Experiential Research by Disabled Students into the Social and Emotional Components of Disabling Illness

Abstract

The opportunity to conduct research into an area of personal disability provides the graduate student additional maturation and increased self-realization. The student is thereby able to contribute significantly to the corporate knowledge of the disability through integration of past personal experience with the knowledge and techniques gained through professional education.

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Leslie J. Shellhase

LESLIE J. SHELLHASE is a professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Alabama, and SUSAN CRAFT RITTER is a psychiatric social worker in the Alcohol Dependency Treatment Program at the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama. This paper originally was presented at the Council on Social Work Education Annual Program Meeting in Boston, March 5, 1979.

Susan Craft Ritter

LESLIE J. SHELLHASE is a professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Alabama, and SUSAN CRAFT RITTER is a psychiatric social worker in the Alcohol Dependency Treatment Program at the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama. This paper originally was presented at the Council on Social Work Education Annual Program Meeting in Boston, March 5, 1979.