The Psychological and social impact of disability / [electronic resource] Robert P. Marinelli, Arthur E. Dell Orto, editors ; foreword by Irving Kenneth Zola.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-346) and index.

The contribution of the physically and mentally handicapped to development / Jean Vanier -- The interdisciplinary status of rehabilitation psychology / Joseph Stubbins -- Theories and values : ethics and contrasting perspectives on disability / Harlan Hahn -- Ethical issues in teamwork : the context of rehabilitation / Ruth B. Purtilo -- Women and rehabilitation / Shari L. Thurer -- Explaining "psychiatric rehabilitation" by an analogy to "physical rehabilitation" / William A. Anthony -- Recovery : the lived experience of rehabilitation / Patricia E. Deegan -- The birth of a handicapped child : a wholistic model for grieving / Martha Wingerd Bristor -- Developmental tasks and transitions of adolescents with chronic illnesses and disabilities / Sherry E. Davis ... [et al.].

Midlife transition and disability / Paul W. Power, David B. Hershenson, and Nancy K. Schlossberg -- Disability and psychosocial development in old age / Helen Q. Kivnick -- Six principles relating disability and psychological adjustment / Franklin C. Shontz -- A unified approach to exisitng models of adaptation to disability : a model of adaptation / Hanoch Livneh -- Denial in rehabilitation : its genesis, consequences, and clinical management / Richard I. Naugle -- Communication barriers between "the able-bodied" and "the handicapped" / Irving Kenneth Zola -- On accepting relationships between people with mental retardation and nondisabled people : towards an understanding of acceptance / Steven J. Taylor and Robert Bogdan.

On the origins of negative attitudes toward people with disabilities / Hanoch Livneh -- Sexual values, training, and professional roles / Stanley Ducharme and Kathleen M. Gill -- Sexuality and psychiatric disability / Peter T. Knoepfler -- Facing the challenges of sexual abuse in persons with disabilities / Sandra S. Cole -- A unified approach to existing models of adaptation to disability : intervention strategies / Hanoch Livneh -- Extending psychotherapeutic strategies to people with disabilities / William A. McDowell, George F. Bills, and Marc W. Eaton -- Life's challenges : curse or opportunity? : counseling families of persons with disabilities / Mary R. Hulnick and H. Ronald Hulnick.

Who is responsible for the lifelong well-being of a person with a head injury? / Gerben DeJong, Andrew I. Batavia, and Janet M. Williams -- Aging and disability : toward a unified agenda / Irving Kenneth Zola -- Families as caregivers : the limits of morality / Daniel Callahan -- Silent casualties : partners, families, and spouses of persons with AIDS / R. Jane Williams and William G. Stafford -- Psychosocial rehabilitation : toward a definition / Ram Cnaan ... [et al.] -- Coping with the enormity of illness and disability / Arthur E. Dell Orto.