Sentences with phrase «in dysfunctional homes»

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.

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.

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...

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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....

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.

«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 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.

* 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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

«August: Osage County» in 2008, which explores the lives of several members of a dysfunctional family, the Westons, who travel to their childhood home headed by patriarch Beverly Weston (Shepard, Out of the Furnace) and his wife Violet (Streep, It's Complicated), who is afflicted with cancer of the mouth (both literally and figuratively) that causes her to seek a variety of prescription medications that, while alleviating the pain, also makes her exceedingly ornery to others.

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.

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The mentees who participated in the program demonstrated lagging performance in reading, dysfunctional family structures, low socioeconomic status, and a lack of a print - rich home environment, based on the input from the school counselor, social worker, and classroom teacher.

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.

By the second chapter, you've fallen in love with the hilariously dysfunctional Foxman clan, who return to their childhood home on Long Island for seven days to sit shiva for their dead father.

A group home, or her dysfunctional birth parents, or bouncing from home to home would never equal what the love of two professionals, one trained in medicine and one in education, could offer.

Many individuals grow up in homes that are dysfunctional, neighborhoods that are violent, environments that seem to starve their minds, yet somehow they manage to salvage their minds, to discover some ways of learning and succeeding despite biographical odds that are so stacked against them.

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.

Once I left home, learned a bit about my contemporary's family lives, and saw some really dysfunctional mother / daughter relationships I realized I was pretty lucky in the Mom Lottery.

A child who suffers living in a dysfunctional family may try to run away from home and land from the frying pan, into the fire.

In retrospect, it is no surprise that during my return flight I struggled to enter the world of Tell the Wolves I'm Home, Carol Rifka Blunt's debut set within a stilted, dysfunctional family household.

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.

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.

Richard Billingham, the photographer who has made art out of images of his dysfunctional family, in their tower block home which his alcoholic father Ray rarely lives, is also nominated for his recent startling change of direction to deserted urban streetscapes under blazing blue skies.

Dysfunctional family structure including poor marital relationship, absent caregiver, substance abuse in the home

If the biological parent in the other home is dysfunctional, your stepchild feels pulled toward that parent.

Gedwill's mindset is common among those who owned homes during the crash, and it's a factor in the still - dysfunctional housing market, according to market analysts.

Style at Home editor - in - chief Erin McLaughlin reimagines her dim and dysfunctional basement games room as a bright multi-purpose space with Scandi flair.