Sentences with phrase «member in a dysfunctional family»

Simply stated, the principal of homeostasis explains why when one member in a dysfunctional family attempts to change their role (i.e., detach, disengage, get healthier) the family usually responds by trying to change the person back or pull them back into their old familiar role.

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These included three categories of abuse, two of neglect, and five related to growing up in a «seriously dysfunctional household»: witnessing domestic violence, having divorced parents, or having family members who had been incarcerated or had mental illness or substance - abuse problems.

Those two cases had in common the misguided desire of a self - interested adult member of a dysfunctional family to profit by exposing their child to a media storm.

And it features an endearingly dysfunctional family with Jason Bateman and Tina Fey at its center, both of whom wisecrack aplenty as they keep their wackier clan members in check.

Stories We Tell (PG - 13 for mature themes, smoking and brief profanity) Out of the closet documentary dissecting a dysfunctional family's skeletons by interrogating each member of the clan in order to get to the truth.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Angels Crest (R for profanity and sexuality) Dysfunctional family drama chronicling the blame game played in the wake of the accidental death of a toddler (Ameko Eks Mass Carroll) as his estranged parents (Thomas Dekker and Lily Collins) and members of their tight - knit community try to make sense of the tragedy.

Template dysfunctional parents that they are, it takes a tragedy to bring the Weston family together: daughters Barbara (Roberts), Ivy (Nicholson) and Karen (Lewis) and extended family members sister Mattie (Margo Martindale), nephew Little Charles (Cumberbatch, here for his buzz and quite miscast), and brother - in - law Charlie (Cooper) arrive to mourn the departed and tend to a severely addled matriarch.

A dysfunctional family plan on getting together for Christmas, but on Christmas Eve each member is involved in their own story.

That is if dysfunctional family members and moronic best friends don't get in their way too much.

It's a classic dysfunctional family comedy - drama in many respects, with every single family member of the central Jacobs family dealing with some sort of personal trouble: older sister Dana (Slate) with misgivings about her engagement to Ben (Jay Duplass), which she channels into an affair with an old college friend, Nate (Finn Wittrock); younger sister Ali (Abby Quinn) with a rebellious nature that leads her into all - night clubbing and increasingly adventurous drug use; and their on - the - outs parents, Pat (Edie Falco) and Alan (John Turturro), the stagnation of their marriage only magnified when Ali discovers her father indulging in his own philandering.

Leaving aside the fact that none of these folks look like they belong in the same gene pool (and The Wire has a funny article about how only one of the actors in the film is actually Jewish), the premise has promise, since forcing the members of a dysfunctional family (and there is much «dys» here) to spend time in a small space could lead to some funny results.

«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.

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.

«I utilize a «systemic» approach to treating addiction and will teach family member's how to actively participate in their love ones treatment and at the same time teach them specific techniques to eliminate codependency, as well as dysfunctional and enabling behaviors, and establish healthy boundaries, so the entire family system gets well».

It originated in the early 50's when doctors working with schizophrenic patients noticed that the communication dynamic between all the family members was dysfunctional and the symptoms of the patients intensified when there was more conflict within the family.

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