Psychology is infamous for its longstanding contribution to propagating pathologising ways of conceptualising disability and ways of thinking about individuals with disabilities that prioritise attention to difference as meaning deviance and deficit. Characteristically, studies of childhood disability have made intermittent reference to strengths, capabilities and well-being in rather cursory and taken-for-granted ways. In response, the author identifies the nascent sub-discipline of positive psychology as a field that holds significant research utility. Accordingly, this study utilised a...
Psychology is infamous for its longstanding contribution to propagating pathologising ways of conceptualising disability and ways of thinking about in...