CONCEPTUALIZING THE SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY THERAPY FROM THREE MAIN ECOSYSTEMIC MODELS
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https://doi.org/10.46827/ejse.v0i0.631Keywords:
community therapy, intellectual and developmental disability, model of disability, special needs, therapeutic communityAbstract
The authors of this paper have coined the term special needs community therapists to describe this unique group of special needs professionals involved in a participatory community-based trans-disciplinary treatment (involving intervention, rehabilitation and/or management) that caters to short-term (acute cases) and long-term (chronic cases) intellectual and developmental disabilities done within a residential context, where the clients (i.e., these individuals are treated as customers who need specialized therapy services) and the therapists live and work together. Community therapy for people with special needs can be provided via two main management systems – clinically based case management (institution-centered) and/or person-centered care management (client-centered) – and several different service models such as standard community treatment with high client-therapist ratios and intensive community treatment where the emphasis is on community involvement and lower client-therapist ratios.
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