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Cultivating human beings, not human dongs: Challenging discources of self care

Little, J. Nicole; (2016) Cultivating human beings, not human dongs: Challenging discources of self care. International Journal of Social Pedagogy , 15 (3) pp. 124-138. 10.14324/111.444.ijsp.2017.09. Gold open access

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Abstract

To what do we owe the project of human doings over human beings? Self-care has long been sanctioned as the root of Child and Youth Care (CYC) practitioner resilience. This argument is faulty in its individualistic and “doing” ways. Instead, the author proposes that we need to connect with vulnerability and love as a means to accomplish self and other-care. Critiquing contemporary discourses of self-care, the author draws on Buddhist philosophy and Radically Open Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (RO-DBT) as a means to deconstruct this.

Type: Article
Title: Cultivating human beings, not human dongs: Challenging discources of self care
Open access status: An open access publication
DOI: 10.14324/111.444.ijsp.2017.09
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ijsp.2017.09
Language: English
Keywords: Self-care, RO-DBT, child and youth care, vulnerability
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1561368
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