Sentences with phrase «brief establishing set»

Following a brief establishing set - up, the action kicks off when a trio of groomsmen (Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis) wake up in the apocalyptic wreckage of their Las Vegas hotel suite to discover an abandoned baby in the closet, Mike Tyson's tiger in the bathroom and the inexplicable absence of the groom himself (Justin Bartha), who is due to get hitched in 24 hours» time.

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Brief # 1: Common Progress Monitoring Omissions: Planning and Practice (PDF): Brief # 1 addresses common omissions in planning and practice, and includes suggestions for (a) choosing appropriate progress monitoring tools, (b) setting schedules for collecting progress monitoring data and ongoing meetings, and (c) establishing guidelines for decision making and fidelity practices.
A brief bit of text establishes the skeletal set - up, detailing an experiment gone awry in a magician's subterranean laboratory.
PCIT was chosen as the PT program because PCIT: a) has well established efficacy in reducing young children's EBP (Eisenstadt et al. 1993; Eyberg et al. 2001; Hood and Eyberg 2003; Schuhmann et al. 1998); b) contains all of the treatment components recognized by Kaminski and colleagues» meta - analysis (Kaminski et al. 2008) as yielding the largest effect sizes (i.e., increasing positive parent — child interactions, promoting consistency and use of time out, and requiring parents to practice new skills with their child during PT sessions); c) aims to strengthen the parent — child relationship, which can be accomplished in a brief intervention (Bakermans - Kranenburg et al. 2003); d) is a competency - based model that emphasizes skill acquisition rather than a fixed set of sessions; and e) includes a unique delivery technique (i.e., wireless headset for the therapist to coach the parent in vivo during interactions with the child) similar to an exposure - based approach in which parents observe «in vivo» changes in their child behavior during sessions.
A depression rating for each participant was established using five items from the Brief Symptom Inventory, a 53 - item self - report scale (Derogatis, 2000) that taps depression symptoms commonly observed in everyday settings.
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