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Social isolation

Clinical psychology

Michele Procacci, Antonio Semerari

Product: Book

Trim size in cm: 17x24cm

Pages: 352

ISBN: 978-88-590-1912-1

Publication date: 01/09/2019


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Patients suffering from social isolation are both poorly understood and poorly treated. This psychopathology is the final result of a complex series of components that combine with each other to varying degrees and can include: anxiety, depression, anhedonia, rejection sensitivity, neurocognitive problems, problems in mentalization and social cognition, tendency to paranoid ideation, thought disorders, chronic feelings of non-belonging and non-sharing, lack of social skills. The first five essays in this volume are intended to provide an overall picture of this complexity.

The five essays in the second part are aimed more at clinicians and serve to deepen the identification and evaluation of social isolation in different mental disorders. They answer questions such as: is the presence of social isolation the precursor of a disorder or does it constitute a part of it? Some cases are reported to explain the evaluation and treatment methods.

The volume closes with an appendix that reviews the evaluation tools that can be used by the clinician in the processes of diagnosing forms of social isolation, both in patients suffering from mental disorders and in the rest of the population.


Introduction (Michele Procacci and Antonio Semerari)

FIRST PART: PSYCHOLOGY
CH.1 - Social isolation in childhood and adolescence. Conceptualization, development and connections to psychopathology (Robert J. Coplan, Stefania Sette and Will E. Hipson)
CH.2 - Neurobiology and neuroscience of social isolation (Stefano Luigi Porcelli)
CH.3 – Losing contact: social isolation and the evolutionary theory of motivation (Maurizio Brasini)
CH.4 - Dimensions of social sharing (Livia Colle)
CH.5 - Social isolation and new technology: opportunities or setbacks? (Nicola Marsigli, Elena Grassi, Caterina Parisio and Michele Procacci)

SECOND PART: CLINIC
CH.6 - Social isolation and Autism spectrum disorders: clinical examples and treatments (Giuseppe Maurizio Arduino and Roberto Keller)
CH.7 - Social isolation and mood disorders: clinical examples and treatments (Brunetto De Sanctis, Stefania Fadda and Francesco Mancini)
CH.8 - Social isolation and personality disorders (Antonio Semerari, Antonino Carcione and Michele Procacci)
CH.9 - Social isolation and psychotic disorders (Sarah I. Tarbox-Berry)
CH.10 - Social isolation: from conceptualization to treatment (Maria Pontillo, Prisca Gargiullo, Ornella Santonastaso, Maria Cristina Tata, Stefano Vicari and Giuseppe Nicolò)

APPENDIX
Evaluation tools for different types of social isolation (Paola Mallozzi and Valentina Silvestre)