Sentences with phrase «patterns of interactions maintain»

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.

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Birch and Cobb maintain that the ecological model is more adequate than the mechanical model for explaining DNA, the cell, other biological subject matter (as well as subatomic physics), because it holds that living things behave as they do only in interaction with other things which constitute their environment (LL 83) and because «the constituent elements of the structure at each level (of an organism) operate in patterns of interconnectedness which are not mechanical» (LL 83).
I have advanced training in Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy, which is an approach that focuses on helping couples gain awareness of and resolve the problematic patterns of interaction that maintain their distress.»
One of the most empirically validated approaches within the field of couple therapy, EFCT focuses on helping partners reprocess the emotional responses that maintain their negative interaction patterns.
Couples are encouraged to learn new healthy patterns of interaction, both verbally and behaviorally, to assist them in developing and maintaining a productive, growing, committed and satisfying relationship for life.
Family Therapy — By focusing on patterns of interaction within the family, I provide family members with tools to create and maintain lasting and successful relationships.
Instead of focusing exclusively on improving specific adherence behaviors, therapy should address instrumental outcomes, such as improving family communication patterns and reducing factors that promote and maintain conflictual interaction patterns specific to diabetes management (or inhibit warm and caring relationships).
Of particular importance is ameliorating ineffective parental responses to externalizing problems that may promote and maintain argumentative interaction patterns regarding diabetes management.
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