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Social Role Valorization                                                                                                                                                       This workshop provides an introduction to Social Role Valorization (SRV), using the core themes developed by Dr. Wolf Wolfensberger, considered to be one of the most influential thinkers in the field of mental retardation in the world. Dr. Wolfensberger’s work helped lay the foundation for many current human service trends, including integration, safeguarding of individual rights, and the deinstitutionalization movement.  Topics to be explored will include: the universality of social devaluation; the defining power of roles in people’s lives; strategies for pursuing socially valued roles, or at least less devalued roles, for devalued people, with an aim toward improving their life conditions; enhancement of people’s social images; and enhancement of people’s competencies.                                                                                                                                                         March 22-25, 2010                                                                                                           Charleston, WV