ABSTRACT
This chapter considers rehabilitation in relation to more than one issue, and from the perspectives of diverse actors across two fields. It begins with reference to large-scale historical events and policy developments, charting complex legacies and their influences on notions of rehabilitation and service provision. Understanding rehabilitation in the fullest sense engenders tracing the dynamic and multi-faceted influences between historical legacies, paradigms and professional cultures, through to nascent changes in peoples' lives. The RNR Model and the Acute Care Model both represent or fall within the ambit of correctionalism and the medical model. It is no surprise, then, that psychologists, doctors and scientists have been the main proponents of this. Alternatively, the GLM and the Recovery Model represent strengths-based perspectives centred on the process and social ecology of change. However, the contributions of the helping professions, especially social work and developmental psychology are worthy of mention in association with the development of these theories and models.
