relevant government legislation‚ in particular the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and the new Act in 2005 will show what measures have
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Attention Deficiency Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD). The two approaches are the Biomedical Model that posits that ADHD is a mental disorder that has a biological basis un its aetiology and the Social Construct Theory which indicates that ADHD is not a real disorder but a socially constructed explanation for behaviours that are outside social norms. Biomedical model of ADHD The causes of ADHD are unknown but the biomedical model of ADHD posits that ADHD results from an interaction of a network of biological
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Critically discuss the biomedical model and social model of health and how they relate to lay perspective on health and illness. For this essay I will be analytically examining the models of health; the biomedical model and social model. I will explain the advantages and disadvantages of these models and how they relate to the lay person’s viewpoint on health and illness. Models of health are ‘conceptual frameworks’ or another method of thinking about health. The biomedical model of health has been
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The main purpose of the biomedical model of health is to cure diseases in which health professionals will use scientifically tested methods to address a diagnosed illness. The biomedical model of health focuses on purely biological factors‚ and excludes psychological‚ environmental‚ and social influences. This model relates to the functionalist approach of health as it specifies that health is the absences of disease and it’s regarded as dysfunctional for the society as individuals cannot make a
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