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Using a Multidimensional Model to Analyze Context and Enhance Personal Outcomes
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Shogren, Karrie A.; Luckasson, Ruth; Schalock, Robert L. – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2020
This article describes a multidimensional model of context that identifies, defines, and explains three key properties of context: multilevel, multifactorial, and interactive. The use of this model to drive a context-based enhancement cycle is also described. The enhancement cycle involves four steps: (a) identifying current interactions that…
Descriptors: Models, Context Effect, Interaction, Individual Development
The Responsibility to Build Contexts That Enhance Human Functioning and Promote Valued Outcomes for People with Intellectual Disability: Strengthening System Responsiveness
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Shogren, Karrie A.; Luckasson, Ruth; Schalock, Robert L. – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2018
This article describes a model that systems can use to build contexts that enhance human functioning and promote valued outcomes for individuals with intellectual disability (ID). Our premise is that that systems have a responsibility to build contexts that enhance human functioning and promote valued outcomes for people with ID, and that this…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Context Effect, Models, Goal Orientation
Considering Context: An Integrative Concept for Promoting Outcomes in the Intellectual Disability Field
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Shogren, Karrie A. – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2013
In light of the rapid evolution of research, policy, and practice in the intellectual disability (ID) field resulting from shifts in our conceptualization of disability and in frameworks for the diagnosis and classification of ID, systematic consideration of the multiple, interrelated contextual factors that impact research, policy, and practice…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Context Effect, Research, Policy
Supported Decision Making: A Synthesis of the Literature across Intellectual Disability, Mental Health, and Aging
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Shogren, Karrie A.; Wehmeyer, Michael L.; Lassmann, Heather; Forber-Pratt, Anjali J. – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2017
Supported decision making (SDM) has begun to receive significant attention as means to enable people to exercise autonomy and self-determination over decisions about their life. Practice frameworks that can be used to promote the provision of supports for decision making are needed. This paper integrates the literature across intellectual and…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Self Determination, Personal Autonomy, Developmental Disabilities
Causal Agency Theory: Reconceptualizing a Functional Model of Self-Determination
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Shogren, Karrie A.; Wehmeyer, Michael L.; Palmer, Susan B.; Forber-Pratt, Anjali J.; Little, Todd J.; Lopez, Shane – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2015
This paper introduces Causal Agency Theory, an extension of the functional model of self-determination. Causal Agency Theory addresses the need for interventions and assessments pertaining to selfdetermination for all students and incorporates the significant advances in understanding of disability and in the field of positive psychology since the…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Self Determination, Disabilities, Psychology
A Social-Ecological Analysis of the Self-Determination Literature
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Shogren, Karrie A. – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2013
This paper uses a social-ecological lens to examine self-determination research, attempting to organize what is known (and unknown) about contextual factors that have the potential to impact the development and expression of self-determined behavior in people with disabilities across multiple ecological systems. Identifying and categorizing the…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Developmental Disabilities, Self Determination, Context Effect
A Social-Ecological Analysis of the Self-Determination Literature
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Shogren, Karrie A. – Grantee Submission, 2013
This paper uses a social-ecological lens to examine self-determination research, attempting to organize what is known (and unknown) about contextual factors that have the potential to impact the development and expression of self-determined behavior in individuals with disabilities across multiple ecological systems. Identifying and categorizing…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Context Effect