Sentences with phrase «of alternative behaviors»

Clients are assisted in the identification of triggers and patterns of use, followed by the development of alternative behaviors, coping skills and a relapse prevention plan.

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«The important piece here,» McGinn explains, «is that you're offering a set of alternatives around what's appropriate behavior for boys and for girls, and that those alternatives aren't constrained by really tight gender stereotypes.»

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This alternative to the regular Consumer Price Index takes into account an economic phenomenon called the substitution effect, which reflects changes in consumer behavior when prices of substitutable goods move in different directions.

Following the publication of a report in July 2017, North Korea's elites, some of the country's few citizens allowed on the Internet, have greatly altered their online behavior, and are now obfuscating their browsing activity, and have ditched US websites like Facebook or Instagram for alternative Chinese social networks.

It needed an alternative to ad - hoc surveys, which only provide point - in - time snapshots of customer behaviors and attitudes.

«Buyer Scenario Modeling is the process of analyzing research - based modeling of possible events, nurturing scenarios, buying scenarios, buying behaviors, buying decisions, and alternative future outcomes.»

I argued that religion, as a compendium of stories, a system of ethics, and a model of behavior could be drawn upon as a popular alternative to norms and ideals of competitive consumer capitalism.

According to the national economics standards, students should be taught only the «majority paradigm» or «neoclassical model» of economic behavior, for to include «strongly held minority views of economic processes risks confusing and frustrating teachers and students, who are then left with the responsibility of sorting the qualifications and alternatives without a sufficient foundation to do so.»

Frank, one assumes, would quarrel with this way of putting his argument, but he offers no alternative explanation for how millions of middle Americans are so blind to their real interests and so self - destructive in their political behavior.

Most economists spend no time at all exploring this alternative dimension of economic behavior simply because it is not mathematically tractable.

The Penguin History of Economics defines economics as «a science which studies human behavior as a relationship between ends and scarce means with alternative uses».

As the institutional pressures of the economy change, alternative behaviors will supplant this shortsightedness, but this will not happen without a political and legal restructuring of the corporation's place in the society.

In this third set of meanings coercion refers to the inducement of behavior through the application of extrinsic motivation, and persuasion refers to the communication of information about the natural consequences which will occur with various alternative behaviors.

The implications of expressing the thesis as such an equation are (1) if the viewed action is not at all salient for the person (i.e., = 0) the action will not affect the viewer's behavior («act»); (2) the chance that a particular viewed action will affect a person's behavior will decrease to the extent that they have other alternatives in their «repertoire»; and (3) if the individual is not aroused to act he will not exhibit the viewed behavior, no matter how salient it is.

The extent to which television is able to add new, salient alternatives to the person's repertoire is dependent on gaining the person's attention, achieving retention of the behavior, and the person's ability and motivation to perform the act.

So is the food program that drastically changed the behavior of delinquent teens at an alternative high school in Wisconsin.

I don't know if I have made alternative parenting choices because of the pin but I know that pin mammas have been great in helping me understand normal kid behavior especially with Joseph.

There are hundreds of posts on the Little Hearts site with gentle parenting alternatives to punishment, and every single book I've written gives specific tools for working with children through specific behavior issues.

We feel that it is important for public health workers, teachers and others concerned for the emotional and physical health of children and youth to support the adoption of alternative methods for the achievement of self - control and responsible behavior in children and adolescents.»

«Redirecting Children's Behavior» (Parenting Press, $ 14.95), Kvols» 1979 book, forms the basis of a parenting style based on responding to the underlying reasons for children's misbehavior and encouraging choice and responsibility as alternatives to yelling, spanking and grounding.

Of course, when her behavior does matter and she might get hurt or she might hurt someone else, alternatives to no just won't cut it.

The types of treatment options include medication to help with some symptoms, behavior and education therapy, parent training, and other alternative approaches.

Address this behavior by providing alternative, safe methods of stimulation.

But that's irrelevant to the spirit of the question, since (1) Democratic politicians in fossil fuel states pretty much do the same thing (See West Virginia's Democrat Manchin); and (2) Such behavior is really industry agnostic, and every politician of every party whose constituents are over-represented in a particular industry will of course behave the same way about competing disruptive industry; and (3) The main opposition is not on alternative energy per se, but on measures to tax / disrupt fossil fuel one.

The goals include ending single use plastics, promoting alternatives to fossil fuel - based materials, promoting 100 percent recycling of plastics, corporate and government accountability, and changing human behavior concerning plastics.

The two types of reasoning are part of Fuzzy Trace Theory, which «has emerged as one of the major alternative paradigms to successfully explain adolescents» and adults» risk taking in domains such as health and sexual behaviors,» according to the authors.

In 2005 and 2004, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation funded economic research on alternative corporate governance models, namely the principal / agent and team production models, and their ability to explain both the legal and economic behaviors of public companies.

As an alternative, the U.S. supports a European - led initiative to establish «norms» for proper behavior through the creation of a voluntary International Code of Conduct for Outer Space.

Instead of a taking a clinical approach to reducing opioid abuse, which often involves prescribing alternative medications such as naloxone, the study seeks to change behavior.

«Knowledge of defense and attack mechanisms in bacteria is crucial for future development of potential alternatives to antibiotics,» explains Dr. Daniel Koster, from the department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

As reported in the May issue of Pediatrics, solutions include changing provider prescription behaviors to promote the use of better alternatives to codeine, such as ibuprofen or hydrocodone.

It is not yet known precisely how E. coli is able to defend itself against predatory bacteria, but the research contributes to the understanding of the behavior of the predatory bacteria, which could become a possible alternative to antibiotics in the future.

Developing tests and closely monitoring the virus's behavior in hopes of controlling a human outbreak may be a more realistic alternative, she says.

«A promising alternative to information campaigns would be to give adolescents the opportunity to experience the consequences of their risky behavior — in virtual environments, for example,» adds Hertwig.

He said that the information could even be communicated to drivers of non-autonomous vehicles to use at their discretion to alter their driving behavior, such as voluntarily slowing down or seeking out alternative routes.

Over the years, I have studied a variety of topics, including sperm competition, parental care, alternative reproductive behaviors, female mate choice and sexual conflict.

Meaghan Kennedy - «Neuropeptides and Social Behavior: Gene Sequences for Alternative Versions of the Vasotocin Receptor in the Goldfish Brain.»

The authors of the study explain that their findings suggest that ketogenic diets could also potentially help normalize pathological behaviors in the human model of schizophrenia by providing alternative energy sources via ketones, the products of fat breakdown, which would substitute the abnormally functioning cellular energy pathways in the brains of people suffering from this disease.

The concept of our gut health having such a significant influence over our health and behavior is one of the fundamental principles supporting functional medicine, and the degree of evidence for this idea is largely what makes functional medicine a credible field of western medicine rather than a complementary or alternative therapy.

Our mission is to examine the flawed mindsets and behaviors which are at the root of our sustainability crises and offer alternatives that can form the foundation of a more sustainable world.

Try as he might to dominate her, Marnie just won't crack, leaving Mark no alternative save to solve the mystery of her strange behavior, which includes hatred of men, nightmares, and an irrational fear of the color red.

Rigorous testing of these and alternative explanation for opt - out behavior await better data.

This behavior contrasts sharply with the approach of the alternative, nondistrict chartering authority in D.C., the D.C. Public Charter School Board, which has chartered nearly 20 schools, none of which has been closed.

Of the program - and policy - based alternatives to exclusionary discipline, Steinberg and Lacoe report the most evidence for, and positive effects from, the Schoolwide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS) program, a strategy that aims to change a school culture by setting clear behavioral expectations, laying out a continuum of consequences for infractions, and reinforcing positive behavioOf the program - and policy - based alternatives to exclusionary discipline, Steinberg and Lacoe report the most evidence for, and positive effects from, the Schoolwide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS) program, a strategy that aims to change a school culture by setting clear behavioral expectations, laying out a continuum of consequences for infractions, and reinforcing positive behavioof consequences for infractions, and reinforcing positive behavior.

Alternative methods such as positive reinforcement, understanding negative behavior in context and training of our children's educators is proving to be much more effective in managing the classroom.

In developed countries, the negative side of individualistic and materialistic behavior and values based on competitive principles by market mechanisms has become obvious, and various alternatives have been introduced and being practiced by those with a concern for the planet and a sustainable future.

The most prominent alternative strategy for influencing college - going behavior of low - income students, in - person counseling, typically costs upwards of $ 600 per student.

Top Educator Finds Alternatives to Failure Joris Ray, director of the Memphis City Schools alternative schools, believes that helping students achieve academic success leads to confidence and better behavior.

Interim Superintendent Bolgen Vargas and Houston school administrator Andrew Spencer addressed a number of topics, from managing student behavior in school to alternative education programs.