Rethinking youth wellbeing : critical perspectives / Katie Wright, Julie McLeod, editors.
| Other author | Wright, Katie (Katie Jane), editor. |
| Other author | McLeod, Julie, 1958- editor. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Singapore ; New York : Springer, [2015] |
| Copyright Date | ©2015 |
| Description | 1 online resource (xi, 222 pages) : color illustrations |
| Supplemental Content | EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1 Inventing Youth Wellbeing; References; 2 To Be Well Is to Be Not Unwell: The New Battleground Inside Our Children's Heads; Introduction; The Study; The Twenty Five; Catch-22; Boy Interrupted; Being Well; Conclusion; References; 3 Vulnerability and Wellbeing in Educational Settings: The Implications of a Therapeutic Approach to Social Justice; Introduction; The Rise of "Vulnerability" in Concerns About Inequality; Psychologization, Therapeutic Culture and Therapization; From Psychologization to Therapization. |
| Contents | The Therapization of Social Justice: Psycho-emotional Aspects of Inequality; Implications for Educational Practices; Implications for Empowering Approaches to Wellbeing; Conclusions; References; 4 The Limits of Wellbeing; Introduction; Conceptualizing Youth Wellbeing and Mental Health; Conceptualizing Youth; A Relational Approach to Mental Health and Youth; Challenges to Mental Health; Performing Health; Life as a Project; The Precarious Nexus Between Education and Work; Managing Complexity; Concluding Remarks; References. |
| Contents | 5 Constructions of Young Women's Health and Wellbeing in Neoliberal Times: A Case Study of the HPV Vaccination Program in AustraliaIntroduction; Health-as-Wellbeing and the Production of Healthy Citizenship; HPV, HPV Vaccination and the National Vaccination Promotional Campaign; Research Methodology and Theoretical Approach; Theme I: Personal Responsibility and Choice in a Postfeminist Era; Theme II: Risk Reduction and the Production of "Knowledge"; Conclusion; References; 6 Young People, Sexual Pleasure and Sexual Health Services: What Happens When "Good Sex" Is Bad for Your Health? |
| Contents | IntroductionThe Policy Context in England; Study Outline: Young People's Understandings of "Good Sex"; Good Relationship = Good Sex?: Bridging the Gaps Between Research, Policy and Practice; Conclusion: Safe Spaces and Institutional Contexts; References; 7 "I'd Just Cut Myself to Kill the Pain": Seeing Sense in Young Women's Self-Injury; Introduction; Conceptualizing Self-Injury; Method; Childhood Trauma: The Body's Boundaries; Sexual Abuse; Abandonment; Dissociation and Self-Injury; In Search of Control; Conclusion; References. |
| Contents | 8 Rethinking Role-Play for Health and Wellbeing: Creating a Pedagogy of Possibility; Introduction; Trojan Stories; Deconstructing Health Narratives; Capturing the Discourse at Play; Shifting Genre; Transgressive Talk; Constructing a Pedagogy of Possibility; Conclusion; References; 9 Wellbeing and Schools: Exploring the Normative Dimensions; Introduction; Wellbeing and the Goals of Schooling; Facts, Values and Implicit Normativity; Normative Dimensions of Wellbeing in Schools; Wellbeing in Schools for the National Health Agenda; Wellbeing in Schools for Educational Achievement. |
| Abstract | This volume offers a critical rethinking of the construct of youth wellbeing, stepping back from taken-for-granted and psychologically inflected understandings. Wellbeing has become a catchphrase in educational, health and social care policies internationally, informing a range of school programs and social interventions and increasingly shaping everyday understandings of young people. Drawing on research by established and emerging scholars in Australia, Singapore and the UK, the book critically examines the myriad effects of dominant discourses of wellbeing on the one hand, and the social an. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 19, 2014). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Wright, Katie. Rethinking Youth Wellbeing : Critical Perspectives. Singapore : Springer Singapore, ©2014 9789812871879 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9789812871886 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9812871888 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9789812871893 (print) |
| ISBN | 9812871896 |
| ISBN | 9789811011825 (print) |
| ISBN | 9811011826 |
| ISBN | (print) |
| Standard identifier# | 10.1007/978-981-287-188-6 |
| Stock number | com.springer.onix.9789812871886 Springer Nature |
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