Keyword: «social advocacy»

The article focuses on priority theoretical models in social work with people with disabilities. The concept of social advocacy and the forms of rendering legal assistance to disabled people are revealed. For example, the implementation of the activities of public organizations of persons with disabilities and their cooperation with the Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation is considered such a model as empowerment. The vitalistic model of social work with the disabled is revealed as a way for a person to form the desire to reproduce and fulfill life as a biosocial being.