Sentences with phrase «changing dysfunctional»

They do so by changing dysfunctional patterns or relating and creating functional ways of interacting.

Today I am a certified advanced Schema Therapist and I strongly believe that this approach can really help patients to overcome their sufferings, by changing the dysfunctional behaviors and attitudes that have characterized their entire life.

Addiction therapy focuses on education about the route to recovery: analyzing underlying thought and habits, ceasing problematic relationships, and changing dysfunctional behaviors and thought patterns.

These approaches give me a framework to assist you with learning new coping skills; increasing motivation for change; overcoming ambivalence about change; clarifying your values and what is most important to you; identifying your strengths and resources that have helped in the past; identifying patterns in relationships; and changing dysfunctional thought processes that are leading to uncomfortable feelings and unwanted behaviors.

Specialties are parenting / co-parenting, divorce and transitions, ADHD, depression, anxiety, balancing elderly parents, illness with family responsibilities, managing addiction or oppositional behavior of a child, setting healthy boundaries and changing dysfunctional family systems.

Family, or couple, therapy works towards changing the dysfunctional interaction between family members and developing new and healthier relationships.

Changing dysfunctional thoughts can significantly reduce problematic feelings and behaviors.

Along the way we may have to deal with changing dysfunctional relationships, resolving trauma as well as developing new coping skills.»

Do you want to work through past traumas, change dysfunctional family patterns and shed outdated defenses?

Cognitive Behavior Therapy is often used in individual and group therapy to help change dysfunctional habits.

Individual therapy to begin to change dysfunctional dynamics, rectify skill deficits, and uncover problematic issues in the family of origin that impair «living life on life's terms»

STEP also helps parents change dysfunctional and destructive relationships with their children by offering concrete alternatives to abusive and ineffective methods of discipline and control.

Group therapy offers the opportunity to change these dysfunctional patterns as they occur with peers and to raise self - esteem by increasing interpersonal skills.

He added that systematic behavioral techniques are also employed to change dysfunctional coping styles, especially maladaptive behaviors in intimate relationships.

The strategies and techniques employed in this type of therapy include: Encourage empowerment Paradoxical intervention Address power struggles Circular questioning Change dysfunctional interactive patterns Assigning tasks

The type of intervention in structural therapy helps to change dysfunctional patterns with the therapist being directive.

Family counseling can also help your family identify and change dysfunctional communication and behavior patterns as well as improve your overall family relationship.

The book includes many practical ideas to change your dysfunctional thoughts and improve your marriage

Not exact matches

By analogy, the first step in getting started toward constructive change may be the painful negation of a dysfunctional pattern.

Not only have they segregated themselves, but they benefit from the social changes that make so many lower - class communities dysfunctional.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

Whatever your beliefs are regarding the intentions of this club moving forward, don't think for a second that it has to do with appeasing the fans, winning the highest honours and / or changing the stagnant culture that permeates this club... every decision is made for one sole purpose and that is to maintain the delicate balance between Kroenke's unyielding need to acquire more wealth and Wenger's fragile psyche, which is why we have this ridiculous wage structure that pays deadwood too much and makes it incredibly difficult to attract special players... personally I believe that Wenger's greatest fear isn't that he won't win a big trophy again but exposing himself to the overwhelming criticism he will face when people discover the totally dysfunctional state of affairs that exist at Arsenal due to his antiquated practices which have gone relatively unchecked and unchallenged since the departure of Dein

When you take the time to notice where you're feeling most dysfunctional, you can identify the places where effective change can happen.»

I have a very dysfunctional family dynamic and I am so passionate about ensuring that Youngling and I change our future and for our family from here on in.

We're uniquely positioned to continue advocating for systemic change in our often - dysfunctional state and local governments, to move Brooklyn toward a more progressive future.

By a margin of 63 - 23, poll respondents said the AG is someone who'll help clean up Albany rather than too much a part of its dysfunctional culture to be truly effective as a change agent.

The Democrats» short - lived stint in power was chaotic and dysfunctional, and the death of the marriage vote caused advocates to change their tactics, focusing on ousting «no» voters regardless of their party affiliation rather than putting all their hopes in one conference or the other.

ALBANY — Andrew Cuomo is a governor of ends, not means, and has changed public perception of the state's notoriously dysfunctional government by pushing legislators into harmonic action and minimizing scandals.

It said it had found a dysfunctional political and electoral system in New York, and that the best way to change that would be to enact public campaign financing without delay.

He has severely attacked black members of the school board but he has also worked hard at the school board to make changes he believes will help students including struggling black students living in dysfunctional homes.

The language in the Moreland Commission's report on legislative corruption is scathing, and validates what crusading journalists, watchdog groups and prosecutors have been saying for years: Albany is a place where laws are bought, and nothing will change until the «dysfunctional electoral and political systems» are reformed.

It's been a continuing nonsensical, dysfunctional effort out of this board over the years to try to change things to make this school system better,» said Paladino.

«He thought he had a dysfunctional circuit that was giving rise to the changes,» says Kar.

It provides a list of suggestions for preventing families from becoming dysfunctional during times of stress and change by focusing on meeting basic human emotional needs within the family.

Although we may spend a huge chunk of the day fantasizing about how much happier we would be if we could only find a more meaningful job, ditch a dysfunctional relationship, or finally take that dream vacation, we tend to stay stagnant because we're afraid of the uncertainty involved in making a change.

Specific mobility requires a direct change to the movement pattern by addressing the joints and all of the tissues affecting the dysfunctional movement pattern.

They make excuses for their behaviors so nothing really changes, including the dysfunctional dynamics of your relationship.

Nevertheless there has been a discernible change in Leigh's work since his last dysfunctional - family opus, Life Is Sweet — a change well described by Australian critic Adrian Martin in a recent letter to me: «I think that as a certain angry anti-Thatcher 80s politics has drained from Leigh's work, he has gravitated to either the bombastic nihilism of Naked (a film I have incredibly mixed feelings about) or the soft - heartedness of Secrets and Lies.»

It's true that Landecker can hardly be considered a neophyte, and just recently played Louie's Mom in the flashback episodes of «Louie,» but «Transparent» gives her her most nuanced central role yet, as ostensibly the most well - balanced of this dysfunctional family, yet also the one who effects, along with her father, the biggest life change of any of them when she leaves her husband for her lesbian college lover.

Filmmaker John Hughes nailed the dysfunctional relationship between adults and children with the opening quote of The Breakfast Club from David Bowie's Changes, «And these children that you spit on as they try... Continue reading →

Gun Hill Road (Unrated) Dysfunctional family drama, set in the South Bronx, about a just - paroled ex-con's (Esai Morales) return home after a three - year stint behind bars to an emotionally - estranged wife (Judy Reyes) who's been unfaithful and a troubled, teenaged son (Harmony Santana) contemplating a sex change operation.

Fixed an issue where for some players the Stormbird would become dysfunctional after its state was repeatedly changed between burning and stunned.

Situations change, and the dynamism and forward - thinking that once existed in the program may have faded, or the governance may have become dysfunctional.

Here's a mechanism that empowers disadvantaged parents to force speedy and transformative change at schools long considered dysfunctional.

Public outcry became so impassioned and so personal that Anderson and her leadership team stopped attending advisory board meetings in February 2014, declaring that they would focus aggressively on implementing change rather than participate in forums they considered dysfunctional and «no longer focused on achieving educational outcomes for children.»

Trauma creates not only dysfunctional individuals: it creates dysfunctional, traumatized society which capacities to change and progress are inevitable affected and significantly lessen.

«Ableist assumptions become dysfunctional when the educational and developmental services provided to disabled children focus inordinately on the characteristics of their disability to the exclusion of all else, when changing disability becomes the overriding focus of service providers and, at times, parents.»

Yet professor Orfield et al. would have Black and Hispanic parents wait for a paradigm shift a la Thomas Kuhn, for some seismic change in the state's zeitgeist, for some miraculous conversion of the suburban mindset that would compel an opening of gated high - performing schools to needy children trapped in dysfunctional ones.

Whoever it is, the parent organizations lost no time in pulling up the drawbridge, ensuring that the only people who could make a substantial change in the operations of a dysfunctional union — the rank - and - file members — were instead presented with a palace coup and a fait accompli.

Working with a companion animal and their human to effect behavioral change in animals displaying dysfunctional, harmful, aggressive, destructive, or undesirable behaviors that cause distress or threaten the wellbeing of humans and / or animals in the home.