Isolation as a form of discipline: how should schools manage poor student behaviour?

Teenagers testing boundaries is often seen as being due to defiance, bad judgement, or bad parenting. There are more ...
Forbes

Combating Isolation For Adults With Intellectual And Developmental Disabilities

Social isolation and loneliness have been pervasive public health concerns in America, especially impacting adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Both mental and physical ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Social Isolation Linked to Increased Mortality in Patients With COPD

Social isolation significantly increases the risk of mortality in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), highlighting the need for targeted interventions to address this issue.

Exploring the lasting harms of social isolation in adolescence

How do social experiences during adolescence promote empathetic, helpful behavior? In a study appearing in eNeuro, Yi Zuo, ...
Medscape

Lonely Planet: How the World Is Fighting Social Isolation

Loneliness/social isolation isn’t just a transient emotion or situation, it’s turned into a global crisis with serious public health consequences. In 2023, then–US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, ...
The Hill

There’s a social isolation epidemic. But it can be fixed.

Amid the explosive spread of the omicron variant, much of the conversation around COVID-19 has focused on the potential health consequences of getting together. But not enough has focused on the ...