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Davis, Donna; Moscato, Derek – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2017
This study explores how visual narratives stemming from the experience of healthy embodiment in social virtual worlds, especially for individuals living with chronic disease or disability, both fosters relationships and more broadly impacts physical and emotional life experience and overall quality of life. It does so through the lens of social…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Social Support Groups, Social Networks, Personal Narratives
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Adams Rueda, Heidi; Linton, Kristen F.; Williams, Lela Rankin – Children & Schools, 2014
School social workers approach their direct practice from ecological systems and justice-oriented perspectives. As such, they may hold a critical role in providing needed sexual health and dating education and services to adolescents with disabilities. Thirteen high school social workers who work closely with adolescents with disabilities were…
Descriptors: Social Work, Caseworker Approach, School Counseling, Disabilities
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Rubin, Lisa R.; Tanenbaum, Molly – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2011
Feminist scholars and activists writing about breast cancer care among women have highlighted the sexist and heterosexist assumptions often embedded in the medical management of breast cancer, and of mastectomy in particular. Despite these contributions, and some speculation that sexual minority women may be less interested in breast…
Descriptors: Feminism, Females, Physicians, Cancer