Sentences with phrase «ongoing physical aggression»

If there is ongoing physical aggression in your relationship, couples counseling is usually not the best choice until internal changes take place in a person that enable the aggressive acts to be controlled.

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Johnston et al. studied 100 low income families involved in ongoing custody disputes that included frequent verbal and physical aggression.

Johnston, 1998, described it as a relationship marked by SOME or all of the following parental behaviors: high degrees of anger and distrust; incidents of verbal abuse; intermittent physical aggression; ongoing difficulty in communicating about the children» ongoing difficulty cooperating in the care of the children; sabotage of children's relationship with the other parent.