Sentences with phrase «psychological conflicts which»

Is AA's effectiveness in producing long - term sobriety the result of the resolving of psychological conflicts which lie at the roots of alcoholism, or is it the result of an effective means of keeping the conflicts repressed or under control?

Not exact matches

In Bargaining for Advantage, Shell urges the reader to figure out his or her own hard - wired approach to negotiation, perhaps by way of a psychological test like that Thomas - Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument, which will tell you whether you are a «competitor» or a «collaborator.»

The chaos and psychological insecurity of our world, the confusion and conflict of values regarding drinking and drunkenness, the traumatic circumstances to which many children are subjected — these are a part of the sickness of our society of which the sickness of alcoholism is one manifestation.

The theme of the self's inner conflict and its bondage to powers which can not be broken by effort appears again in the psychological story of mental illness.

But the film also has too many memorable vignettes to count: Haven Hamilton's prickly recording session, where he mercilessly browbeats a hippie pianist; Barbara Jean's squirmily uncomfortable, rambling psychological meltdown while performing live for an impatient, unforgiving audience; Sueleen's conflicted ambitions when her «big break» devolves into a cheap striptease act; gentle Mr. Green's quiet suffering at the hands of his flakey niece; John Triplette's negotiations with various talent, buttering each of them up with compliments while at the same time insulting the musical form (and its admirers) in which they practice.

Figuring that by now viewers have become jaded with the predictable, cross double - cross triple - cross trajectory of your average con film, «Matchstick Men» also offers a psychological profile of a conflicted, conscience - plagued career criminal, and throws a credible family drama into the mix for good measure — all of which makes for a surprisingly substantial film whose many facets leave you with plenty more to digest after the final credits have rolled than just who did what to whom and how (although it certainly has that too).

Xavier Cha's piece explores the body and subjectivity, capturing actors» efforts to express conflicting emotions, and the tense states of physical and psychological discord which result.

Family law is a unique species of civil law for many reasons, but primarily because of: the frequency with which disputes brought to court concern social, psychological and emotional issues rather than legal; the almost complete absence of circumstances in which a specific legal conclusion invariably and inevitably results from a particular set of facts; and, the range of other areas of the law that may be concurrently applicable, such as contracts, tax, conflicts, real property, negligence, torts and trusts.

Given that the moderation of conflict is a critical psychological, social, legal and economic value, it also stands to reason that certainty would inform the manner in which social policy is expressed through legislation, particularly in family law matters.

As a part of all our work, we assess the underlying psychological and mathematical dynamics of your conflict — which sometimes involves legal analysis — and provide you with an effective solution set, effective responses, and action steps that meet with your budget and save you money, time, and stress.

It is the tension between this very elastic provision, which is part of the existing LPC Scope of Practice, and the clause in our law that explicitly states that those licensed under our law are not authorized to perform psychological testing, that has been the source of the conflict between psychologists and LPCs since our law was first enacted.

In research conducted by Amie Gordon and Serena Chen from University of California Berkeley, to be published in Social Psychological and Personality Science, participants completed a brief online survey each day for two weeks, in which they reported on on their sleep quality (how long they slept, how many times they woke up during the night, how alert they felt upon waking, and how tired they felt during the day) and relationship conflict.1 Over the two - week study, people who slept worse on average reported more day - to - day conflict with their partners.

Terror - management theory proposes that humans face a unique psychological conflict: we desire to live but realize the inevitability of death, which induces terror that we alleviate by ensuring immortality through cultural (e.g. belief in an afterlife) and biological (e.g. reproducing) means [5,6].

High spouse conflict and low spouse closeness may place both partners and patients at risk for general psychological distress, which, for patients, has been linked to poor self - management and poor metabolic control (42,43).

Moreover, Chen and colleagues [1] showed that relationship conflict reduces group members» psychological empowerment and their affective commitment to the group, which in turn decrease the likelihood of them engaging in teamwork behaviors.