Announcing the publication of a new SRV Journal
Statement of Purpose
Social Role Valorization (SRV), when well applied, has the potential to help societally devalued people to gain greater access to the good things of life, and to be spared at least some of the negative effects of social devaluation.
Toward this end, the purposes of this journal include: 1) disseminating information about SRV; 2) informing readers of the relevance of SRV in addressing the devaluation of people in society generally and in human services particularly; 3) fostering, extending and deepening dialogue about, and understanding of, SRV; and 4) encouraging the application of SRV, as well as SRV-related research. We see this journal as a helpful addition to the international SRV training culture.
We intend the information provided in this journal to be of help to those in relationship with devalued people, those specifically involved in service to others (both formally and informally; and at all levels, including by family, friends, advocates, direct care workers, managers, trainers, etc.), as well as researchers and educators in the academic community, to advocate for, and to provide, more valued life conditions and more relevant and coherent service. We believe that interested persons and ‘servers’ can do this primarily by helping devalued people to attain and maintain valued social roles. Over the long run, such efforts will improve the life situations overall of vulnerable people, increasing their access to the ‘good things of life.’ We sincerely hope that this journal will contribute to such efforts.
The SRV Journal is published under the auspices of the SRV Implementation Project (SRVIP). The mission of the SRVIP is to: confront social devaluation in all its forms, including the deathmaking of vulnerable people; support positive action consistent with Social Role Valorization; and promote the work of the formulator of SRV, Professor Wolf Wolfensberger of the Syracuse University Training Institute for Human Service Planning, Leadership & Change Agentry.
Editorial Policy
Informed and open discussions of SRV, and even constructive debates about it, help to promote its dissemination, relevance and application. Therefore, we encourage people with a range of experience with SRV to submit items for consideration of publication. We hope those with much experience in teaching or implementing SRV, as well as those who are just beginning to learn about it, will contribute to the Journal.
We encourage readers and writers in a variety of roles and from a variety of human service backgrounds to subscribe and to contribute. We do expect that writers who submit items will have at least a basic understanding of SRV, gained for example by attendance at a multi-day SRV workshop, by studying relevant resources, or both. (Some easily available resources are listed below.)
We are particularly interested in receiving submissions from family members, friends and servers of devalued people who are trying to put the ideas of SRV into practice, even if they do not consider themselves as ‘writers.’ Members of our editorial boards will be available to help contributors with articles accepted for publication. The journal has an academic peer review section for those who are interested.
Information for Submissions
We welcome well-reasoned and clearly-written submissions. The language used in submitted items should be clear and descriptive. We encourage the use of ordinary grammar and vocabulary that a typical reader would understand. The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association is one good and easily available general style guide. Academic authors should follow the standards of their field.
Submissions are reviewed by members of the editorial board, the editorial advisory board, or both. Submissions may be made on paper, or electronically with an e-mail attachment, to the addresses below.
Examples of submission topics include but are not limited to: SRV as relevant to a wide variety of human services; descriptions and analyses of social devaluation and wounding; descriptions and analyses of the impact(s) of valued social roles; illustrations of particular SRV themes; research into and development of the theory of SRV and its particular themes; critique of SRV; analysis of new developments from an SRV perspective; success stories, as well as struggles and lessons learned, in trying to implement SRV; interviews; reflection and opinion pieces; news analyses from an SRV perspective; book or movie reviews and notices from an SRV perspective.
Marc Tumeinski, Editor
/The SRV Journal/
74 Elm Street
Worcester, MA 01609 USA
508 752 3670
journal@srvip.org
http://www.srvip.org/