Sentences with phrase «of social dysfunction»

Indigenous peoples should endeavour to strengthen their capacities to control and manage their own affairs and to participate effectively in all decisions affecting them,... and should make all efforts to address any issues of social dysfunction within their communities, including with respect to women and children.

Connect the dots between multiple strands of global scientific research into various forms of social dysfunction

I know this may sound heretical, since anyone who has spent more than a minute in an inner city school or neighborhood (see my Ed Next story on two Chicago charters) knows the intensity of the social dysfunction — and no school is immune to its effects.

by Walter Chaw Packed to the gills with what ails Czech life, Jan Hrebejk's Up and Down (Horem pádem) is a roundelay of social dysfunction, encompassing in 108 frantic minutes what feels like everything that's gone wrong with the Republic in the last twenty years.

Director Scott Cooper, whose 2009 critically acclaimed «Crazy Heart» examined the wasted days and nights of a washed - up country singer, has chosen to pick at another thread of social dysfunction in «Out of the Furnace.»

The Dunedin data showed that just over a fifth of the population accounts for the bulk of the social costs: crime, welfare payments, hospitalizations, cigarette purchases, fatherless child - rearing, and other indicators of social dysfunction.

He regularly found himself in hot water for politically charged rhetoric — much as he does today — aimed at black Milwaukeeans he believed were in a state of social dysfunction.

Not exact matches

They'll have organized social and cultural events, and monthly team challenges in exchange for a year of participation in the city's hoped for transformation from poster child of urban dysfunction to rejuvenated metropolis.

For example, in «Crime, Drugs, Welfare — and Other Good News,» a recent and somewhat contrarian article in Commentary, Peter Wehner and Yuval Levin applauded the fact that various measures of social disaster and dysfunction seem to be improving from previous lows, including, among others, violent crime and property crime, and teen alcohol and tobacco use.

The Enlightenment belief that logical thinking and education alone, without any consideration of other factors apart from ignorance such as the survival instinct and clinical cognitive dysfunction in the formation of behavior patterns, can solve all of our individual and social ills is the fundamental heresy of the Enlightenment philosophy.

In the 1950's, Paul Lazarsfeld suggested that one of the major social effects of the mass media is what he called their narcotising dysfunction effect.)

Statistically, however, religiosity is correlated with social dysfunction — not anything to be proud of.

The symptoms are very similar to the social dysfunction of autism.

It is for this reason that it is imperative to offer an educational youth program that will raise awareness of the social conditions that are perpetuating this dis - ease and offer tools that will help our youth put an end to the lineage of abuse, maltreatment, and dysfunction.

Kids today appear to be learning their social skills from each other (e.g., classroom, daycare) and not from their parents — or perhaps their parents themselves were raised without compassion - hence the cycle of dysfunction rolls along.in yet another generation.

The etiology of PPD is unclear and is varied from woman to woman, but certain factors are suspected to contribute to its development: hormonal fluctuations, any preexisting medical problems, personal or family history of depression, marital dysfunction or general lack of support and social network, immaturity and low self - esteem, negative feelings about the pregnancy, lack of sleep, financial concerns, premature or special needs child, multiple pregnancy, traumatic birth, chronic stress factors, and neurotransmitter deficiencies.

«When scientists set out to look for the causes of the Allee effect in the past, they have tended to focus on intrinsic parameters, such as the difficulty finding a mate, inbreeding or social dysfunction in small populations,» explains Elliott.

Autism spectrum disorder is a group of neurological dysfunctions ranging from hyperactivity to Asperger's syndrome, resulting in challenges in thinking, talking, recognizing and expressing emotion, and social interactions.

With its implication of personal failure and social dysfunction, few childhood barbs burn quite so deeply as «Quitter.»

The inability of the brain to adjust the size of eye movement may not only be a marker for cerebellum dysfunction, but it may also help explain the communication and social interaction deficits that many individuals with ASD experience.

Little is known about the underlying mechanisms of this deficit in facial affect recognition, which may contribute to social dysfunction.

Debilitating dysfunctions of social interactions are encountered in 3 % of the population — in autism, conduct disorder or psychopathy — with severe consequences both for the patients and those close to them.

The possibility of integrating bioinspired robots in groups of live social animals may constitute a valuable tool to study the basis of social behavior and uncover the fundamental determinants of animal functions and dysfunctions.

Dysfunction of these mechanisms drives diseases such as cancers, in which social controls on multicellularity fail, and autoimmune disorders, in which distinctions between self and non-self are disrupted.

The root cause of mental health issues is part physical imbalance (e.g., chronic inflammation, thyroid dysfunction, autoimmunity, hormone imbalance, blood sugar dysregulation, chronic sleep deprivation), and part psychospiritual (e.g., history of trauma, cognitive distortions, social isolation, chronic stress, living out of alignment with the way human beings evolved to thrive — eating real food, moving their bodies, sleeping in darkness, breathing fresh air, drinking clean water, seeing the sun, connected to nature, and deeply rooted in community).

Although a lot of progress has been accomplished in the research of autism, there are hardly any effective treatments and not one that directly targets the core social dysfunction.

Social commentary of a slightly different kind, Mike Binder's The Upside of Anger is the sort of upper class dysfunction opera that's fallen on hard times (The Safety of Objects, Fallen Angels, A Home At The End of the World, Imaginary Heroes) since the glory days of American Beauty and The Ice Storm, finding itself rejuvenated after a fashion in the smart, warm performances of Joan Allen and Kevin Costner.

From behind the mask's blue eyes comes the menacing purr of Michael Fassbender, yet this is the project that should have been called «Shame»: co-writers Jon Ronson («The Men Who Stare at Goats») and Peter Straughan («Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy») turn the frontman's prop into a potent symbol of artistic freedom and painful social dysfunction alike.

The New York - based filmmaker's wonderfully caustic sense of humor and fetish for familial and social dysfunction are...

His last two films, 2013's Exit Elena and this year's Soft in the Head, are both brisk sprints of familial and social dysfunction, but one gets the sense that these types of stories are happening all over, and with his next film, Uncertain Terms, already slated to premiere at this year's Los Angeles Film Festival, it's clear Silver is anxious to tell them.

Three years after Russia's preeminent contemporary auteur Andrey Zvyagintsev scored a nomination for his muscular political allegory «Leviathan,» he returns to the race with «Loveless,» a similarly sprawling, sobering study of social and familial dysfunction in his country.

Smashed: Alcohol isn't just the great social lubricant: it can also be the glue holding troubled relationships together in a state of inebriated dysfunction.

«While principals benefit from the extensive management and leadership development routinely available within the business sector, business leaders are given the opportunity to gain valuable insight into the immense complexity, ambiguity and challenges faced by school principals and the social issues that drive some of the major dysfunction in South African society.»

The rationale for granting school choice special treatment is simple: without access to quality schools, students have a higher chance of dropping out, dealing with family dysfunction, committing crimes or going to prison, failing to find employment, abusing drugs and alcohol, experiencing poor health, and having to cope with a variety of other social ills.

Other symptoms of cognitive dysfunction may include disorientation, engaging less frequently in social interaction and forgetting previously learned behaviors.

Glassford is fascinated by objects that have links to social commentary, and the dichotomies of feminine and masculine, function and dysfunction, are incorporated into his art practice, alongside larger themes that emerge from these starting points.

Embodying a history of dysfunction, rejection, and abandonment, her massive accumulations of commonly discarded objects are transformed into dazzling constructions ripe with powerful emotional and social commentary.

In her first exhibition with Metro Pictures, Camille Henrot presents a series of drawings and sculptural works that portray the dysfunctions and inadequacies of social relationships.

It is the danger of «sudden» climactic shift leading to agricultural distress and global economic jeopardy — encouraging social dysfunction and warfare — that I am concerned about.

The social dysfunction of AGW is really deep.

We know that Brazil, Russia, India, China will all continue to get a good chuckle at the self - defeating and hypocritical ideology and the cultural and social dysfunction of Western socialists who have become blinded to truth by their hatred of capital and productive in their search for their secular, socialist Utopia.

In general, the original C (social dysfunction) and D (depression) scales of the GHQ - 28 were more stable than the A (somatic symptoms) and B (anxiety) scales.

Despite the 50 - year War on Poverty, the social safety net, and the War on Drugs, poverty and social dysfunction of various sorts appear undented.

The changes are likely to reinforce the artificiality and alienating nature of these communities, and to add to their social dysfunction.

In fact, childhood stressors such as abuse, witnessing domestic violence, and other forms of household dysfunction are highly interrelated23, 24 and have a graded relationship to numerous health and social problems.23 - 28 We examined the relationship of 8 adverse childhood experiences (childhood abuse [emotional, physical, and sexual], witnessing domestic violence, parental separation or divorce, and living with substance - abusing, mentally ill, or criminal household members) to the lifetime risk of suicide attempts.

Those who act in a way that is «atypical» to their gender (e.g., a girl who is «one of the guys») may have greater social dysfunction because they experience «gender policing,» where they are stigmatized and picked on by their peers.14

Unlike family instability and dysfunction, which fall under the jurisdiction of child welfare agencies, LD can be identified and addressed within the school system and may serve as an early marker of social and developmental risk.

This has been a major issue in Australia where the foisting of a variety of «community» council structures on settlements and missions in Australia from the late 1960's on in the name of «self - management» or «self - determination» contributed to undermining traditional authority structures, had little credibility in the eyes of community members, and may well have contributed to the social dysfunction that has developed in many communities over the past 20 to 30 years - in Harvard Project terms, there was a monumental lack of cultural fit.

The practice of clinical social work also includes counseling, behavior modification, consultation, client - centered advocacy, crisis intervention, and the provision of needed information and education to clients, when using methods of a psychological nature to evaluate, assess, diagnose, treat, and prevent emotional and mental disorders and dysfunctions (whether cognitive, affective, or behavioral), sexual dysfunction, behavioral disorders, alcoholism, or substance abuse.

A shorter, 28 - item GHQ is proposed consisting of 4 subscales: somatic symptoms, anxiety and insomnia, social dysfunction and severe depression.