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Psychosocial aspects, trauma and dysfunctionalities in contemporary society
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Author: Coordonator Nina Stanescu
Publisher year: 2026
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Psychosocial aspects, trauma and dysfunctionalities in contemporary society
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Florentina Olimpia Avram
Tatiana Barbaroș
Florena Antonescu
Rodica Enache
Maxim Marian Vlad
Liviu Toader
Tatiana Barbaroș
Florena Antonescu
Rodica Enache
Maxim Marian Vlad
Liviu Toader
Collective consciousness appears to be undergoing a genuine state of social acedia, characterised by the weakening of communal responsibility, the declining sensitivity to the suffering of others, and the transformation of solidarity into a predominantly formal, bureaucratic, and discontinuous response. This is not merely a matter of individual indifference, but rather a form of generalised moral fatigue through which society continues to function institutionally while gradually losing its capacity to recognise vulnerability, respond empathetically, and provide genuine protection.
The acedia of collective consciousness becomes visible in the way the family is increasingly pushed into social invisibility and perceived primarily through administrative indicators, social case files, statistics, and categories of risk, rather than through its emotional, relational, and moral reality. Vulnerable families are registered, classified, and assessed, yet they are not always understood in the full complexity of the traumas, ruptures, absences, and forms of suffering they experience. In this context, social intervention risks remaining procedural and focused on case management, without developing into a form of intervention capable of rebuilding trust, belonging, and emotional security.
Young people, in turn, are increasingly left to cope almost entirely on their own with the pressures of a society centred on performance, competition, rapid adaptation, and public validation. They are expected to demonstrate autonomy, resilience, and success, while being offered fewer and fewer genuine spaces for listening, understanding, and support. Their vulnerability is often interpreted as weakness, lack of willpower, or an inability to adapt, although anxiety, loneliness, psychological exhaustion, and loss of meaning are, in many situations, understandable consequences of a social climate that constantly demands achievement while providing insufficient protection.
At the centre of this reality stands the invisible child, a symbol of a society that looks but no longer truly sees; hears but no longer listens; intervenes formally but no longer genuinely protects. The child is visible in institutional records, school registers, assessment forms, social inquiries, and official reports, yet may remain profoundly unseen in terms of emotional needs, fears, feelings of abandonment, and the search for a stable 9 adult presence. The child thus becomes a silent presence, administratively recognised but emotionally ignored.
Social acedia does not signify a complete absence of response, but rather the erosion of the deeper meaning of collective responsibility. Society responds, but it does so in a fragmented manner; institutions intervene, but often without continuity; communities observe, but do not become sufficiently involved. A rupture therefore emerges between the formal functioning of protection mechanisms and their actual capacity to generate care, closeness, and healing. The family remains alone in the face of its own vulnerability, the young person is compelled to transform suffering into adaptation, and the child learns to remain silent in order not to become a burden.
From a sociological perspective, this condition reveals a crisis of solidarity and collective responsibility. The problem can no longer be reduced to the dysfunction of a particular family or to the fragility of an individual, because it reflects the weakening of social bonds and of the community’s capacity to recognise suffering as a shared concern. Overcoming this form of acedia requires not only more effective services, but also the rehumanisation of social intervention, the restoration of relationships of trust, and the reconstruction of a collective consciousness capable of transforming mere observation into responsibility, and responsibility into genuine protection.
The acedia of collective consciousness becomes visible in the way the family is increasingly pushed into social invisibility and perceived primarily through administrative indicators, social case files, statistics, and categories of risk, rather than through its emotional, relational, and moral reality. Vulnerable families are registered, classified, and assessed, yet they are not always understood in the full complexity of the traumas, ruptures, absences, and forms of suffering they experience. In this context, social intervention risks remaining procedural and focused on case management, without developing into a form of intervention capable of rebuilding trust, belonging, and emotional security.
Young people, in turn, are increasingly left to cope almost entirely on their own with the pressures of a society centred on performance, competition, rapid adaptation, and public validation. They are expected to demonstrate autonomy, resilience, and success, while being offered fewer and fewer genuine spaces for listening, understanding, and support. Their vulnerability is often interpreted as weakness, lack of willpower, or an inability to adapt, although anxiety, loneliness, psychological exhaustion, and loss of meaning are, in many situations, understandable consequences of a social climate that constantly demands achievement while providing insufficient protection.
At the centre of this reality stands the invisible child, a symbol of a society that looks but no longer truly sees; hears but no longer listens; intervenes formally but no longer genuinely protects. The child is visible in institutional records, school registers, assessment forms, social inquiries, and official reports, yet may remain profoundly unseen in terms of emotional needs, fears, feelings of abandonment, and the search for a stable 9 adult presence. The child thus becomes a silent presence, administratively recognised but emotionally ignored.
Social acedia does not signify a complete absence of response, but rather the erosion of the deeper meaning of collective responsibility. Society responds, but it does so in a fragmented manner; institutions intervene, but often without continuity; communities observe, but do not become sufficiently involved. A rupture therefore emerges between the formal functioning of protection mechanisms and their actual capacity to generate care, closeness, and healing. The family remains alone in the face of its own vulnerability, the young person is compelled to transform suffering into adaptation, and the child learns to remain silent in order not to become a burden.
From a sociological perspective, this condition reveals a crisis of solidarity and collective responsibility. The problem can no longer be reduced to the dysfunction of a particular family or to the fragility of an individual, because it reflects the weakening of social bonds and of the community’s capacity to recognise suffering as a shared concern. Overcoming this form of acedia requires not only more effective services, but also the rehumanisation of social intervention, the restoration of relationships of trust, and the reconstruction of a collective consciousness capable of transforming mere observation into responsibility, and responsibility into genuine protection.
PREFACE/ 9
BEYOND MEDICAL RECOVERY: FAMILY, SCHOOL AND PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC SUPPORT IN THE SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL REINTEGRATION OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER/ 11
Florentina Olimpia Avram, Raffaella Santi, Nina Stănescu
THE UNITED FAMILY (THE FAMILY SUPPORTING CHILDREN) – A SOCIAL FACTOR IN PREVENTING ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR AMONG ADOLESCENTS/ 32
Cebotari Stanislav
PSYCHOLOGICAL MECHANISMS OF YOUTH ADAPTATION TO THE CONDITIONS OF A DYSFUNCTIONAL SOCIETY/ 43
Olga Kravchuk
DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT AS A FACTOR IN THE TRANSFORMATION OF AN INDIVIDUAL’S PSYCHO-EMOTIONAL STATE/ 54
Nadtochii Iryna
RESIDENTIAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH THE BIOECOLOGICAL LENS: A QUALITATIVE CASE STUDY IN ROMANIA/ 66
Sorin Cace, Gabriela Neagu
EXISTENTIAL ORIENTATION AND LIFE SATISFACTION: THE MEDIATING ROLES OF POSITIVE AFFECT AND HOPE/ 85
Florena Antonescu
THE POST‑BIOLOGICAL FAMILY: TRANSHUMANIST UTOPIA OR COLLECTIVE TRAUMA?/ 113
Denis Chiriac
POLICIES AND SOCIAL SERVICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION/ 133
Enache Tușa
THE FAMILY IN WINTER: FROM DYSFUNCTION TO SOCIAL INCLUSION/ 150
Corina Cace
THE POSTMODERN FAMILY AND THE SCHOOL: TWO SOCIALIZATION AGENTS IN SEARCH OF A COMMON EDUCATIONAL LANGUAGE/ 164
Mona Bădoi‑Hammami, Miruna Moroianu, Florentina Olimpia Avram
ALGORITHMIC GOVERNANCE IN EDUCATION AS AN EMERGING PSYCHOSOCIAL VULNERABILITY: TEACHER AGENCY, OCCUPATIONAL INSECURITY AND EMOTIONAL EXHAUSTION/ 184
Băiceanu Carmen‑Mihaela
SAINTS AND TRAFFICKERS ‑ ULTIMATE SACRIFICE VERSUS LOVER BOY. THE NEED TO PROTECT WOMEN AT RISK OF BEING TRAFFICKED, ACCORDING TO CHRISTIAN MORALITY, CHURCH LAW AND CRIMINAL LAW/ 207
Maxim Marian Vlad
SPIRITUALITY AND CONSCIOUS SELF‑AWARENESS: CONTEMPORARY DIMENSIONS OF FEMALE COPING/ 220
Tatiana Barbaroș, Iolanda‑Maria Anghel
PROTECTING FAMILY UNITY THROUGH THE LEGISLATION WITHIN ORTHODOX CANON AND ECCLESIASTICAL LAW/ 238
Marian Vlad Maxim
AN INSTITUTION IN DISTRESS: STATUTORY INSTABILITY, MEDIA PRESSURE, AND THE ACCELERATED EXODUS OF ROMANIAN PROSECUTORS/259
Vlad Bătrânu‑Pințea, Ioana‑Alexandra Mihai, Doina Drăguinea
ANALYSIS OF POST‑TRAUMATIC STRESS AMONG UKRAINIAN REFUGEES/ 272
Mariana Floricica Călin, Mihaela Luminița Sandu, Tatiana Barbaroș, Octavian Martinescu
PSYCHOSOCIAL REFLECTIONS ON THE PROCESS OF SOCIAL REINTEGRATION OF PAROLED. FAMILY AND INSTITUTIONAL RESORTS/ 288
Liviu Toader, Nina Stănescu
SOCIAL AND WORK DISCREPANCIES IN SOUTH KOREAN SOCIETY: WORK UNTIL YOU DIE PHILOSOPHY/ 307
Claudiu Coman, Vlad Bătrânu‑Pințea, Georgiana Meluț Diana, Sorin Cace , Doina Drăguinea
PREVENTION OF VIOLENT BEHAVIOURS IN PRE‑UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS. THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE ERASMUS+ PROJECT “EDUCATION THROUGH EMPATHY: TOGETHER AGAINST VIOLENCE”/ 318
Nina‑Cătălina Costin, Rodica Plugaru, Rodica Gabriela Enache, Ana Maria Brăteanu
LEARNING UNDER INVISIBLE PRESSURE: PSYCHOSOCIAL TRAUMA AND DEVELOPMENTAL VULNERABILITIES IN CONTEMPORARY EDUCATIONAL CONTEXTS/ 332
Raluca Silvia Matei, Carmen‑Mihaela Băiceanu, Nina Stănescu
DEVIATIONS OF LOVE FROM A THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE/ 346
Mihail Milea, Gabriel Mogoi
BIRTH TRENDS IN THE VILLAGES OF DOBROGEA: BETWEEN TRADITION AND DEMOGRAPHIC DECLINE/ 363
Gabriel Mogoi
AXIOLOGICAL EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS THROUGH THE SUBJECTS OF PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, CIVIC EDUCATION, COUNSELING AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, AND SOCIAL EDUCATION/ 376
Monica Moraru, Florentina Olimpia Avram, Claudia Simona Popa
DEVELOPMENTAL PATHWAYS OF VULNERABILITY ACROSS THE LIFESPAN: RETHINKING EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF PSYCHOSOCIAL TRAUMA/ 386
Claudia Sălceanu, Carmen‑Mihaela Băiceanu, Nina Stănescu
COPING AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE HOW UNSEEN CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE SURVIVE IN A MERCANTILE SOCIETY AND AN INVISIBLE FAMILY/ 404
Nina Stănescu
THE TRAP OF TECHNOLOGICAL IMMORTALITY: SOCIAL CARE IN CRISIS AND THE CASE FOR A PEDAGOGY OF INTERDEPENDENCE/ 423
Denis Chiriac, Nina Stănescu, Silvia‑Raluca Matei, Mariana Floricica Călin
TRANSLATING THE NEUROSCIENCE OF LEARNING INTO CLASSROOM PRACTICE: A MIXED‑METHODS STUDY OF TEACHERS’ PERCEIVED RELEVANCE, IMPLEMENTATION BARRIERS, AND TRAINING NEEDS/ 442
Florentina Olimpia Avram, Mihaela Botnaru, Mona Bădoi‑Hammami
BEYOND MEDICAL RECOVERY: FAMILY, SCHOOL AND PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC SUPPORT IN THE SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL REINTEGRATION OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER/ 11
Florentina Olimpia Avram, Raffaella Santi, Nina Stănescu
THE UNITED FAMILY (THE FAMILY SUPPORTING CHILDREN) – A SOCIAL FACTOR IN PREVENTING ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR AMONG ADOLESCENTS/ 32
Cebotari Stanislav
PSYCHOLOGICAL MECHANISMS OF YOUTH ADAPTATION TO THE CONDITIONS OF A DYSFUNCTIONAL SOCIETY/ 43
Olga Kravchuk
DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT AS A FACTOR IN THE TRANSFORMATION OF AN INDIVIDUAL’S PSYCHO-EMOTIONAL STATE/ 54
Nadtochii Iryna
RESIDENTIAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH THE BIOECOLOGICAL LENS: A QUALITATIVE CASE STUDY IN ROMANIA/ 66
Sorin Cace, Gabriela Neagu
EXISTENTIAL ORIENTATION AND LIFE SATISFACTION: THE MEDIATING ROLES OF POSITIVE AFFECT AND HOPE/ 85
Florena Antonescu
THE POST‑BIOLOGICAL FAMILY: TRANSHUMANIST UTOPIA OR COLLECTIVE TRAUMA?/ 113
Denis Chiriac
POLICIES AND SOCIAL SERVICES FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION/ 133
Enache Tușa
THE FAMILY IN WINTER: FROM DYSFUNCTION TO SOCIAL INCLUSION/ 150
Corina Cace
THE POSTMODERN FAMILY AND THE SCHOOL: TWO SOCIALIZATION AGENTS IN SEARCH OF A COMMON EDUCATIONAL LANGUAGE/ 164
Mona Bădoi‑Hammami, Miruna Moroianu, Florentina Olimpia Avram
ALGORITHMIC GOVERNANCE IN EDUCATION AS AN EMERGING PSYCHOSOCIAL VULNERABILITY: TEACHER AGENCY, OCCUPATIONAL INSECURITY AND EMOTIONAL EXHAUSTION/ 184
Băiceanu Carmen‑Mihaela
SAINTS AND TRAFFICKERS ‑ ULTIMATE SACRIFICE VERSUS LOVER BOY. THE NEED TO PROTECT WOMEN AT RISK OF BEING TRAFFICKED, ACCORDING TO CHRISTIAN MORALITY, CHURCH LAW AND CRIMINAL LAW/ 207
Maxim Marian Vlad
SPIRITUALITY AND CONSCIOUS SELF‑AWARENESS: CONTEMPORARY DIMENSIONS OF FEMALE COPING/ 220
Tatiana Barbaroș, Iolanda‑Maria Anghel
PROTECTING FAMILY UNITY THROUGH THE LEGISLATION WITHIN ORTHODOX CANON AND ECCLESIASTICAL LAW/ 238
Marian Vlad Maxim
AN INSTITUTION IN DISTRESS: STATUTORY INSTABILITY, MEDIA PRESSURE, AND THE ACCELERATED EXODUS OF ROMANIAN PROSECUTORS/259
Vlad Bătrânu‑Pințea, Ioana‑Alexandra Mihai, Doina Drăguinea
ANALYSIS OF POST‑TRAUMATIC STRESS AMONG UKRAINIAN REFUGEES/ 272
Mariana Floricica Călin, Mihaela Luminița Sandu, Tatiana Barbaroș, Octavian Martinescu
PSYCHOSOCIAL REFLECTIONS ON THE PROCESS OF SOCIAL REINTEGRATION OF PAROLED. FAMILY AND INSTITUTIONAL RESORTS/ 288
Liviu Toader, Nina Stănescu
SOCIAL AND WORK DISCREPANCIES IN SOUTH KOREAN SOCIETY: WORK UNTIL YOU DIE PHILOSOPHY/ 307
Claudiu Coman, Vlad Bătrânu‑Pințea, Georgiana Meluț Diana, Sorin Cace , Doina Drăguinea
PREVENTION OF VIOLENT BEHAVIOURS IN PRE‑UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS. THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE ERASMUS+ PROJECT “EDUCATION THROUGH EMPATHY: TOGETHER AGAINST VIOLENCE”/ 318
Nina‑Cătălina Costin, Rodica Plugaru, Rodica Gabriela Enache, Ana Maria Brăteanu
LEARNING UNDER INVISIBLE PRESSURE: PSYCHOSOCIAL TRAUMA AND DEVELOPMENTAL VULNERABILITIES IN CONTEMPORARY EDUCATIONAL CONTEXTS/ 332
Raluca Silvia Matei, Carmen‑Mihaela Băiceanu, Nina Stănescu
DEVIATIONS OF LOVE FROM A THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE/ 346
Mihail Milea, Gabriel Mogoi
BIRTH TRENDS IN THE VILLAGES OF DOBROGEA: BETWEEN TRADITION AND DEMOGRAPHIC DECLINE/ 363
Gabriel Mogoi
AXIOLOGICAL EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS THROUGH THE SUBJECTS OF PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, CIVIC EDUCATION, COUNSELING AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, AND SOCIAL EDUCATION/ 376
Monica Moraru, Florentina Olimpia Avram, Claudia Simona Popa
DEVELOPMENTAL PATHWAYS OF VULNERABILITY ACROSS THE LIFESPAN: RETHINKING EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF PSYCHOSOCIAL TRAUMA/ 386
Claudia Sălceanu, Carmen‑Mihaela Băiceanu, Nina Stănescu
COPING AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE HOW UNSEEN CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE SURVIVE IN A MERCANTILE SOCIETY AND AN INVISIBLE FAMILY/ 404
Nina Stănescu
THE TRAP OF TECHNOLOGICAL IMMORTALITY: SOCIAL CARE IN CRISIS AND THE CASE FOR A PEDAGOGY OF INTERDEPENDENCE/ 423
Denis Chiriac, Nina Stănescu, Silvia‑Raluca Matei, Mariana Floricica Călin
TRANSLATING THE NEUROSCIENCE OF LEARNING INTO CLASSROOM PRACTICE: A MIXED‑METHODS STUDY OF TEACHERS’ PERCEIVED RELEVANCE, IMPLEMENTATION BARRIERS, AND TRAINING NEEDS/ 442
Florentina Olimpia Avram, Mihaela Botnaru, Mona Bădoi‑Hammami
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