Sentences with phrase «patterns of blame»

In the present article, we present the detailed analysis of one of the identified patterns of blame allocation, in which family members are shown to construct the identified patient's deviation from normality as the cause of their difficulties while the therapist is shown to attempt to exonerate blame from the identified patient by means of positive connotation.

Patterns of blame, withdrawal, and aggression contributed to increased distress, which eventually led these couples to counseling, some with mixed - agendas for services.

They had some successes, but struggled with relapsing into old patterns of blame and criticism.

An opportunity arises when a couple addresses old patterns of blame, anger and resentment.

I had fallen into a pattern of blaming God for my failures.

Together they were able to hear each others side, break patterns of blaming and come - up with a plan that involved change on each side.

Without the help of a skilled Couples Therapist, you are likely to get stuck pointing fingers at one another in an escalating pattern of blaming and shaming.

I have seen reluctant spouses become more curious and willing to see therapy as helpful when the other spouse stops the pattern of blame, fingerpointing or distancing and focuses instead on making personal changes for the better.

Not exact matches

During the quarter, Lilly's animal health revenues fell 9 % year - over-year to $ 706.2 million, which the company blamed on irregular wholesale buying patterns in companion animal health and an overall drop in demand on the food - animal side of the business.

Blame it in no small part on the persistent bearishness and downright ugly chart pattern of Apple ($ AAPL), a former market leader and heavily - weighted stock within the Nasdaq 100 Index.

This sort of pattern continues throughout the entire Bible, even if the human tendency to blame God is not always so evident.

The attempt to blame society, under whatever form of government, party rule, or social pattern, for the ills that afflict us is one of the most absurd attempts at alibi - ing oneself out of difficulties that the ingenious and sinful mind of man has ever devised.

«The people I kept meeting who didn't fit the pattern were largely ignored or shoehorned in,» reports Justin, «forced to revisit their childhood memories over and over until they found some sort of problem to blame everything on.»

It blamed pressure on both price and margin in the Chinese market, which was being driven by changing market dynamics, changing patterns of consumption and a less affluent demographic.

I hope some people who ignorantly blame Wenger for everything will wake up and realize that the low ball bid pattern came at the same time Gazidis 1st start of season and continued year after year including this Jan when Wenger has not been over there to mess it up.

Actually the fans and the manager have no right to blame injuries as they occur EVERY season, Wenger should've seen the pattern by now and realize you can't expect one player to be fit all season at a club with one of the worst injury records in the past 5 years.

It shifts blame for the couples» problems to the negative patterns between them, instead of the couples themselves (or the partners).

Much of the blame can be attributed to a recurring climate pattern known as La Ni ± a, which emerges every few years as surface waters chill in the eastern equatorial Pacific.

One reason: The pattern of gamma - ray photons streaming from the galactic center is clumpy rather than smooth, a strong sign that individual sources of gamma rays (rather than a diffuse cloud of particles that only occasionally interact) may be to blame.

Some of the strongest El Niño patterns ever recorded were blamed for the crippling drought, while an equally intense La Niña brought on the downpours that inundated Queensland.

A new study confirms that thunderstorms are linked to outbreaks of asthma, and researchers suggest that the storms» airflow patterns are to blame rather than other contenders such as thunder, electrical activity, or rain.

My colleagues and I set out to study the patterns that appear in local media coverage of wildfires so that we could better understand what policy problems local journalists bring up, how they assign blame or responsibility, and whether these trends change over time.

In their children, parents identified improved mood, confidence and being less withdrawn, a reduction in guilt and self - blame, reduced depression, anxiety and anger, improved sleep patterns and better understanding of appropriate sexual behaviour.

If you genuinely believe raising the bar so high is going to result in an attainable return or positive results well wake up — this pattern only sets us up for confusion, chaos, blame and a whole bunch of doubt.

This can set up a pattern of self - blame.»

In The Audacity of Hope, President Barack Obama complained that some «liberal policy makers and civil rights leaders had erred» when «in their urgency to avoid blaming the victims of historical racism, they tended to downplay or ignore evidence that entrenched behavioral patterns among the black poor really were contributing to intergenerational poverty.»

Similarly, the National Retail Federation (NRF) is blaming the so - called «trajectory» of 12 months of sales on the extreme weather patterns in January and February.

I blame it on seeing, as a teenager, reproductions of Piet Mondrian's tree paintings from the early 1910s: ever - thickening patterns of branches that flattened space, an evolution from figuration to some sort of Platonic essence of tree.

Moshi — Climate change, blamed on heavy environmental degradation on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, has dealt a devastating blow on farmers as almost all cash and food crops have been affected by this year's unreliable weather patterns, it has been revealed.

In effect, any pattern of weather change could be blamed on it — but a hypothesis that predicts anything and can't be proven false is not science

Much of the blame can be attributed to a recurring climate pattern known as La Nina, which emerges every few years as surface waters chill in the eastern equatorial Pacific.

«We can say the pattern existing a present fits with expectations, but the finger of blame can not (yet!)

In this way, we can assign blame for the atmospheric pattern to that of the sea surface temperatures, and the current La Nina.

Illegal logging in the Mexican forests where they spend the winter, new climate patterns and the disappearance of milkweed — the only plant on which monarchs lay their eggs and on which their caterpillars feed — are being blamed for their shrinking numbers.

But the report shared the blame for this «consistent pattern of failing to display the proper degree of openness» between the research unit and the university (13).

Though for half of the recent mass animal death events listed on the map weird weather is to blame, even if different specific weather events: Bucking the global trend of continued are marked warming, the UK just had the coldest December in a century; Australia experienced severe flooding after experiencing recent severe drought and heat; parts of North America have also had the usual weather patterns disrupted.

While it's easy to label and blame one partner as the betrayer, both partners actually played a part in creating and tolerating a pattern of betrayal that leads to broken trust in the relationship.

We will work together to help move you away from self - blame and examine negative thinking / patterns so that you may achieve your goals, improve relationships and regain peace of mind.»

Bill Eddy, who is an attorney, licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), and a well - respected author on this subject, identifies High Conflict Personalities as having a «pattern of negative behavior with four primary characteristics: all - or - none thinking; unmanaged emotions; extreme behavior or threats; and a preoccupation with blaming others.»

Each power struggle in the demand - withdraw pattern ends in a standoff of toddler coping mechanisms - blame, denial, and avoidance.

Helping couples identify their patterns of interaction shifts focus from blaming one of the partners and empowers couples to understand their relationship in a new way.

For example, instead of blaming your partner, recognize your own thoughts, behaviors and regular patterns that are problematic in the marriage and work on changing them.

When they stockpile, they then search for underlying patterns in these irritating partner habits, and come up with an explanation that is their final «You» statement of blame, e.g. «You're always talking about yourself, you don't care about me at all!»

These are predictable patterns that lead to endless cycles of blaming, defensiveness, and stonewalling.

As a family therapists, we may focus more on how patterns of interaction maintain the problem rather than trying to identify the cause, as this can be experienced as blaming by some families.

Soon the blame game, circular arguments, and unproductive patterns of interaction are highlighted and managed.

A bunch of Figs can help break pattern reactivity and blaming others when you are feeling abandoned or rejected.

It shifts blame for the couples» problems to the negative patterns between them, instead of the couples themselves (or the partners).

Before assigning equal blame to the rejected parent we need to differentiate between a pattern of mistreatment and isolated lapses of judgment, between a cause of the alienation and a desperate, helpless, ultimately inadequate response.

FAMILY MATTERS CENTER uses the concepts of Systemic Family Therapy, not placing blame on oneself or others, but works to change our patterns of thinking, communicating, and behaving so that we can get along better with the people we care about.