Dr. Alan Teo is a Core Investigator in the VA HSR&D Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care at the VA Portland Health Care System, an Assistant Professor at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), with dual appointments in the Department of Psyc
Research has shown that hikikomori is a maladaptive condition that is widespread all around the world. Hikikomori has been found in North and South America, more specifically in the USA (Bowkeret al., 2019;Stavropouloset al., 2019;Teo, 2013), Canada (Chong and Chan, 2012), Brazil (Rozaet...
The Japanese term “hikikomori” refers to a state of preferring to stay at home. The COVID pandemic provided an opportunity to extend our current understanding of hikikomori by examining the psychological states of individuals who were in this state under lockdown, during which, paradoxically, ...
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