Isolation Case Studies

Crane, Brent. “The Virtues of Isolation.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 30 Mar. 2017, www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/03/the-virtues-of-isolation/521100/.

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Case study: Paul is 10 years old. His teachers that he might be suffering from abuse at home have reported it to the Local authority. He will be starting secondary school in a month’s time. The local authority is due to put him in care temporarily whilst investigations take place.

In “Into the Wild”, an award winning novel written by Jon Krakaeur tells a true story about a young man named Chris McCandless, who decided to cut off all family and friends by giving all of his life savings to charity, cutting up all his credit cards and ID, and changing his name to Alexander Supertramp. His goal was to become independent and self-reliant. In order to pursue his new life, McCandless set out to the Alaskan wilderness where he could be completely isolated from society. Chris traveled for 112 days, completely alone. He met some people along the way but left before things got too close. Can someone be alone and have no one to talk to for 112 days? Can someone truly want to be completely isolated from everyone and everything for the rest of their life? I’m not sure, but I believe that Chris could. He wanted more than anything, to live the way he wanted to. Chris wanted to be isolated because of the need to be self-reliant, to become independent, and to

Mary is a 37 year old female with various learning disabilities. Mary still lives at home with her sister as she fears to be independent. Mary attends a day centre 5 days a week where she can socialise with other people and gain more independence as an individual. Mary has a brother who regularly visit, her mother sadly died two years ago and her father left when Mary was a teenager. Mary’s father sexually and physically abused her when she was a child, this abuse was on-going for about 8 years. When her mother found out about this through Marys sister, she confronted her husband, he swiftly denied it and left the soon after. Marys never heard from her father again after he left. Mary has been attending the day centre since she left school when she was 18, she has made significant progress throughout according to her key

In part one of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, the reader is introduced to Scout, the narrator of the book, her family and other members of the community in which she lives. Scout and her older brother Jem are the children of Atticus Finch, a lawyer in Maycomb County, Alabama during the Great Depression. Scout and Jem meet Dill, a boy spending the summer with his Aunt Rachel. He is between Scout and Jem’s age and becomes a great friend and playmate. He, like Scout and Jem are enjoying the freedom of no school, using their imagination inventing, and playing games throughout the summer. Next door to Scout and Jem, lives a very curious individual whom they have never seen but heard rumors about. This individual has been kept isolated by his father because of some innocent pranks he was involved in over fifteen years ago. Arthur “Boo” Radley is a young man rumored to be root of all evil in the small town of Maycomb. Curiosity is a theme repeated throughout part one as the Scout, Jem, and Dill desire to know or learn more about life and Boo Radley.

Have you ever wondered why teenagers are the most vulnerable to committing suicide? Why they are afraid to become adults by taking responsibility for their actions? To shed some light on this particular situation, J.D. Salinger puts this burden on Holden Caulfield, a distressed teenager who struggles to find someone who he can trust after the death of his brother, Allie. He suffered psychologically, which causes him to subconsciously distrust anyone who is an adult, believing that they will corrupt the minds of the children. And even when he does have someone who is willing to trust him, such as Phoebe, his little sister, he decides to run away and confide in people whom he knows will leave his life. In The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger demonstrates that the sudden death of a loved one causes teenagers, especially, to isolate themselves from others because they feel as if they might lose another precious person in their life. In order to them realize this, there are people who are not willing to allow them to become more isolated as they already are.

Isolation is a feeling one gets when you feel like you are not wanted by society also, misunderstood by the people around you. Someone going through depression and his cries have been ignored. The phrase “I was much further out than you thought” (3). Far out in the water and the distance felt from other people mentally that they did not notice. The fact that they can misinterpret a cry for help as something mistaken for friendly waving. They did not understand of the person and how isolated the person was.

Holden's disconnection from his family and friends causes an isolation that then leads to the deep depression expressed in the novel as “his great fall”. Sending him to boarding school portrays the physical and emotional distance that Holden faces with his parents. After the death of his younger brother it is implied that Holden displayed the tendencies of a distraught teneager. By “flunking four subjects and not applying myself and all.(6))” Yet instead of dealing with the issues of their problematic son they instead choose to send him away to boarding school as a means of not having to have that problem. Holden is so far disconnected from his parents emotionally and physically that it becomes a sure fire way for him to lead the life of a

In today’s society, there is an abundance of ways to isolate one’s self. Many do not realize the complications that come with prolonged isolation. Arthur Miller, an American playwright of multiple plays, specifically Death of a Salesman, has won multiple awards, such as; Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and a Tony Award for Best Play. Miller, is able to distinctly represent complications, that are coupled with isolation, for Linda and Willy Loman, coping mechanisms for isolation are vastly different from one another, and still they both succeed in contributing to Willy’s own isolation.

Throughout this assessment I will analyse a critical incident of an interaction between a worker and a service user or carer during my statutory observation experience. I will conclude my own assessment of the situation and demonstrate my understanding of the use of self, context in which social work takes place and the knowledge and methods of practice. I will not use any of the service users, carers or agencies names in this essay due to the data protection act 1998. I will also adhere to the GSCC codes of conduct that respect and relate to the service users

Community, “ The people of a district or country considered collectively, especially in the context of social values and responsibilities ”(Oxford Dictionaries). Isolation “Cause (a person or place) to be or remain alone or apart from others”(Oxford dictionaries). These keywords can describe emotions in the world and is what tears them from society or brings them closer in. In Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer demonstrates the ideals of community and isolation for a young boy named Chris McCandless, who ventures into the wild to achieve isolation in his world. Exemplifying this, he created a new identity for himself as Alexander Supertramp a leather tramp, who draws many people in but does not care much for the people he meets, so he can achieve

As part of my HNC Social Care I have been asked to complete an extended reflective account about an incident/ pattern of behaviour at my placement for the subject understanding and supporting behaviour. This assessment has to be handed in on the 21st of May 2013. Due to the confidentiality of the young people at Rathbone and the Data Protection Act 1998 I will refer to the particular young person who is involved in the incident as Jack.

I engulf the feeble victim in seemingly unescapable loneliness, overtaking the joys of their heart and ensnaring them in a pit of desolate solitude. The sense of bleakness will overcome the senses and suck out all the bliss they hold close. Because it appears most of humanity rely on one another for comfort and joy, the unavoidable reality of being unaccompanied is enough to drive a man mad. I describe the sense of separation that strikes a soul, sucking out every ounce of remembrance and comfort the past attempts to bring. Yesterday will never return, just as tomorrow always comes; it’s inevitable. Once I reach you, it’s a struggle to get rid of this parasite that I am, called isolation. There comes a point where the victim will decide

One of the fundamental tenants of this view is that these possible worlds must not engage with one another in any way. In order to be fully isolated, the occurrence of something in one world does not and cannot influence what goes on in any other world. Lewis goes on to say that an infinite number of such worlds exists. This is because there is an infinite number of possibilities for how one part of a world could possibly be. Lewis includes possible worlds that do not obey our rules of nature, ones in which no life exists. For each of these ways that a world or a part of a world could possibly be, there absolutely exists another world that is in fact that way (Plurality of Worlds 209, 222). Lewis refers to this as ‘plentitude.’ All of these different worlds, including our own, are the same kind of thing, making one no more real than any other. The view holds that this world does not differ from others in its manner of existing. Thus the “actual” world, for Lewis, is just wherever “here” is. For us, the actual world is our universe. However, someone in another world can say that the same statement referring to a different universe (their universe) and the statement would hold true in both cases.