Sentences with phrase «at interaction patterns»

My approach utilizes emotionally focused therapy, aimed at looking at interaction patterns and emotional states.

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Birch and Cobb maintain that the ecological model is more adequate than the mechanical model for explaining DNA, the cell, other biological subject matter (as well as subatomic physics), because it holds that living things behave as they do only in interaction with other things which constitute their environment (LL 83) and because «the constituent elements of the structure at each level (of an organism) operate in patterns of interconnectedness which are not mechanical» (LL 83).

Significant Evidence - Based Research Findings of Infant Massage: • Supports parent - infant interaction • Facilitates weight gain in preterm infants1 • Lowers levels of cortisol, the stress hormone • Increases muscle tone • Improves sleep and awake patterns • Shortens lengths of stay in hospitals • Improves cognitive and motor development at eight months of age • Infant massage is an inexpensive tool • Can be used as part of the developmental care plan of preterm infants • Recent research shows there are significant benefits to infant massage that out weigh over-stimulation • Properly applied techniques produce increased benefits, such as improved developmental scores and earlier discharge2

Erin Keebaugh, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher in Associate Professor William Ja's Laboratory at TSRI, suspected that the systems responsible for caffeine's impact on fly (and maybe human) sleep patterns are more complex than a single caffeine and receptor interaction.

«This work raises the bar» for using present - day species interactions to convincingly explain evolutionary patterns that emerged millions of years in the past, says Craig Benkman, a biologist at the University of Wyoming in Laramie.

A phenomenon called the Dzyaloshinskii - Moriya interaction (DMI)-- which occurs at the interface between a magnetic layer and a non-magnetic metal — tilts the spins and arranges them into circular patterns.

Archibald, Buler, and their colleagues further investigate this distributional pattern by analyzing the interaction between spring migratory flight behavior and the migrant exodus at nearshore stopover sites using NEXRAD radar,» according to The Nature Conservancy's Dave Ewert.

Recognizing these patterns is at the core of the wasps» social interactions.

Recovery is also highly variable and depends upon interactions of numerous factors, e.g., scale of the disturbance, availability of larvae from surviving corals, availability of substrate for coral settlement, and the type of coral community that existed at the time of the disturbance.ref Changes in storm patterns also threaten associated coral reef habitats such as mangroves.

Three - way ANOVA were performed to discriminate among the effects of age (A), protein feeding pattern (P), nutritional state (N) and their interactions on tissue protein metabolism at d 21.

This patterning is a result of the interaction of two different genes, the merle (M Locus) gene, PMEL, and a modifier gene, PSMB7, at the harlequin (H locus).

Changes in usual behaviors and routines Changes in interactions with humans and other pets Grooming changes Activity changes such as sleeping patterns, jumping, wandering, reacting to being handled, and ability to navigate to preferred places Vocalization (especially yowling at night Changes in litter box habits Eating and drinking (amount and behavior); vomiting or signs of nausea Stool quality (number, volume, consistency, odor, color) Urine quality and / or quantity (volume, frequency, color, odor) Hearing or vision loss (decreased responsiveness, increased vocalization).

The decay of the materials and their conversion into abstract patterns quite un-associated with the branding for which they were specifically designed is at once a purely chance procedure, yet also highly controlled by the artist, who carefully considers the present and future interaction of the materials before constructing each work and meticulously records with photographs the order in which he gathered each object.

How do the complex feedbacks change atmospheric circulation patterns, and the interaction of these patterns to changes in ice cap topography (e.g. at the LGM)?

But the report, signed by Kevin H. Winters, assistant inspector general for investigations, criticized what it said was a sustained pattern of activities, largely supervised by senior political appointees, that included muting or withholding news releases on global warming and, at least in Dr. Hansen's case, limiting a scientist's interactions with reporters for fear that he might stray into discussing policies at odds with those of the White House.

Surface wind and wave parameters at various scales help to describe the wind and wave patterns in storms as well as to study of air - sea interaction mechanisms in such energetic events.

The principal component time series of the ENSO (M1) and North Pacific (M3) modes are coherent at time scales > 10 years, and their interaction results in the traditional PDO pattern and the dominant mode of Pacific multi-decadal variability.

Development path - An evolution based on an array of technological, economic, social, institutional, cultural and biophysical characteristics that determine the interactions between human and natural systems, including production and consumption patterns in all countries, over time at a particular scale.

Well, many that tried LSD also saw patterns... Many that look at the vastness of interactions in the universe see patterns.

Inspired by Lon Fuller, who, in Rod Macdonald's words, «saw law as a human project, a human accomplishment, and a human aspiration that emerges from ongoing patterns of human interaction and the reciprocal adjustment of human expectation,» he conceived legal education as being, at its core, learning how «to attend to the complexities of human beings in interaction with each other,» stating that we should teach how law could be «a facilitator of human interaction» and «about finding social outcomes that help solve human problems [rather than] perfecting abstract concepts to solve legal puzzles.»

You can see the same pattern with HomeKit, or Siri: the Amazon Echo is quietly taking over the home automation market with a simple API that is easy - to - integrate with and easy - to - understand; Apple, meanwhile, has yet to announce a Siri API even as it struggles to deliver natural language interaction that is simply not what the company is good at.

By examining the interactions, roles, and patterns of our relationships, we can learn to function more effectively at home, work, or in social situations.

Children whose parents showed marital interaction patterns predictive of divorce externalizing difficulties, but actual divorce / separation at Time 2 (3 years after the initial study) was not associated with externalizing behaviors at time 2.

At the end of each post, the antidote to these negative interaction patterns will be given.

In 2009, psychologists from Brigham Young University conducted one of the first studies asking people in romantic relationships about their tech - interaction patterns.2 They confirmed that the average couple (aged 17 - 60) now calls and texts each other at least once a day.

A temperamental disposition toward the avoidance of novel and uncertain situations together with a set of behaviors that indicate shyness and discomfort in social interactions are comprehensively named childhood shyness, or behavioral inhibition (BI).14 Children with high indexes of shyness - BI are at a heightened risk of developing anxiety disorders, in particular social phobia, 15 and subjects who fall within the BI — social phobia developmental continuum show specific patterns of neurophysiologic responses to pictures of facial expressions.

It has taken you a long time to develop negative interaction patterns, and you will have to relearn ways to connect that will at first seem hard to implement.

However, families who allow boundaries to be constantly, routinely crossed, who set up patterns of interaction and form a family process that lacks self - regulating behaviors, need help at re-forming boundaries.

Parenting Support will look at some common negative patterns in our interactions and will present a variety of positive alternatives.

Challenging behavior in the early years of development is defined as «any repeated pattern of behavior or perception of behavior that interferes with or is at risk of interfering with optimal learning or engagement in prosocial interactions with peers and adults» (Smith & Fox, 2003, p. 5).

A pattern of angry / irritable mood, argumentative / defiant behavior, or vindictiveness lasting at least 6 months as evidenced by at least four symptoms from any of the following categories, and exhibited during interaction with at least one individual who is not a sibling.

Depending on the conflicts at issue and the progress of therapy to date, a Family Counselor may focus on analyzing specific former instances of conflict, as by reviewing a past event and suggesting alternative ways family members might have responded to one another during it, or instead proceed directly to addressing the sources of dispute at a more abstract level, as by pointing out patterns of interaction that the family might have not noticed.

Challenging behavior is defined as «any repeated pattern of behavior, or perception of behavior, that interferes with or is at risk of interfering with optimal learning or engagement in prosocial interactions with peers and adults» (Powell, Dunlap, & Fox 2006, 26).

Strategies are presented to: design an optimally effective classroom environment; establish a schoolwide discipline plan; manage teacher - student interactions effectively; conduct social skills training for entire classrooms of students; involve parents; identify students at risk for developing antisocial behavior patterns; develop a pull - out intensive social skills instruction program which includes «normal» peers; prevent escalated hostile teacher - student confrontations; and improve the antisocial student's social interactions, peer relations, and ability to abide by playground rules.

These patterns frequently mirror habitual interaction patterns at home, even though the therapist is now incorporated into the family system.

Depending on the conflicts at issue and the progress of therapy to date, a therapist may focus on analyzing specific previous instances of conflict, as by reviewing a past incident and suggesting alternative ways family members might have responded to one another during it, or instead proceed directly to addressing the sources of conflict at a more abstract level, as by pointing out patterns of interaction that the family might have not noticed.

Challenging behavior in the early years of development, defined as «any repeated pattern of behavior or perception of behavior that interferes with or is at risk of interfering with optimal learning or engagement in pro-social interactions with peers and adults» (Systems of service delivery: A synthesis of evidence relevant to young children at risk of or who have challenging behavior, University of South Florida, Tampa, 2003), can have pervasive deleterious effects on the child's social emotional functioning, learning, and longitudinal outcomes over time (Behav Disord, 32:29 — 45, 2006; Preventing mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders among young people: Progress and possibilities.

First, rather than relying on short term reports of family or parental functioning in determining targets for intervention, clinicians would be wise to evaluate patterns of parent — child interaction over time with repeated assessments, as individual or family functioning at any one point in time may not be reflective of enduring patterns of behavioral or relational functioning.

Sessions may focus on individual members or relationship pairs within the family; however, the focus is a change in interaction patterns at the family level.