Abolishing Competency as a Construction of Difference: A Radical Proposal to Promote the Equality of Persons With Disabilities
Year: 1993
Type: article
Abstract: This article is dedicated to those with disabilities who are denied the joy of choice.1.While this Article will refer to all persons with disabilities, the primary victims of these disadvantages and the subjects of incompetency determinations are individuals with mental disabilities.These disabilities are usually serious or complicated impairments, although they may be temporary, such as the case of an individual experiencing an acute and disorienting phase of an emotional illness, or they may be permanent, such as the situation with individuals with profound retardation or traumatic head injuries.While the duration of the disability is at least theoretically irrelevant to the assessment of competency, the severity of the disability clearly is not.
Author: Schwartz, Steven J.
Institutions: Harvard University, University of Miami
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1450014036