Sentences with phrase «dysfunctional homes»

The Archway Community was based in large part on the theories of the late, radical psychiatrist R.D. Laing, including his belief that the hierarchical structure of the usual doctor - patient relationship could be broken down by communal living — an effort to break the cycle of people being fruitlessly shuttled between mental hospitals and their often dysfunctional homes.

While the federal No Child Left Behind law «shined a spotlight» on the needs of the most disadvantaged students, says Petrilli, «let's not overlook their slightly less disadvantaged peers — the boys and girls who come from low - income but perhaps not as dysfunctional homes and who aspire to graduate from college and enter the middle class.»

We'll teach them personal hygiene... the personal things they don't get when they come from dysfunctional homes,» Paladino said.

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.

Besides, Justin reasons, there are plenty of people who grow up in horribly dysfunctional homes who turn out straight!

Here's the thing: For the film's many storytelling flaws and clichés, it may be the best presentation of the confusion, nostalgia and cognitive dissonance that many people who grew up in dysfunctional homes struggle with.

Small, faith - based schools with religiously motivated teachers are more likely to offer the special attention, loving intimacy and moral standards hat an increasing number of dysfunctional homes can not provide.

Elementary children at the least equipped to deal with, and get help for, any issues of mental health, especially in dysfunctional homes that aren't the «worst of the worst»... there is likely a better chance the kid getting beaten black and blue will get notices (but not necessarily, sadly), then the child that is being psychologically or emotionally abused.

Success despite growing up in a dysfunctional home Raise successful kids - former VP of Disney story Leadership...

Matthew came to Covenant House at the age of 17 after being pushed out of a highly dysfunctional home.

While ODD can develop in children from loving and stable families, it's not uncommon for these children to have had a dysfunctional home life and / or exposure to violence.

A mysterious number on Lumpy's phone leads the new couple to Ramsey, a distant teenager growing up in a dysfunctional home.

The term is most often used to describe kids who have emotional problems that interfere with school performance, come from dysfunctional home environments, have had some problem with the law, and / or have been frequent behavioral challenges in school.

Its tragic back story — it was published eleven years after the author committed suicide — reinforces the lesson hidden in its pages: Within the awkward body of an overweight slacker with lousy hygiene and a dysfunctional home life may beat the heart of a brilliant artist in need of a teacher's faith.

To support his program, he's had to suggest he had an «inner city» upbringing on «the streets» and was raised in a dysfunctional home we typically associate with the truly disadvantaged.

If it's successful, Monument could address the root causes of many of the difficulties schools with lots of at - risk students face: dysfunctional home environments and a lack of mental health services.

Thirteen - year - old Karina, a member of a large immigrant family from Haiti, deals with growing up in an abusive and dysfunctional home dominated by her horrifying stepfather.

Because I haven't been directly involved with someone with autism I had a hard time deciphering if Ginny's behaviors were related to autism or growing up in a very dysfunctional home.

This year also saw the IF Comp entries The Unofficial Sea - Monkey Simulation (a melancholy reflection on life in a dysfunctional home where the only thing you can affect is your sea monkeys» care and feeding) and Transient Skies (another space exploration game, this one interspersed with bits of character - defining flashback).

John says about his art: «I grew up in a dysfunctional home.

EMDR works with major trauma as well as repetitive, «small t» trauma like that experienced growing up in a dysfunctional home.»

Not exact matches

I was raised as a catholic and my home was so very dysfunctional in the relationships and just difficult all around.

Although my family was considered «saved» my home life was really dysfunctional & there were also times of abuse within the church, and outside of that too... There are really bad people everywhere.

Christian faith is not inherited; each generation, each individual, must learn faith anew.11 Recent Protestant innovations in membership procedures and sacramental practices are only the logical extension of long - dysfunctional assumptions about the faith formation of persons in the home, in Sunday School, and in the church.

Angelique Cabral spends her days playing Colleen in the comedy Life in Pieces, which follows one big happy (and sometimes dysfunctional family), but at home, she is spending time with her own family....

If that birth went perfect — no bleeding, no stuck placenta, no dysfunctional labor — they would be more likely to feel comfortable choosing a home setting for subsequent births.

«With home ownership in decline, rents rising rapidly and social housing waiting lists at a record high, it's time to face up to the fact that we have a totally dysfunctional housing market,» NHF chief executive David Orr said.

However, Mr Reid rejected calls for the Home Office to be split up, saying that while the system was not fit for purpose, «I don't believe [the department] is intrinsically dysfunctional».

However the NHF chief executive David Orr says the market is «dysfunctional» and warned: «Home ownership is increasingly becoming the preserve of the wealthy and, in parts of the country like London, the very wealthy.»

As we organise events and ceremonies to celebrate them, let us also remember their role in saving dysfunctional families, broken homes and bitter marriages.

After all, the Brennan Center for Justice once famously called New York home to the most dysfunctional legislature in the United States.

The only families interested in buying a home in a dysfunctional school system are those who do not wish to enroll their kids in that school system.

«We know that young children are susceptible to numerous adverse factors that they may be exposed to in the home environment — including cigarette smoking, indoor triggers, and even, as this study shows, dysfunctional families and associated domestic violence» said allergist James Sublett, MD, ACAAI president.

Whether these defects are due to improper T cell activation by dysfunctional antigen presenting cells, suppression by the tumor microenvironment, or by improper homing of the «correct» T cells to the tumor is not known.

Singapore About Blog mrbrown's blog containing his popular and satirical musings on the dysfunctional side of Singapore life, and Home of the National Conversation since 1997.

* insert crazy noisemaker effect here * Our new year is already off to an interesting start, as the photos of this great red military blazer with gold buttons were taken after a night of getting up every hour and a half to check on the defrosting of our frozen pipes due to a broken window and dysfunctional furnace in two of the units in our home!

It's really a sad funny story why we remodeled the master bath... Though it was hideous and totally dysfunctional (I'll share before pictures some other time), we were planning to remodel it after some of the more public areas of the home.

In the hands of the Farrellys, the Stooges are, unsurprisingly, made into totems of the duo's favored themes and values: separation anxiety, and the special qualities of home and family, however dysfunctional.

A man returns home to his dysfunctional family after learning that his mother has a brain tumor.

The story follows the women of a family whose lives have splintered in many directions until a crisis bring them back to their childhood home and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.

Dennis Leary's fast - talking crook with a heart of gold gets more than he bargained for when he attempts to burglarize the home of a dysfunctional couple of the verge of divorce played by the perfectly cast Judy Davis and Kevin Spacey.

Determined to find a solution, her dysfunctional family agrees to send her to a group home for youths, which is led by a non-traditional doctor.

Back at home for the funeral, he is reunited with his industrious older brother Paul (Corey Stoll, House of Cards), buttoned up married sister Wendy (Tina Fey, 30 Rock) and flaky, self - involved younger brother Philip (Adam Driver, Girls)-- all under the imperious eye of pop psychologist / author mother, Hilary (Jane Fonda), whose new set of boobs only adds to the dysfunctional family's impending group breakdown.

Some entries in the largely undistinguished dysfunctional - family - holiday - film subgenre — The Family Stone (also with Keaton) and Jodie Foster's Home for the Holidays, to name two — are watchable despite their forced zaniness and predictable emotional beats; the spectacle of attractive stars packed into the frame to act out universal problems (meddling parents, sibling rivalries, unfulfilled romantic and professional lives) has its charms and comforts.

Hank's mother is dead, and he's back for the funeral, reuniting briefly with his two brothers, one (Vincent D'Onofrio) who bears a grudge and another (Jeremy Strong) whose childlike mental state means he still lives at home, the innocent ingredient in a dysfunctional domestic stew.

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.

Sitcom follows the going - on in the home of a dysfunctional upper middle - class French family who no longer know how to communicate with one another.

Another take on the old «home for the holidays» template, it tracks the emotionally fraught reunion of a large, dysfunctional family, all with issues too tangled to explain here, drawn together by Catherine Deneuve's leukemia - afflicted matriarch.

Cyrus (R for profanity and sexuality) Dysfunctional family comedy about a divorced guy (John C. Reilly) who thinks he's met the woman of his dreams (Marisa Tomei) until he has to deal with her 21 year - old son (Jonah Hill) still living at home.

Our Little Sister (PG for mature themes and brief mild epithets) Dysfunctional family dramedy about three sisters (Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa and Kaho) living in their late grandmother's home who invite a half - sibling (Suzu Hirose) they meet at their father's funeral to move in with them.