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Diversity and social justice are so foundational and central to rehabilitation psychology that these values are quite literally the heart and soul of the field. Rehabilitation psychology visionaries such as Tamara Dembo and Beatrice Wright long argued for the incorporation of a holistic, psychosocial perspective encompassing all aspects of disability, with a particular focus on the connection between disabled people and the social environment This early work formed scaffolding for rehabilitation psychologists to become involved in civil rights activism, contributing, along with many other disability activists, to the passage of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, and most recently the ADA Amendments Act of 2008.

Today, rehabilitation psychology distinguishes itself from allied health professions, such as neuropsychology or clinical psychology, not just in the additional intervention emphasis or specific populations served, but so intrinsically and inseparably through a unique ecological perspective wherein the primary emphasis is not on alleviating impairments from specific lesions or health conditions but instead on how disability impairments interact with disabled persons and their social environment. This special issue of Rehabilitation Psychology follows directly in this tradition, featuring a series of 13 articles on diversity and social justice in disability research. Each of the articles conceptualizes disability as an important aspect of identity and/or examines disability as it intersects with other diverse forms of identity, such as race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation and gender.

They also incorporate new insights into how disparities in rehabilitation and psychological adjustment to disability occur in diverse populations; how stigma may play a role in that adjustment; and how individual, cultural, or collective strengths of diverse populations facilitate maximal rehabilitation and psychological adjustment in the context of disability. A goal of this special issue is to generate implications for how psychologists and allied health professionals can best fulfill their social justice, human rights, and advocacy missions in order to advance access and inclusion with and for disabled people. All of the articles in this special issue on diversity and social justice in disability research work to varying degrees from the social, minority, ecological, or diversity models of disability. In doing so, they coalesce around three general themes: (a) critical disability identity theory, (b) discrimination and prejudice, and (c) health disparities in the context of disability.

P. B. Perrin. Diversity and Social Justice in Disability: The Heart and Soul of Rehabilitation Psychology. In: Rehabilitation Psychology, v. 64, 2019, p. 105–110 (adapted).

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