Understanding the Experience of Disability

People with disabilities are people first. However because they represent a large and diverse group understanding how they navigate their social worlds and construe their situations is essential for rehabilitation therapists educators policy makers clinicians students and laypeople. This will be the first edited collection to cover classic current and nascent topics in the social psychology of disability in many years. The authors represent both established and new voices examining social psychological factors tied to the experience of disability. Researchers clinicians and educators can use or adapt chapter concepts for their respective professional venues.