Helping the Handicapped: Problems and Prospects

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Society views the handicapped with negligence or indifference at best. At worst it mistreats and makes them carry a burden of guilt arising out of superstition. But the handicapped can be very productive members of the society, even if they are not specially gifted. Certain jobs can be manned and performed efficiently even by the handicapped.

It is not only training and employment of the handicapped, a serious problem, but more serious is the problem often self image of the handicapped themselves. Trackling these problems need multi-dimensional approach, medical, education, social and vocational. This book examines these problems incisively drawing the experience of a number of agencies who have done pioneering work in India and abroad. The book will be of immense use to sociologist, psychologists, and social workers and those interested in the field of education and training often handicapped.

This book also covers discussion of such topics as mental retardation and anti social behaviour, including Juvenile delinquency which is a burning problem of the day. In discussing the behavioural problems of childhood, it analyses the role of the family as a major agent of socialization.

The book is very useful to schools of social work, teachers and parents and social workers, and persons involved in rehabilitation work.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Arvindrai N. Desai

Dr. Arvindrai N. Desai graduated from Elphinstone College, Bombay and obtained his Doctrate in Psychology from Gujarat University.  He worked as a clinical Psychologist at the Ontario Reformatories in Canada, where he did his postdoctoral research, and at the National Unemployment Service Commission in Toronto, where he presented more than a dozen research papers.  He was with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay, as a Faculty Members and with Sardar Patel University as a post-graduate teacher and Ph.D. guide in Psychology.  Twenty fellow students received Ph.D. degrees.  Dr. Desai has published more than 200 scholarly articles in reputed papers, seven books and more than 60 research papers.  He has handled research projects sponsored by national academic bodies like the ICSSR, New Delhi.  He retired as Professor of Psychology from B.D. Arts College, Ahmedabad, in 1984.  Currently he is working as a visiting Faculty Professor of Research Methodology in B.K. School of Business Management, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad.

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Title
Helping the Handicapped: Problems and Prospects
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8131307793
Length
x+282p.,
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