Pastoral Relationship with People with Intellectual ... - Theses

76and environmental barriers rather than functional limitations.” 186 Disability issegregated from the impaired body and is fixedly located within a prejudicial andoppressive socio-political context.There is a need to account for disability in a less exclusivist, moreintegrated form, in a way that acknowledges the complexity of how disabilityimpinges directly on the individual as an embodied being. However, there is alsothe need for appropriate understanding of the sense in which the environment candisable that same individual through the way in which contextual components aremanifested and enacted.In more recent years, there has been a growing call in Australia andinternationally for a more integrated or holistic approach to disability. Socialworkers Kyung Mee Kim and Edward Canda call for a holistic approach todisability that “encompasses the multiple domains of person and environment," 187as is reflected through a careful integration and implementation of both theMedical and Social models of disability. Rehabilitative nurses and researchersBarbara Lutz and Barbara Bowers have also argued for greater integration ofrehabilitative and social models. 188 Similarly, in 2011, the South Australian StateGovernment’s Social Inclusion Board, in detailing a comprehensive series ofrecommendations to advance the lives of people with disabilities, their familiesand carers, underpins its report by stating that it,..... recognises disability is the product of impairment offunctionality and the environment that [the] person lives in. Social,economic and cultural barriers can limit a person with disability’scapacity to participate and be included. These barriers compound186 Finkelstein, Vic. "Disability: An Administrative Challenge? (the Health and WelfareHeritage)." In Social Work: Disabled People and Disabling Environments, edited by MichaelOliver, 19-39. (London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers Ltd., 1993), 39.This position is endorsed by social worker and social model advocate Michael Oliver in,Oliver, The Politics of Disablement, and Oliver, Michael. "Defining Impairment andDisability: Issues at Stake." In Exploring the Divide: Illness and Disability, edited by ColinBarnes and Geof Mercer, 39-53. (Leeds: The Disability Press, 1996).187 Kim, Kyung Mee, and Edward Canda. "Toward a Holistic View of Health and HealthPromotion in Social Work with People with Disabilities." Journal of Social Work inDisability & Rehabilitation 5, no. 2(2006): 49-67, 64.188 Lutz, Barbara, and Barbara Bowers. "Understanding How Disability Is Defined andConceptualized in the Literature." In The Psychological and Social Impact of Illness andDisability, edited by Paul Power and Dell Orto, 11-21. (New York: Springer PublishingCompany, 2007), 16-18.