TY - JOUR
T1 - Youth locked in time and space? Defining features of social withdrawal and practice implications
AU - Wong, Victor
N1 - Funding Information:
I would like to acknowledge the support of two research grants for this piece of work: the Faculty Research Grant of Hong Kong Baptist University (#FRG/05-06/I-01-30-05-101) and the General Research Fund of the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (#HKBU244707-32-07-447).
PY - 2009/9
Y1 - 2009/9
N2 - This paper is vested with the purpose of critically discussing the defining features of social withdrawal by drawing references from studies in Hong Kong and Japan in particular. With the use of empirical data, the practice implications for working with young people in acute social withdrawal are examined with specific reference to the four defining features, namely, time, place, social relations and social status. It is argued that unless the defining features and the implied directions for measures and practice are thoroughly addressed, personal troubles and social ills that give rise to the downward spiral of withdrawal as a personal experience and social phenomenon cannot be broken.
AB - This paper is vested with the purpose of critically discussing the defining features of social withdrawal by drawing references from studies in Hong Kong and Japan in particular. With the use of empirical data, the practice implications for working with young people in acute social withdrawal are examined with specific reference to the four defining features, namely, time, place, social relations and social status. It is argued that unless the defining features and the implied directions for measures and practice are thoroughly addressed, personal troubles and social ills that give rise to the downward spiral of withdrawal as a personal experience and social phenomenon cannot be broken.
KW - social withdrawal
KW - hikikomori
KW - young people
KW - adolescent mental health
KW - social exclusion
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=70350639113&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/02650530903102692
DO - 10.1080/02650530903102692
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:70350639113
SN - 0265-0533
VL - 23
SP - 337
EP - 352
JO - Journal of Social Work Practice
JF - Journal of Social Work Practice
IS - 3
ER -
