Sentences with phrase «dysfunctional ways»

Family therapists don't draw a causative link between pathology and family dynamics but rather show how family interactions or the lack of interactions contribute to the problems, often supporting them in dysfunctional ways.

Couples in conflict often engage in attention - seeking in dysfunctional ways.

Because of this, people become stuck in patterns that can bind them in unhealthy / dysfunctional ways.»

As with everything under the sun, there are healthy ways to approach need and there are dysfunctional ways.

Based on Attachment Theory, I help brothers and sisters to identify their negative cycles of interaction, and break free of the dysfunctional ways of communicating and behaving.

Without acceptance and direction, they find dysfunctional ways to soothe their anxiety, depression or low self - esteem.

«Since 1980 my professional counseling career has assisted thousands of individuals, couples and families in discarding negative self image, dysfunctional ways of relating, and ineffective decision making.

That same marital couple could disagree about spending, leading them to communicate in dysfunctional ways.

According to Harville Hendrix, it ties back to childhood, where we didn't get all of our needs met, and we learned dysfunctional ways to avoid recreating this pain.

Not in a confrontational and dysfunctional way, but in a way that challenges your beliefs and forces you to rethink your most cherished pearls of wisdom.

The movie's family seems to have it all when it comes to money and fame, but as their patriarch, Royal Tenenbaum, attempts to finally make peace with his children (in his own dysfunctional way), we see that the only thing that really matters is love and relationships.

When someone we love is acting in a dysfunctional way, we have a choice.

«And trying to bring it back to their dysfunctional way of governing.»

But he did remind us of the dysfunctional way the Democrats ran the senate the last time they had power and who wants to go back to that?

If perhaps he could have told this tale utilizing just the portion with the gambling Portman and her dysfunctional way of looking at the world, contrasting it with Elizabeth's naivety, I think he'd have another masterwork to add to his already impressive repertoire.

As I approach the point where I am exhausting the alternatives I can conjure up, I realize that the root causes of the justice system's inadequacies might just lie in the dysfunctional way that we as a society handle family breakdown; exploring alternatives to how we restructure families is the point of this post, whether we're prepared to contemplate social change of this magnitude or not.

It's a dysfunctional way of coping that expresses itself in various behaviors.

This dysfunctional way of framing the wedding led «blue brides» to report identity confusion (e.g., «I don't know what it means to be a wife») and relational uncertainty (e.g., «Who are we as a couple?»)

Not exact matches

More and more nations could choose to defy Brussels and go their own way on immigration policy, fiscal targets, and business regulation, rendering the already troubled union even more fractured and dysfunctional.

In many ways, the environment of the dysfunctional family is quite similar to that of a start - up.

When you look the other way and refuse to stand up and call this shit out (it IS shit), then you are perpetuating all that is toxic and dysfunctional.

But, «pedophilia» is highly dysfunctional, and being gay wasn't, in fact, being gay seemed as much «born that way» as heterosexuality, or being a blonde, or having good spatial acuity.

In the face of our sexually - dysfunctional culture, the Church longs to stand as an outpost of God's ways of love and marriage, purity and wholeness.

Even non-religious people, while they may not use the word «sin,» realize that there is something not quite right, something disordered or dysfunctional with the way we attempt to cope with the challenges of life.

To make the point he quotes Dawkins» own «perceptive» summary of Lot in The God Delusion: «If this dysfunctional family was the best that Sodom had to offer by way of morals, some might begin to feel a certain sympathy with God and his judicial brimstone» (Cheekily adding, «Well, Rabbi Dawkins, I think I'm very happy with that gloss!»)

Other times, they may be aware their behavior is wrong (although they are less likely to see it as abusive) and simply think they have to act that way to remain part of the dysfunctional system they are in.

The government may be dysfunctional in some ways, but the marketplace is sociopathic, interested only in profit at all costs.

One of the best ways to prevent it is to follow the trail of energy data breadcrumbs leading to dysfunctional equipment.

If you can manage to be in conversation with your desires in a way that is less dysfunctional than functional, then I think it is just being true to that desire.»

Just the idea that the manner in which he managed the team under his watch was in any way shape or form less dysfunctional than what might be going on right now.

much like when a country can't divulge highly classified information publicly for obvious economic and military reasons, a professional soccer organization must keep certain things in - house so they don't devalue a player, expose a weakness, provide info that could give an opposing club leverage in future negotiations and / or give them vital intel regarding a future match, but when dishonesty becomes the norm the relationship between cub and fan will surely deteriorate... in our particular case, our club has done an absolutely atrocious job when it comes to cultivating a healthy and honest relationship with the media or their fans, which has contributed greatly to our lack of success in the transfer market... along with poor decisions involving weekly wages, we can't ever seem to get true market value for most of our outgoing players and other teams seem to squeeze every last cent out of us when we are looking to buy; why wouldn't they, when you go to the table with such a openly desperate and dysfunctional team like ours, you have all the leverage; made even worse by the fact that who wouldn't want to see our incredibly arrogant and thrifty manager squirm during the process... the real issue at this club is respect, a word that appears to be entirely lost on those within our hierarchy... this is the starting point from which all great relationships between club and supporters form... this doesn't mean that a team can't make mistakes along the way, that's just human nature, it's about how they chose to deal with these situations that will determine if this relationship flourishes or devolves..

If you see yourself and your family that way — or if you've been labeled as one of those dysfunctional families — you're not alone.

Have you ever been a bad relationship... like dysfunctional in some way?

Their dysfunctional behavior can influence the way their children see themselves and the world around them.

We listen to our pediatricians, our friends and family or retreat to the way we were parented ourselves, which usually results in frustration, inconsistency and the development of dysfunctional patterns and unhappy families.

I learned that most of us grew up in «dysfunctional» families and the way that we parent our children is influenced much more strongly by what we subconsciously learned from our own experiences in childhood, than by what we now consciously learn from books.

Although commendable, these efforts are not without problems: in some ways, they stretch the limits of the EU treaties to worrying degrees and risk creating a dysfunctional decision - making context after the elections.

Once things are done in a particular way, unless something is clearly dysfunctional, intense time pressure and the multiple concerns always calling for the attention of the candidate and senior staff generally mean they continue to be done that way.

Once again, the dysfunctional legislators find a way to protect the high life while the poor slob working class get hosed again.

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.

«A late budget would send an improper message, that this government has gone back to its dysfunctional, Washington ways.»

The way the agency handled the recently revealed rate study, for which DEP «shelled out millions of dollars for a report with no conclusions or recommendations» is a perfect example of why both DEP and the Water Board are dysfunctional partners in crime.

I would like to share with you some of the ways my colleagues and I have approached hiring in a rather dysfunctional labor market.

By the way, over the next several years, I predict we'll learn these lessons about dysfunctional measurement all over again from the craze over testing in our public schools.

Hiring in a Dysfunctional Job Market 16 November 2007 Brooke Allen A technical professional from the finance industry describes some innovative ways to uncover hidden talent.

The president and Congress must reach at least three additional objectives for the U.S. to rehabilitate its alarmingly dysfunctional health care system: 1) figure out a way to lower medical costs, which threaten to bankrupt the country if they continue spiraling upward; 2) improve the health outcomes of its patients; and 3) make health care affordable for businesses and individuals.

If researchers can work out the skin microbiome and its relationship with complement, they might be able to tweak the microbial population one way or another to, for instance, modulate complement activation in patients with diseases that are in part caused by dysregulated or dysfunctional signaling, for example, psoriasis.

Now, scientists at the Salk Institute have uncovered an unexpected way in which cells trigger this critical response to threats, offering insight into disorders such as mitochondrial disease, cancer, diabetes and neurodegenerative disease — particularly Parkinson's disease, which is linked to dysfunctional mitochondria.

Sleep deprivation and poor sleep quality create significant problems in the ways our bodies deal with glucose, with dysfunctional sleep leading to lower glucose tolerance and lower insulin sensitivity.

By the way, ligament laxity (usually from adrenal stress) in the wrist can also cause a problem similar to that of a dysfunctional pronator quadratus.