Check Out Supported Decision-Making: Theory, Research, And Practice To Enhance Self-Determination And Quality Of Life Written And Illustrated By Karrie A. Shogren Disseminated As Digital Edition

United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities CRPD recognized that people with disabilities should have the right to exercise their legal capacity and identified 'supported decisionmaking' as a means by which people with disabilities can be directly involved in decisions that impact their lives.
Offering an overview of its emergence in the disability field and highlighting emerging research, theory, and practice from legal, psychology, education, and health fields, this volume provides a muchneeded theoretical and evidence base for supported decisionmaking.
Evidence and strengthsbased frameworks for understanding disability, supports, and their roles in promoting supported decisionmaking are synthesized, The authors describe the application of a socialecological approach to supported decisionmaking, and focus on implications for building systems of supports based on current environmental demands.
This volume introduces and explains empirical research

on critical elements of supported decisionmaking and the applications of supported decisionmaking that enhance outcomes, including selfdetermination and quality of life.
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