title: [Self-competence as a condition for self-determination in disabled women and girls for rehabilitation legal relations].
abstract: Self-competence is a keyword of modern reform legislation in public health and social policy in general and in disability law more specifically. The article defines self-competence from the perspective of constitutional law and describes the new provisions of Book 9 of the Social Code, SGB IX with relation to disabled women and girls. These new provisions are a response to new scientific analyses of the status of disabled women and girls. Their status is determined by multiple discrimination and by threat of sexual violence. Within this context self-competence means capacity for self-determination. Such an interpretation is in line with reforms in disability law, i. e. the adoption of anti-discrimination law. With this reform legislators pursue a shift in paradigm from the medical to the social model of disability. Such a paradigm shift demands new paths to be treaded in rehabilitation. Rehabilitation agencies have corresponding duties to protect and to promote.
authors.affiliation: Evangelische Fachhochschule RWL (Bochum), Fachbereich Heilpädagogik, Immanuel-Kant-Strasse 18-20, 44803 Bochum, Germany. degener@efh-bochum.de
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authors.lastname: Degener
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D016743:Mental Competency / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D008875:Middle Aged; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D011287:Prejudice; D012649:Self Concept; D012742:Sex Offenses / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D016387:Women's Health