Overview
This topic helps students apply contemporary understandings of disability to practice. This includes how to apply an embodied approach to practice, activating human rights, and how to reconcile competing models of disability in service provision.
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Aims
This topic aims to develop student's understanding of the complex interactions which contribute to the experience of disability: including lived body experience, social constructs of disability and the application of the biopsychosocial model in the Australian service system.
Learning outcomes
On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:
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Analyse and apply the biopsychosocial model to practice in disability service systems
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Apply an embodied approach to disability practice
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Apply biopsychosocial, human rights and embodiment theories to an analysis of disability assessment
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Understand and apply human rights to practice contexts
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