Инклюзивное жизненное пространство для людей с ментальной инвалидностью: обзор литературы

Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Серия 12: Социология. 2025. Т. 18. № 1. С. 109–127.

Гурин М. Ю.

The focus on people with mental disabilities is due to the fact that this is the group in relation to which social distance is maintained by neurotypical members of society, and the practices aimed at constructing a more inclusive urban environment are mostly aimed at people with physical disabilities.

Aims and objectives of the study: Through the analysis of the corpus of articles to conceptualise the concept of “inclusive living environment”, to show the practices that contribute to the production and reproduction of inclusive living environment, to explicate the contradictions that complicate the process of assembling such a space.

Research methods: Analysis of review and empirical articles. Searching for articles through Google Scholar.

Inclusiveness of environments is influenced by both physical and social features of the environment in which people with mental disabilities find themselves. The need to balance independence and exclusion, control and freedom in the production and reproduction of an inclusive living environment for people with mental disability is demonstrated. Social inclusion is a foundation for well-being and a significant component of community inclusion. Its implementation through the construction of an inclusive living environment for people with mental disabilities, including through supported living programmes. Supported living is an inpatient replacement technology of social services, in the implementation of which people with mental disabilities can live together with other people with mental disabilities, or alone, but in any case, with full or partial support from social workers.

Building an inclusive living environment can be done both at the city level and at the level of specific programmes, but either way an important element of inclusion is to consider the voices of people with mental disabilities themselves in the process.

Keywords: социальная инклюзия, social inclusion, сопровождаемое проживание, люди с ментальной инвалидностью, инклюзивное проживание, supported living, people with mental disabilities, inclusive living environment, inclusive living, инклюзивное жизненное пространство

Publication based on the results of: The diversity of forms, effects and barriers to integration of modern Russian society in synchronic and diachronic dimensions (2025)