Ufkun Ötesi Bilim Dergisi
Yazarlar: Aslıhan AYKARA, Gizem ÇELİK
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Anahtar Kelimeler:Individual with physical disability,Existential approach,Freedom,Responsibility,Social work values
Özet: Humankind is the only creature, who forms and interprets his life within the sociocultural environment he or she lives in. In the process of formalization and interpretation, humans proceed to become social and free individuals who affect their environment while being affected from it at the same time. This process of becoming social and free individuals includes problems for almost all of the humans. Oppressive and directing attitude of the society that prevents the humans struggles for existence is the reason for this. Although this attitude differs from society to society, the only thing that never changes is the exposure of the “individuals with different existence characteristics (language, religion, gender, sexual tendency, race, ethnicity, physical chracteristics, etc.)” to these attitudes and their internalisation of these. One section of these individuals with different existence characteristics are the individuals with disability. selection of their own essense; and that of social work, like respect to value and honour of the humans, uniqueness of individuals, starting where the individuals stand, working with the individual not in their name, respect to differences, being individualised, individual in envirınment and self-determination. These principles and values are important particularly for the physical disabled individuals who have different characteristics than those of the society in general. That is why, dealing with the positions of these individuals in the society, their problems and requirements within the context of these principles and values is very important. The intention of this article is to discuss the meaning of being a physically disabled individual from the perspective of existential approach. In the evaluation some restrictions are made because of the context and depth of the issue. The first of these is selecting physical disabilities (sight disability, hearing disability, speech disability, orthopedic disability). This restriction is made because the lives of physically disabled individuals are different than the lives of the mentally disabled individuals. Another restriction is the selection of congenitally disabled individuals rather than accidentially disabled individuals due to their different lives. In addition to this, existential approach is discussed with the context of the principles of “accepting humans as a concrete subject and an individual”, “realisation of existence before essence” and “humans selection of their own essense”. From the perpective of the social work values, the principles of “respect to value and honour of the humans”, “uniqueness of individuals”, “starting where the individuals stand”, “working with the individuals, not in their name”, “respect to differences”, “being individualised”, and “self-determination” are discussed