The Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology and Disability (Oxford Library of Psychology)

Roughly 61 million people with disabilities live in the United States, and there are many more millions of people with disabilities around the world.Not surprisingly, differences among and between people with disabilities are often as notable as differences between people with and without disabilities. And, while the lack of homogeneity among people with disabilities makes creating a valid taxonomy under this term difficult, if not impossible, there is commonality among and between people with disabilities that justifies an authoritative resource on positive psychology and disability.That is, they have experienced discrimination and marginalization as a function of their disability. This expanded and updated volume assembles chapters by leading scholars in the fields of disability and positive psychology to provide a comprehensive synthesis of the state of the combined field of positive psychology and disability.Chapters are organized into thematic sections, beginning with an introduct