Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Human Rights
- The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Boxes
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- The Core International Human Rights Instruments and Their Monitoring Bodies
- Universal Human Rights Instruments
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Glossary of United Nations and Psychology Acronyms in the Handbook
- Introduction
- Part I History of Human Rights
- Part II The Intersection of Psychology and Human Rights
- 5 The Intersection of Psychology and Human Rights in Addressing Racism, Discrimination, and Xenophobia
- 6 Poverty and the Human Rights of Children and Youth through the Lenses of Psychology and Sociology
- 7 Labor Rights as Human Rights
- 8 Whose Culture? Challenging the Idea of an Opposition between Women’s Human Rights and the Right to Culture
- 9 Human Rights
- 10 Child Rights
- 11 Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Part III Contemporary Issues in Psychology and Human Rights
- Part IV Teaching, Research, and Training in Psychology and Human Rights
- Part V Future Directions
- Index
- References
11 - Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Its Nexus with Mental Health and Psychosocial Well-Being
from Part II - The Intersection of Psychology and Human Rights
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 October 2020
- The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Human Rights
- The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Boxes
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- The Core International Human Rights Instruments and Their Monitoring Bodies
- Universal Human Rights Instruments
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Glossary of United Nations and Psychology Acronyms in the Handbook
- Introduction
- Part I History of Human Rights
- Part II The Intersection of Psychology and Human Rights
- 5 The Intersection of Psychology and Human Rights in Addressing Racism, Discrimination, and Xenophobia
- 6 Poverty and the Human Rights of Children and Youth through the Lenses of Psychology and Sociology
- 7 Labor Rights as Human Rights
- 8 Whose Culture? Challenging the Idea of an Opposition between Women’s Human Rights and the Right to Culture
- 9 Human Rights
- 10 Child Rights
- 11 Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Part III Contemporary Issues in Psychology and Human Rights
- Part IV Teaching, Research, and Training in Psychology and Human Rights
- Part V Future Directions
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter’s purpose is to summarize and analyze current states of the rights of persons with disabilities and the nexus of these rights with mental health and psychosocial well-being, particularly focusing on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It describes the key rights in CRPD and analyzes the interrelationship between CRPD and SDGs. The chapter also presents the history of global efforts to protect and promote the rights of persons with disabilities as well as recent and current developments. Persons with disabilities, including persons with mental health conditions and psychosocial disabilities, have faced numerous barriers and violations of human rights for a long time. The adoption of CRPD, coupled with SDGs and other key global agreements, provides great momentum for realizing their rights. The chapter concludes that respecting diversity, eliminating social barriers (including attitudinal ones), being attentive to the silent majority and minorities and reaching out to unheard voices, enabling supportive environment where individuals support each other based on needs instead of their attributes, and establishing and incorporating indicators pertaining to mental health and well-being into the monitoring efforts of sustainable development, peace and security, and overall human rights together with mental health perspectives are critical.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Human Rights , pp. 164 - 180Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020