Sentences with phrase «normal psychological function»

Not exact matches

When the way we are working starts interfering with normal functions such as sleeping, eating, relationships, social interactions, and physical health, «we know we've tipped the balance,» says Cullen, a past chair of the Division of Education and Child Psychology at The British Psychological Society.

Mohanty said the results could lead to increased understanding of pain pathways and strategies for managing chronic pain, which often leads to severe impairment of normal psychological and physical functions.

Remember, we need cortisol but we don't need normal reproductive function to survive, hence the reason our ovaries take a big hit when we experience ongoing psychological stress.

These «psychological fingerprints» are most directly evident in the narcissistic and borderline symptoms of the child that occur in association with the suppression of the normal - range functioning of the child's attachment system and along with a delusional belief system displayed by the child that the parenting practices of the other parent, the targeted parent, are somehow «abusive» in their inadequacy, when they are not.

The relations between independent predictor variables (measures of immunological and psychological function at entry to the trial, age of onset, and duration of illness) and dependent dichotomous outcome variables (self rated global outcome; presence or absence of caseness on the general health questionnaire at follow up; reduced or normal delayed responses to hypersensitivity skin test) were examined in separate logistic regression analyses.

Stress perturbs the normal physiological or psychological functioning of an individual.

The GHQ - 12 is sensitive to short - term psychiatric conditions and focuses on the inability to carry out normal functions (e.g. «not been able to concentrate on what you're doing») and psychological distress («feeling unhappy or depressed»).

Thus, normal variations in parental psychological functioning and marital adjustment may offer less explanatory value than more extreme or dysfunctional patterns of functioning.