Social Isolation - An Interdisciplinary View

Book Abstract

This Book ?Social Isolation - An Interdisciplinary View? focuses on an increasingly current phenomenon in various countries around the world. It offers an interdisciplinary point of view with a broad and, at the same time, in-depth vision of the various aspects that can contribute to better understanding social isolation. The authors, who represent different disciplines and belong to different countries of the world, offer high-pro?le scienti?c contributions with new perspectives in the ?eld of social security thanks to the originality of their ideas, theories, research, scienti?c results and suggestions. Understanding all this opens up new horizons towards the new frontiers of knowledge. ?I go out. You want to come? The insulation would be too heavy; desperate and crazy on the deserted streets. To demand a destiny.? Social isolation may be considered as a risk factor for health. It may contribute to the development of a mental health disease. In this chapter, social withdrawal is de?ned as voluntary isolation prolonged in time that involves the cessation of any form of social relationship and contact with people and the outside. Clinical psychology,psycho-educational interventions, and social neuroscience research tries to understand what happens when social isolation is experienced. Therefore an interdisciplinary perspective can help to better understand this phenomenon.The deepening of these aspects can help to create new forms of theoretical perspective and of a clinical and psycho-educational intervention to better arrange for this new type of maladaptive condition.