Training Institute Publication Series (TIPS)

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TIPS, Volume 15, No. 5 & 6, and Volume 16, No. 1, 1996

Wolf P. Wolfensberger

• The Abortion Scene

• Abortion History

• Abortion Statistics

• Who Gets Abortions?

• Who Does the Aborting?

• All the Same to Me

• Promotion! Advocacy for Abortion

• Brave New World

• Advocacy Against Abortion

• Mixed News on Advocacy for or Against Abortion

• Attempts to Compel Health Workers to Participate in Abortions in Violation of Their Conscience

• Issues of Coherency in Abortion Positions

• Abortion Protests & Abortion Clinic Confrontations

• Prenatal Tests & Abortion

• The Interpretation of Abortifacients as Contraceptives, & Their Injuries to Women

• The RU 486 Abortion Method

• Other Toxic Drug Cocktail Abortion Methods

• Partial Birth Abortion--& Soon After It, a Reckoning!

• The Damages Abortion Does to Women

• Utilitarianism in Abortion

• Abortion as Part of the New Eugenics

• The Links Among Artificial Baby-Making, Abortion, & Other Deathmaking

• The Links Between Abortion, Sexual Immorality & Pornography

• Links Among Abortion & Yet Other Deathmaking

• Deceptions & Detoxification of/About Abortion, Mostly via Language/Idiom Manipulation

• Abortion & the Law

• Miscellaneous Abortion News

• Resources About Abortion

• Deathmaking of Children

• Enmity Toward Reproduction

• Private Infanticide & Infant Junking

• Medical Infant Deathmaking

• Child-Killing & Junking

• The Utilitarian Motive in Various Kinds of Deathmakings

• Social Role Valorization (SRV)

• Miscellaneous News About Social Role Valorization (SRV)

• Problematic Pronouncements About Normality, Normalization or Social Role Valorization

• Miscellaneous Human Service News

• Generations ("Reflection Upon Visiting a Local Nursing Home" by Susan Ruff)

• Miscellaneous News
TIPS, Volume 16, No. 2, 3 & 4, 1996

Wolf P. Wolfensberger

• Poverty & the Poor

• The Gulf Between the Haves & Have-Nots

• Medieval Robber Knights (Songs)

• Clara, Clara, Vere de Vere (Tennyson, 1842, poem addressed to privileged & heartless Clara Vere de Vere)

• The Transfer of Wealth From the Lower to the Higher Social Strata

• "Corporate Welfare"

• Subsidies to Better-Off Citizens

• Wealth Transfer via Taxing Policies

• Pension Thefts

• Income Inequalities

• Wealth Redistribution via Insurance Scams, Thefts & Collapses

• Investment Scams

• Banking Scams

• From the Frying Pan Into the Fire

• Miscellaneous Transfer Mechanisms & Scams

• Conclusion to Wealth Transfer

• The Gulf Between Rich & Poor Nations

• Homelessness (Includes inventory of the homeless common health & mental problems)

• No Room in the Inn (Sue Pressley, homeless woman, Atlanta, GA?)

• Mitchell Park (Donal Babbit, 1980s, homeless poet, California)

• The Devil & Me We Can't Agree ... (Old Salvation Army song)

• Crime

• Robbing Peter to Rob Paul

• Punishment

• More Ship of Fools

• The Jail & Prison Scene

• In London, & Within a Mile, I Ween ... (Poet John Tayler, ca. 1630)

• Judicial Killing

• Slavery

• Morality in Society

• PERVERSION ALERT #28 (Looking at things "from the bottom up")

• Religion in Society

• The Interface of Religion & Human Service

• The Family

• Artificial Baby-Making

• Enmity Against the Family

• PERVERSION ALERT #29 (UN General Assembly, 1989, Convention on the Rights of a Child)

• Hostility Toward Children (Kinderfeindlichkeit)

• Impact of Family Breakdown on Children

• Other News About Families

• List of "Say" and "Don't Say" (Adoptive Families of America)

• The Collapse of Finance, Society & Polity in the US & Elsewhere & the Ascendancy of Military Rule

• War & Preparation for War

• Palmstrom Becomes a Citizen (Christian Morgenstern, German poet, 1871-1914)

• Philanthropy News

• The Two Festivals (Christian Morgenstern, German poet, 1871-1914)

• Human Service-Related News

• PERVERSION ALERT #30 (Dangers of home care for impaired people under public funding, ex. Medicaid)

• Major Study Topics for Human Service Moral Leadership Competency
TIPS, Volume 16, No. 5, 1997

Wolf P. Wolfensberger

• The Animal-Imaging of Humans

• Animal-Imaging by Person-Animal Juxtaposition

• Helping Mouth

• Creating Juxtapositions Between Devalued People & Animal-Imaged Facilities

• Animal-Imaging by Bringing Effigies of Animals Into Juxtaposition With Devalued People

• Attachment of Animal Effigies to Discourse About Devalued People

• Discourse About (Devalued) People that Implies That They Are Animals

• Animal Imagery in the Names of Services to, or Service-Related Resources for, Devalued People

• Animal Imagery in the Etiquetting of Devalued People

• Symbols/Signs for/About Animals Are Juxtaposed to Symbols/Signs for/About Devalued Humans

• Animal Imagery in Other Discourse About Devalued People

• Actors Behave in a Fashion That Reveals That They View Certain People as Animals/Animalistic

• Animal-Imaging by Other, or Multiple, Means

• Will Old Watch Dogs Learn New Tricks?

• We Kick You Not!

• Conclusion to Animal Imagery

• The Social Advocacies

• The Need for Personal Advocacy

• The Need for Collective Advocacy

• The Conflict of Interest Issue

• Pie Behind the Dike

• Citizen Advocacy

• A Bureaucrat's Vision of Citizen Advocacy

• Citizen Advocacy is Like a Cup of Tea-Isn't It?

• CITIZEN ADVOCATES ARE: (article from ARC newsletter, Lincoln, NB)

• Advocacy by a Collectivity for a Collectivity

• Other Social Advocacy Forms

• Sufferers From Ingrown Toenails, Unite!

• Miscellaneous

• Perversion or Subversion of Advocacy

• How Bad Guys Respond to Good Guys

• Help Endangered Recluses to Remain Reclusive!

• Miscellaneous Human Service News
TIPS, Volume 16, No. 6, and Volume 17, No. 1, 2, & 3, 1997

Wolf P. Wolfensberger

• Some Issues of Linguistics in General

• Miscellaneous Generic Language Issues, Practices, or Vignettes

• Modernistic Language Degradation

• A Few Language Traps & Degradation Strategies

• Hidden Assumptions

• Violations of "Face Value"

• Code Language

• Sloganeering

• Mystification

• Euphemistic Detoxifying Discourse

• Aggrandizing Euphemication

• Positive (Craze) Term Piracy

• Deceptive Toxification/Dysphemization

• Certain Contemporary Societal & Cultural Domains in Which Ideologies Produce Language Degradation

• The Discourse of the Political Correctness Culture

• Problematic, Ridiculous or PC Language About Racial Differences

• Gender Babble

• Purple Foulmouthedness, Especially in the Media Culture

• Specific Examples of Other & Miscellaneous Contemporary Language Degradations

• Conclusion to the Generic Language Issues

• Language About & in Human Services, & About Socially Devalued (Including Impaired) People

• The Human Service Talk Game

• Human Service Code Language or Mystification

• An Orientation to Language About People

• The History of Certain Terms Referring to Societally Devalued Conditions & to Human Service

• (Ridiculous) Attempts to Pretend That Human Impairments Do Not Exist, or Do Not Matter, or Should Never be Referred to, or That an Impairment is Much Less Severe Than It Is

• Dismissing the Reality of an Impairment by Referring to Identifying Designations as Mere "Labels"

• Concealing the Nature of an Impairment Behind a Smokescreen of "Special Needs" Euphemisms

• Reinterpreting an Impairment as no More Than a Shortcoming in Accommodations by Others & the Physical Environment

• Miscellaneous Ways of Circumlocuting the Fact That Someone is What Used to be Called "Idiotic," &/or That This Has Major Problematic Life Consequences

• The Concealing of the Nature of an Impairment Behind a Smokescreen of

• Calling an Impaired Person "Challenged," "Inconvenienced," or "Disadvantaged"

• Interpreting an Impairment as an Asset

• Miscellaneous Other or Mixed Obscurantist Circumlocutions of Human Impairments

• Other Unsatisfactory, Problematic, Internally Incoherent or Even Ridiculous, Language About Human Impairments

• Using Terms, Such as "Disabled," That Signify Vastly More Impairment Than There is

• The Down's vs. Down Controversy

• The Controversy Around "Cripple" Terms

• Miscellaneous Other Problematic, Incoherent or Ridiculous Language About Human Impairment

• Other Absurdities in Defining, Naming or Describing Societally Devalued Human Characteristics & People Who Have Them

• Problematic Issues of Grammar of Discourse About Impaired or Sick People

• Problematic Formulations of "Having" Devalued Conditions

• So-called "People First" Language

• The Peculiar Phrasing That Someone is "With" a Devalued Condition

• The Delegitimization of Discourse About Devalued Conditions as Abstractions

• Other Problematic Grammatical & Word Form Formulations

• Problematic, Degraded or Even Ridiculous Language About Service Activities, Practices, or Programs

• Peculiar, Bizarre or Euphemistic Names of Service Settings & Agencies

• Peculiar-Or Even Insane--Practices in Naming Advocacy-Type and Related Organizations of or For Devalued People

• Miscellaneous Other Issues of Language & Communication About Human Impairment, Devalued Conditions, or Human Service

• Handibabble

• PC-Related or Code-Related Points

• Language Related to Syndromes or Problem Conditions

• Language About Service Practices

• Language About Servers

• Hard-to-Classify Language Points

• Miscellaneous Concluding Points

• "Counter-Discourse" by Impaired People

• The Practice of Language Coercion, Territion & Policing, & the Problems Thereof

• Spoofs of Contemporary PC & Related Language Practices

• Certain Dilemmas of Discoursing About Societally Devalued Conditions/People

• The Irrationality of Propitiation

• The Futility or Counterproductiveness of Devalued People Being Nasty to

• Those Who are Prepared to Listen to Them or Even be Their Allies

• Miscellaneous Other Dilemmas of Discoursing About Societally Devalued

• Conditions/People

• Conclusion to Issues of Language About Devalued People & Human Services

• Miscellaneous Human Service News
TIPS, Volume 17, No. 4, 5, & 6, 1997/1998

Wolf P. Wolfensberger

• Poverty & the Poor

• The Gulf Between the Haves & Have Nots

• The Worship of Mammon (Thomas Hood)

• When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich (Song from "Finian's Rainbow," 1947 musical)

• The Transfer of Wealth Upward

• Homelessness & the Welfare Helter-Skelter Shelter System

• The Mother of All Hobo Songs!

• Where is My Boy Tonight or Where is My Wandering Boy Tonight (Hobo song)

• Singing the Song of Their Traffic ... (Song by hobo poet Harry Kemp)

• Hobo Jokes

• Hobo History

• Crime

• Punishment

• More Ships of Fools

• The Jail & Prison Scene

• Judicial Killings

• Morality in Society & Public Life

• Religion in Society

• General/Miscellaneous Points

• Bad News for Modem Man

• Decline in Traditional or Explicit Religious Beliefs

• Religious or Cult Crazes

• Idolatry

• Superstitions

• Religious Intolerance

• The Interface of Religion & Human Service (Weltanschauungen)

• Philanthropy

• The Family & Children

• Hatred of Marriage

• Breakdown of Marriage

• The Undermining of Parenting

• Parental Loss of Control

• Impact of Family Breakdown on Children

• The Low Valuation, Junking & Exploitation of Children

• The Child Welfare/Foster Care System

• Adoption

• Miscellaneous Other Items on the Family or Children

• Grist for the Mills of the Men Haters

• The Collapse of the Culture of Modernism & Its Social Institutions

• The Collapse of the Democratic Process

• Collapse of Civic Institutions

• The Tottering Financial Structures

• The Spectre of Military Dictatorship

• Entitlement Mentalities & Litigiousness

• Disfunctional Formalization as a Response to Disfunctionality

• Miscellaneous Collapses

• Violence in Society

• War & Preparations for War

• Advocacy-Related News

• Human Service History

• News Related to Social Role Valorization (SRV) & Human Performance

• Miscellaneous Human Service-Related News

• The Invasion of the Body Snatchers

• Miscellaneous News