Recasting ‘harm’ in support: Misrecognition between people with intellectual disability and paid workers

Sally Robinson; Karen Fisher; Anne Graham; Heikki Ikaheimo; Kelley Johnson; Tova Rozengarten

doi:10.1080/09687599.2022.2029357

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Recasting ‘harm’ in support: Misrecognition between people with intellectual disability and paid workers

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Recasting ‘harm’ in support: Misrecognition between people with intellectual disability and paid workers

Sally Robinson, Karen Fisher, Anne Graham, Heikki Ikaheimo, Kelley Johnson and Tova Rozengarten

Disability & society, Vol.38(9), pp.1667-1688

2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2022.2029357

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Abuse

Violence

Young people

Support work

NDIS

Recognition theory

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.

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Title: Recasting ‘harm’ in support: Misrecognition between people with intellectual disability and paid workers
Creators: Sally Robinson - Flinders University
Karen Fisher - UNSW Sydney
Anne Graham - Southern Cross University
Heikki Ikaheimo - UNSW Sydney
Kelley Johnson - UNSW Sydney
Tova Rozengarten - Flinders University
Publication Details: Disability & society, Vol.38(9), pp.1667-1688
Publisher: Routledge
Grants: Young people with cognitive disability: Relationships and paid support, LP150100013, Australian Research Council
Identifiers: 991013179909102368
Copyright: © 2022 the author(s). Published by Informa UK limited, trading as Taylor & Francis. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Academic Unit: Faculty of Health; Centre for Children and Young People
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

Recasting ‘harm’ in support: Misrecognition between people with intellectual disability and paid workers

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