About this course
This course teaches Social Role Valorization (SRV) to Direct Support Professionals, program managers, and case management staff. Part one covers where SRV came from: the Scandinavian principle of normalization formulated by Bank-Mikkelsen and Nirje, Wolf Wolfensberger's systematization of it in North America, and his 1983 decision to rename and reconceptualize it as Social Role Valorization. Part two covers societal devaluation and its consequences: how unconscious value judgments create devalued classes, the common wounds those classes suffer, the negative roles people are cast into, and what repeated wounding leaves behind in a person. Part three teaches the core proposition: people who hold positively valued social roles are far more likely to receive the good things in life, and the two great strategies for raising the perceived value of a person's roles are enhancing social image and enhancing personal competency. Part four works through the ten themes SRV is taught by, each with a realistic direct support example. Part five applies image juxtaposition to the four places DSPs actually control it: settings, groupings, activities and possessions, and language. Part six shows what all of it looks like in an ordinary shift, and how to build roles with a person rather than for them. Part seven takes the critiques of SRV seriously, distinguishes SRV from person-centered planning, and notes where SRV appears in state regulation. Suitable for new-hire orientation before unsupervised direct care, for program manager and case manager training cycles, and for annual refresher training.