This is the only text to examine the experience of disability in relation to theories of human growth and development. It provides a foundational and comprehensive examination of disability that encompasses the intellectual, psychiatric, physical, and social arenas. The second edition is updated to underscore its versatility as an introductory text about the developmental tasks of people with disabilities for all the helping professions. Reorganized to illuminate the book's interdisciplinary focus, it includes new demographics, new case studies and first-person accounts, discussions on cultural aspects of disabilities, family concerns, and more.
The text delivers practice guidelines for each of the conventional life stages and describes the developmental tasks of individuals with disabilities (IWDs). It emphasizes the positive trend in the perception of IWDs as normal and underscores the fact that IWDs have the same motivations, emotions, and goals as those without disabilities. Learning activities, suggestions for writing exercises, and websites for further study reinforce learning, as do graphs and charts illustrating trends and demographics.
Julie Smart, PhD, was on the faculty at Utah State for 24 years, teaching in a graduate Rehabilitation Counseling program. She has published more than 40 articles about disability in peer-reviewed journals, several book chapters, and three singleauthor textbooks. The first book is entitled Disability, Society, and the Individual (2001, 2007, 2015) and is in its third edition. The second book is titled Disability Definitions and Diagnoses and Practice Implications: An Introduction for Counselors. The third book is entitled Disability Across the Developmental Lifespan (2012), and this book is in its second edition.
In April 2016, Dr. Smart received the Distinguished Career in Rehabilitation Counseling Education from the National Council on Rehabilitation Education (NCRE). NCRE is the national association of professors of rehabilitation counseling.
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