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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Medical Xpress

National study finds loneliness and isolation are back to pre-pandemic levels, but still high, for older adults

Loneliness and isolation among older Americans have mostly returned to pre-pandemic rates, but that still means more than one third of people age 50 to 80 feel lonely, and nearly as many feel isolated ...
CNN

CDC isolation guidelines for Covid-19 haven’t changed yet. Here’s what you need to know

California and Oregon recently became the first states to break with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how long a person infected with Covid-19 should isolate, saying that people ...