Sentences with phrase «immediate social context»

Strategic family therapy combines a strategic approach to finding a constructive form of change for individuals within the individual's immediate social context — namely the family.

The disturbance in behavior is associated with distress in the individual or others in his or her immediate social context (e.g., family, peer group, work colleagues), or it impacts negatively on social, educational, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.

How adequate are descriptions of the immediate social context of the individual and community?

At the same time, the school's transactions with its neighborhood inescapably teach certain concepts to its own members, that is, teach certain capacities and abilities about how to lead an institution in its relationships with its immediate social context.

Not exact matches

That is, many contemporary theologies tend to believe that we can derive the normative content of faith, truth and justice directly from the immediate contexts of our social, economic and political situations; at the same time, other contemporary theologies have abandoned even trying to argue that theological claims are in any sense normative.

First, I would affirm the viability of ministry with students from a locus outside the immediate social and political context of the university or college.

If we sincerely trust that the promise of divine fidelity provides the ultimate context within which to live out our lives, we will not feel obliged to cling too tenaciously to immediate social arrangements in order to find the approval we desire.

It has also meant making links between formal and informal sectors, urban and rural livelihoods, coastal and forest livelihoods, private and public interventions, social conflicts, economic thinking, agriculture, fisheries, environment, poverty alleviation, and subjective and objective wellbeing analyses in order to approach things from a humanitarian and educative and inclusive dimension that will be relevant to my immediate contexts which is Africa and the rest of the world.