Beyond Adjustment
Integration of cognitive disability into identity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12313376 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marjorie F Olney (corresponding author), Amanda Kim (0000-0002-7815-0389) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 563-583 |
| Publication date | 2001-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Disability & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0968-7599 • E-ISSN: 1360-0508 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09687590120059540 |
| OpenAlex | W1996300802 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 15 |
This study results from a series of focus groups during which university students, all of whom were diagnosed with disabilities that affect mental or cognitive functioning, met to discuss the challenges that they face, as well as the supports and strategies that help them to surmount social and academic obstacles. Participants had a range of labels including brain injury, neurological impairment, psychiatric disorder and learning disability. Gleaned from transcripts and field notes, this paper makes explicit the processes that students used to develop a self-perception that positively integrates their experience of disability. These complex processes included self-definition of difficulties, coping with limitations, identity management and embracing one's difference. Integration of disability into identity did not appear to be a staged process for these participants. Rather, they considered the implications of being labelled disabled simultaneously and from several perspectives. Findings are discussed in terms of adjustment of two groups whose members have different experiences from those in the majority: survivors of sexual abuse and racial minorities
Cognition · Cognitive disabilities · Cognitive skill · Coping (psychology · Developmental psychology · Identity (music · Learning disability · Perception · Poison control · Psychiatry · Sexual abuse · Clinical Psychology · Disability Education and Employment · Disability Rights and Representation · Down syndrome and intellectual disability research · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Medicine · Psychology
Indigenous Knowledge of Namibia
Investigating Student Teaching Directors’ Definitions of “Teacher” and Paradigms of Disability in Canadian Teacher Education Programs
Undergraduate Disabled Students as Knowledge Producers Including Researchers
Dialogue about violence with victims with cognitive disabilities
Professional Career Development in the Arts Management of Supported Studios in Australia
Emergent questions of access
Career counselling university students with learning disabilities
(Re)constructing identity following acquired brain injury
Using Vignettes in Interviews to Enhance Reflexivity and Sense Making of Violence With Persons With Cognitive Disabilities
Our neurodiverse minds at work’
The legitimization process of students with disabilities in Health and Human Service educational programs in Canada
Out of the Disability Closet
Actively navigating the transition into college
Seeing What We Know
Voices of “disabled” post secondary students
My success as a teacher amazes me each and every day’ – perspectives of teachers with learning disabilities
Shifting the perspective from ‘incapable’ to ‘capable’ for artists with cognitive disability; case studies in Australia and South Korea
Critiquing reasonable adjustment
Reconsidering the Inclusive Research Approach
Song Collage Technique
Barriers to learning
Anxiety and Depression in Emerging Adults
I Speak a Different Dialect
The Handbook for Focus Group Research
Stigma
Making It Crazy
Making Disability
On Accepting Relationships between People with Mental Retardation and Non-disabled People
Relations between the disabled and chronic sick and society
The cultural adversity of physical disability
Making Disability
Beyond Stigma
Disability Beyond Stigma
The Thomas and Cross Models of Psychological Nigrescence
The Body, Identity, and Self
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |