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- Title
Viewing Disability Through Differing Lenses: Medical, Political, and Psychological.
- Authors
Vash, Carolyn L.
- Abstract
This article was originally presented as part of a symposium conducted during the annual convention of the American Psychological Association in Toronto, Ontario, on August 8, 2003. The symposium, sponsored by the Board of Affairs of Psychology in the Public Interest, was titled "The Over-Medicalization of Psychology." Whereas this article explores disability issues, other presentations examined effects of an excess emphasis on medical approaches to psychology practice on women, elders, ethnic minorities, and sexual or gender-identification minorities. The focus of concern was the current controversy surrounding psychologists seeking authority to prescribe biological treatments for psychological symptoms rather than continuing to use and develop less invasive psychological, social, and behavioral approaches.
- Subjects
TORONTO (Ont.); ONTARIO; CANADA; CONFERENCES &; conventions; PSYCHOLOGY; HUMAN biology; SOCIAL sciences; SOCIAL psychology; HUMAN ecology; PUBLIC interest; PUBLIC welfare
- Publication
Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 2004, Vol 47, Issue 4, p247
- ISSN
0034-3552
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/00343552040470040601