Journal article
Recasting 'harm' in support: Misrecognition between people with intellectual disability and paid workers
Disability & Society, Vol.38(9), pp.1667-1688
2023
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Abstract
Policy efforts addressing abuse of people with disability tend to focus on more extreme forms of violence, sometimes at the expense of attending to everyday indignities and insults experienced when receiving support. Recognition theory provides a lens for identifying actions and attitudes of misrecognition that can cause hurt, humiliation or degradation, and have a negative effect on identity formation. Honneth’s concept of misrecognition is used to analyse qualitative data from 42 pairs of young people with intellectual disability and support workers. Many of the casual interactions that signalled misrecognition highlight the everyday harms that people receiving or giving support are exposed to in their paired relationship. Systems must respond to the high likelihood of these risks of misrecognition. Supervision, training, reflective practice and support activities can expose the problems and demonstrate practices more likely to positively impact the identity formation and wellbeing for both people with disability and support workers.
Details
- Title
- Recasting 'harm' in support: Misrecognition between people with intellectual disability and paid workers
- Creators
- Sally Robinson - Flinders UniversityKaren R Fisher - University of New South WalesAnne Graham - Southern Cross UniversityHeikki Ikäheimo - University of New South WalesKelley Johnson - University of New South WalesTova Rozengarten - Flinders University
- Publication Details
- Disability & Society, Vol.38(9), pp.1667-1688
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Grant note
- This research was conducted through an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant (LP150100013).
- Identifiers
- 991012994195502368
- Copyright
- © 2022 The Author(s).
- Academic Unit
- Centre for Children and Young People; Faculty of Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article