FREE. A monthly journal club for mental health professionals. The gap between dependent adolescence and independent adulthood seems to be getting wider - and more and more clients in mental health settings seem to be stuck at the transition. This online one-hour journal club selects and discusses a single short-ish article from the online open-access published literature on the subject of failure to launch, NEET (Not in Education Employment or Training), and hikikomori, with the aim of expanding awareness of the nature and therapy for this increasingly common life challenge. There is no need to attend regularly. Email me for the zoom link. Time is 11 am Pacific (Vancouver) time, 2 pm Eastern.

This time: Rooksby, M, Furuhashi, T, & McLeod, HJ (2020) Hikikomori: A hidden mental health need following the COVID-19 pandemic. World Psychiatry 19:3, 399-400. A prescient discussion of the predicted effects of COVID-related lockdowns on the prevalence and severity of hikikomori. Direct link here.