As the leading journal in professional counseling addressing group work, it is imperative that The Journal for Specialists in Group Work (JSGW) cover a wide range of issues and address the various populations who present themselves in group work settings. As an organization, the Association for Specialists in Group Work (ASGW) has led in its focus on diversity, multiculturalism, and international issues. JSGW, its professional journal, has followed this charge, publishing numerous special issues, as well as individual articles, covering the breadth and depth of multicultural and social justice issues. Further, there have been increased calls for wider coverage of these issues, as well as notes for which the journal appears to still lack (Goodrich, 2018). This could not be more true than in the area of disability, which has received sparse coverage in JSGW. Today, an understanding of disability is critical because the population of people with disabilities is one of the fastest growing minority groups, increasing from 11.9% in 2010 to 12.8% in 2016 in the United States (Kraus, Lauer, Coleman, & Houtenville, 2018). Historically segregated, people with disabilities are increasingly able to participate in society because of civil rights protections that emerged from the 1970’s disability rights movement (Hartley, 2018). Perhaps one of the most important moments was April 5, 1977, when a national group of disability rights advocates organized simultaneous protests in nine cities to demand the enforcement of civil rights protections (Longmore, 2003; Shapiro, 1994). From these protests emerged a larger cultural movement focused on equal employment, greater political participation, and better community services (Campbell & Oliver, 1996; Longmore, 2003). While people with disabilities are more integrated than ever before in our society, the disability is an experience typically misunderstood by many, including professional counselors who often have limited experience and training around disability. While almost everyone will experience changes in ability and functioning with age, and temporary and permanent impairments are a common part of the human experience, misconceptions about disability are often a result of ableism – the notion that disability is much more than a psychological, physiological or anatomical difference, but rather, a social construction used to define some groups of people as normal contrasted against the abnormal. A construct similar to racism and sexism, ableism is the perceived inferiority of people with disabilities and preference for able-bodiedness. Historically and currently, ableism has intersected with other significant social justice issues because it has been used to justify inequality for people with disabilities as well as other groups of people. Indeed, scholars have argued that the ways in which disability is discussed provides a lens to see how disability is understood within our larger society. Scholars, for instance, have noted how disability has been used to justify inequality for not only people with disabilities, but also other groups of people, including women, African Americans, and immigrants (Block, Balcazar, & Keys, 2001). In the mid-nineteenth century, a common justification of slavery was that African Americans lacked sufficient intelligence to participate on an equal basis in society (Baynton, 2013). THE JOURNAL FOR SPECIALISTS IN GROUP WORK 2019, VOL. 44, NO. 4, 223–227 https://doi.org/10.1080/01933922.2019.1670024

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所有人的小组工作

作为解决小组工作的专业咨询的领先期刊，小组工作专家杂志 (JSGW) 必须涵盖广泛的问题，并针对在小组工作环境中出现的各种人群。作为一个组织，团体工作专家协会 (ASGW) 在关注多样性、多元文化和国际问题方面处于领先地位。其专业期刊 JSGW 紧随其后，出版了大量特刊和个人文章，涵盖了多元文化和社会正义问题的广度和深度。此外，越来越多的人呼吁更广泛地报道这些问题，以及该期刊似乎仍然缺乏的注释（古德里奇，2018 年）。这在残疾领域最为真实，它在 JSGW 中得到了稀疏的报道。今天，对残疾的理解至关重要，因为残疾人人口是增长最快的少数群体之一，在美国从 2010 年的 11.9% 增加到 2016 年的 12.8% (Kraus, Lauer, Coleman, & Houtenville, 2018 ）。由于 1970 年代残疾人权利运动（Hartley，2018 年）出现的公民权利保护，历史上被隔离的残疾人越来越能够参与社会。也许最重要的时刻之一是 1977 年 4 月 5 日，当时一个全国性的残疾人权利倡导团体在九个城市同时组织了抗议活动，要求执行公民权利保护（Longmore，2003 年；Shapiro，1994 年）。从这些抗议活动中出现了一场更大规模的文化运动，关注平等就业 更大的政治参与和更好的社区服务（Campbell & Oliver，1996 年；Longmore，2003 年）。虽然残疾人比以往任何时候都更加融入我们的社会，但残疾是一种通常被许多人误解的经历，包括通常在残疾方面缺乏经验和培训的专业顾问。虽然几乎每个人的能力和功能都会随着年龄的增长而发生变化，而暂时性和永久性损伤是人类经历的常见组成部分，但对残疾的误解往往是残疾的结果——残疾不仅仅是心理、生理或解剖学上的差异，而是一种社会结构，用于将某些人群定义为正常人群与异常人群形成对比。一种类似于种族主义和性别歧视的结构，能力主义是对残疾人的自卑感和对健全人的偏爱。历史上和现在，能力主义与其他重要的社会正义问题相互交织，因为它被用来为残疾人和其他人群的不平等辩护。事实上，学者们认为，讨论残疾的方式提供了一个视角，可以了解我们更大的社会如何理解残疾。例如，学者们已经注意到残疾如何被用来证明不仅是残疾人，而且包括妇女、非裔美国人和移民在内的其他群体的不平等是合理的（Block, Balcazar, & Keys, 2001）。在十九世纪中叶，奴隶制的一个常见理由是非裔美国人缺乏足够的智慧来平等参与社会（Baynton，2013）。2019 年小组工作专家杂志，第一卷。44，没有。4, 223–227 https://doi.org/10.1080/01933922.2019.1670024