Social isolation: strategies to identify, prevent and combat the phenomenon
Results of the Erasmus + project "kHIK it - Strategies to engage socially isolated youngsters", co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union under the Grant Agreement no. 2019-3-IT03-KA105-017178.
Results of the Erasmus + project "kHIK it - Strategies to engage socially isolated youngsters", co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union under the Grant Agreement no. 2019-3-IT03-KA105-017178.
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
Case Studies
This chapter presents the case studies shared and discussed by the participants of the
project's international seminar, held in Naples in October 2021. All the names used are
solely pseudonyms.
Case Study #1
Pseudonym
Maya
Age 37
Description
Maya is a woman born and raised in a small town in Bulgaria.
In her early childhood, she did not show any abnormalities in her social behaviour.
However, she preferred the company of younger children, and she was not living up to her
age. The first signs of her discomfort have been observed in her early high-school years:
she began having some difficulties with subjects like Chemistry and Math, had issues
overcoming them and began having difficulties with peers at school.
33
Change language