Brief Introduction to Social Role Valorization

by Wolf Wolfensberger

This book is the 4th expanded edition. According to the subtitle, it is "A high-order concept for addressing the plight of societally devalued people, and for structuring human services".

Genres: Psychology, Education

275 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Jesse Bradstreet · Rating 3 out of 5]

6.5/10

(*read for an undergrad-level Disability Studies course)

As far as theory-books go, this struck a happy medium. Instead of creating a dense mixture of his theory, or a fluffy "self-help" style book for the masses, Wolfensberger aimed to give students peripherally interested in his Social Role Valorization theory an overview. He meets his goal pretty well. It's not fun reading, and it can, at times, seem a bit nebulous, but it's an important theory and this book gets the point across.

[Jordan Moore · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read this for a course. Informative definitely but the style it's written in is extremely tedious and repetitive.

[Steve Albert · Rating 3 out of 5]

Worth reviewing now and then.