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Rejection
"Rejection, perhaps by family, neighbours, community, society, service workers"
This is a Hinge Wound and leads directly or indirectly to all subsequent wounds.
This is a common reaction by people who come into contact with someone seen as deviant by their society.
They reject the person by refusing to respond to them as they would to someone valued by them, or seen as neutral.
Examples include:
 | Rejection by parents of their newborn child who is seen as impaired. |
| Exclusion of behaviourally challenging pupils from the normal school system. |
| Forcing people out of their homes because of differences between valued/powerful and unvalued/powerless groups in society. |
| Refusal to communicate with the person who is being rejected. |
| Refusal to help a person who is being rejected. |
| Denial of medical services to devalued groups. |
Rejection as a Hinge Wound
Rejection leads on directly to four further wounds:
Click on the above links to review these wounds.
Social Role Valorization
A scientific explanation of societal devaluation of groups & individuals.
How this happens and how it might be changed.
Diligio
An education and training agency using SRV principles.
A not-for-profit organization.