I help them to identify and put into place,
positive patterns of interaction that encourage each to turn toward each other to feel safe, desired, and loved.
While a «
positive pattern of interaction» will build each person, and the relationship, up, a «negative pattern of interaction» will usually tear each person, and the relationship, down.
Not exact matches
In my talk, I described the park as a
positive example
of what the biologist Erle C. Ellis calls «anthromes» — «ecological
patterns created by sustained direct human
interactions with ecosystems.»
Although this study only examined
positive (capitalization)
interactions, more avoidantly - attached individuals show similar
patterns during a discussion
of relationship conflict: compared to the behavior ratings
of third - party observers, individuals higher in attachment avoidance report less responsiveness in terms
of both their own and their partner's behavior.5
We strive to accomplish improving relationships by: Identifying the sources
of negative
interaction styles, Correcting problematic
patterns of behavior, Eliminating blockages that prevent
positive emotional reciprocity, Helping rebuild strong emotional connections.
Parenting Support will look at some common negative
patterns in our
interactions and will present a variety
of positive alternatives.
Reciprocity in Relationships: a) Highlight parent's and child's love and understanding for each other; b) Support expression
of positive and negative feelings for important people; c) Foster ability to understand the other's perspective; d) Talk about ways that parent and child are different and autonomous; e) Develop interventions to change maladaptive
patterns of interactions.
· Parents reporting noticeable
positive changes in the parent / child
interaction,
patterns of relating and / or behaviours.
Changing the negative
patterns that partners co-create together and creating
positive interaction patterns that invite new feelings
of closeness and attachment is an important part
of this work.
In a recently published study, Sue, along with neuroscientist Jim Coan and colleagues, demonstrated that not only can couples learn to replace their negative
patterns of interaction with
positive ones, but that in doing so they change how their brains are wired to depend more on each other, and reduce their negative reactions to stressful situations.
The results revealed that (1) for females and males, higher levels
of depressive symptoms correlated with a more depressive attributional style; (2) females and males who met diagnostic criteria for a current depressive disorder evidenced more depres - sogenic attributions than psychiatric controls, and never and past depressed adolescents; (3) although no sex differences in terms
of attributional
patterns for
positive events, negative events, or for
positive and negative events combined emerged, sex differences were revealed on a number
of dimensional scores; (4) across the Children's Attributional Style Questionnaire (CASQ) subscale and dimensional scores, the relation between attributions and current self - reported depressive symptoms was stronger for females than males; and (5) no Sex × Diagnostic Group Status
interaction effects emerged for CASQ subscale or dimensional scores.
Although the
positive relationships dimension
of PWB moderated the relationship between fear
of anxiety and change in generalized anxiety, the
pattern of the
interaction was in the opposite direction
of our prediction.
Second, to extend past observational research that focused on broad, global categories
of positive and negative
interaction patterns as a mediator, we focused on maternal warmth and maternal psychological control, two more specific mother — child
interactions that are known to be related to both maternal depression as well as child mental health.