NSE 21A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sensory Deprivation, Social Isolation
31 Jan 2018
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Isolation has also been used as a tool to prevent the spread of infectious disease through the physical separation of those infected from the population. Isolation is now being recognized as an outcome for those with mental, physical, infectious, and age-related issues that limit a person"s ability to connect with their social network. Isolation is a physical or emotional separation that is negatively experienced by the individual or group. Defining attributes: three major attributes of human isolation: sensory deprivation, social isolation, and confinement. Sensory deprivation: sensory deprivation, or the removal of reception and/or perception of human stimuli. Confinement a forced, or involuntary, limitation in the amount of physical space and/or restraint on actual physical movement for a person. Definition of isolation: a state in which an individual experiences a reduction in the level of normal sensory and social input with possible involuntary limitations on physical space or movement.
