Cultivating human beings, not human doings: challenging discourses of self care

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...

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Main Author: J. Nicole Little
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: CELCIS 2016-12-01
Series:Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care
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description 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.
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Cultivating human beings, not human doings: challenging discourses of self care
Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care
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title Cultivating human beings, not human doings: challenging discourses of self care
title_full Cultivating human beings, not human doings: challenging discourses of self care
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title_full_unstemmed Cultivating human beings, not human doings: challenging discourses of self care
title_short Cultivating human beings, not human doings: challenging discourses of self care
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