Sentences with phrase «less formal support»

Your partner may have received some support for their eating disorder (whether that's therapy or less formal support), but partners and loved ones rarely report receiving help for themselves [6].

There the long - governing Social Democrats have ruled with more or less formal support from other parties — in the mid-20th century from Agrarians, after 1968 from Communists, and more recently from Greens and ex-Communists — and have thus been able to retain executive power and (in practice) legislative initiative.

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Having, until now, benefited from the tacit (if unenthusiastic) support of the existing political elite, the pro-European lobby has had less incentive to create a formal political movement.

To deal with situations in parliamentary systems where no clear majority to support a government exists, two or more parties may establish a formal coalition government, commanding a clear majority of the parliamentary members, or a party might enter into less formal alliances or agreements with other parties, or individual members, to allow the minority government to stay in office.

While study participants also were much less likely to use any formal sources of assistance or support in resolving problems with cannabis than those whose problems were with other substances, that finding was less common in those who resolved a cannabis problem more recently, which may reflect the increased availability and potency of cannabis in recent years.

Cannabis - primary respondents were even less likely to have used formal treatment or support services than were those resolving problems with illicit drugs — 18 percent versus 42 percent — but were more likely to have participated in drug courts than those who had resolved alcohol problems — 24 percent versus 8 percent.

«They need the networks even more than the students do» because the often - amorphous nature of many appointments provides much less structure and support than a formal graduate program.

L'Inhumaine (1924) is less a film than a portable exhibition, a collection of formal innovations across several artistic disciplines bound by a plot developed just enough to support the weight of its technique.

Natural environments allows for a less formal approach and engender positive learning and meaningful relationships with peers, teachers and supporting adults.

Observational measures also may not adjust well for different teaching contexts and even when educators use these protocols, additional, less formal feedback is necessary to support teachers» development.

During this time, it is important that we learn more about formal assessment data that can help to diagnose our children's strengths and struggles as well as less formal evidence, such as teachers» observations of our children and examples of their work, which can be used as evidence to help identify ways of supporting our children's learning.

First - year teachers often feel underprepared when they first enter the classroom, and are less likely than more experienced teachers to report being well prepared to implement state or district curriculum.45 As a result, nearly one in seven new teachers leaves the classroom before completing their third year, with most citing classroom management, the burden of curriculum freedom, and unsupportive school environments as their greatest stressors.46 Too often, teachers begin their careers in a sink - or - swim situation, with little to no formal induction or support system and inadequate professional learning.47 By providing new teachers with evidence - based professional learning — including through comprehensive, high - quality induction programs — schools and districts can create a more supportive pathway to success in the classroom.

But it's a device that Grabner adopts less out of a concern to interrogate the material support of painting (the pieces are on wood, not canvas, after all) than an interest in the kinds of play such formal and referential overlappings make possible; games of repetition, variation, and invention.

In addition, the program supports inter-curricular faculty work by having traditional «doctrinal» faculty teach LA&W while at the same time traditional «legal writing» faculty teach a doctrinal course, with members of both groups working together in regularly scheduled teaching meetings and in less formal settings.

Yet less than a third of law firms engage in formal succession planning, and scarcely any firms offer encouragement or support to partners in connection with retirement.

For those families who are not lifted out of poverty by formal child support payments, the assistance can still help close the «poverty gap» that these families face.3 In addition to the economic benefits, child support payments are associated with greater academic achievement and fewer externalizing problems in children.4, 5,6 Previous research also shows that fathers who voluntarily establish paternity are more likely to pay child support (despite being less likely to have a child support order), to pay more over the long term, and to increase their payments over time.7

Mothers with some formal support were less likely to have one or more negative feelings about being a parent.

Mothers with more formal parenting support were less likely to have highly authoritarian attitudes, high levels of home chaos and unrestricted TV use (Figure 6.5).

They also had a less warm relationship, although here differences between mothers with and without formal support were small (Figure 6.10).

Although parents routinely depend on these formal supports, their effect on parental distress and well - being is less clear.