ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts discussed in the further chapters of the book. This book aims at reviewing the newest, most updated loneliness interventions. It outlines various approaches that aim at cognitive restructuring, social skills learning, increasing social access, improving social support, and utilizing the Internet to connect, at least virtually Loneliness, which can involve excruciating physical as well as mental suffering, is an ancient nemesis. Solitude, which is so valuable to our growth and development, is not very familiar to many; there are those who shun it as it feels to them, or reminds them, of loneliness.Loneliness is a prevalent, common, and disconcerting social phenomenon. It is implicated in numerous somatic, psychosomatic, and psychiatric diseases. Since loneliness is painful, and since people's individualistic society seems to enhance it, it follows that they can, in their Western societies, find a growing number of unhappy people suffering from emotional disorders.
