Sponsor
Portland State University. School of Social Work
First Advisor
Jack Hegrenes
Term of Graduation
Spring 1975
Date of Publication
5-1975
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Social Work (MSW)
Department
Social Work
Language
English
Subjects
People with mental disabilities -- Oregon -- Multnomah County
DOI
10.15760/etd.1911
Physical Description
1 online resource (v, 77 pages)
Abstract
This is a study of mild and borderline mentally retarded adults living in Multnomah County, Oregon, who at one time in their lives were patients at Fairview Training School. The concept of "normalization" is merging with the political necessity of "advocacy" to create a different role for the traditionally silent and previously institutionalized retarded citizen, along with new roles for the professional worker with the retarded. Mentally retarded citizens have only recently begun to speak out for themselves; even less frequent it seems, has any concerted listening on the part of the public or professional community which deals day to day with the retarded citizen in the community. This study represents some first steps toward listening to the retarded citizen's new voice, toward a more humanistic appraisal of the life styles of this group.
We have been concerned with the elusive concept of dependent versus independent living in the day to day life of this population, i.e., Educable Mentally Retarded (EMR) adults. Since very little is known about this population in our community, our effort can be considered an exploratory descriptive study of the life styles of mild/borderline previously institutionalized adults.
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Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/12382
Recommended Citation
Kiley, Susan J.; Sher, Jeffrey D.; and Sunshine, Richard C., "A Descriptive Study of Previously Institutionalized Educable Mentally Retarded Adults Residing in Multnomah County, Oregon" (1975). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 1912.
https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.1911
Comments
A practicum submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Social Work.
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