Over 235,000 people couch-surf, stay in emergency shelters, or live on the street in Canada
every year. But lack of housing security is just one barrier faced by people who are …

This chapter constitutes a reflexive account, necessary to clarify the theoretical assumptions,
the researcher's characteristics, and the methods employed. First of all, I will begin by …

In the USA, thousands of young people labelled as 'troubled teens' are placed in therapeutic
boarding schools every year. Therapeutic boarding schools are private self-contained …

As other scholars have noted, the creation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities (CRPD) marked a paradigm shift in global disability politics. For the first time in …

This chapter focuses on the efforts of people who identify as users and survivors of
psychiatric services and people living with psychosocial disabilities to combat the largely …