Computers, video games, and technological devices are part of young people's everyday lives. Hikikomori is a Japanese word describing a condition that mainly affects adolescents or young adults who live isolated from the world, cloistered within their parents' homes, locked in their bedrooms for days, months, or even years on end, and refusing to communicate even with their family. These patien...

This paper will focus on the works of one Japan's representative psychiatrists, Yomishi Kasahara, particularly his in 1970s which he proposed concept student apathy, and discuss how this work was carried over into a contemporary topic, study “Hikikomori.” Kasahara's well-known “Clinical Classification Depression” (Kasahara Kimura, 1975) described present state patients with Type III as “they do...

This study aimed at exploring the hikikomori experience of Italian young adults to detect some psychosocial patterns hikikomori. A phenomenological analysis was conducted on narratives 17 individuals with (9 men, 18?39 aged), who posted their stories social isolation via an online forum. The detected ten themes synthesizing psychological structure participants? lived experience, which were grou...

Hikikomori (a severe form of social withdrawal) is a serious mental health issue. A family approach the initial step to support hikikomori; thus effective intervention programs are warranted. We recently developed 5-day program (120 min weekly) based on Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) and Community Reinforcement Family Training (CRAFT). In present study, we modified 3-day (180 fortnightly), exam...

Hikikomori is one of the most common social problems in Japan. This research's object anime series NHK ni Youkoso !, with 24 episodes, which premiered from July to December 2006. The author uses observation method note-taking techniques collect data, and data analysis written descriptively. results this study contained 11 forms behaviour that studied, namely: hikikomori perpetrators confined th...

Severe social withdrawal, called hikikomori, has drawn increased public attention. However, an optimal clinical approach and strategy of treatment has not been well established. Here, we report a case of hikikomori for which an exercise intervention using jogging therapy was effective, showing cerebral hemodynamic improvement. The patient was a 20 year old Japanese male who was hospitalized in ...