Sentences with phrase «reducing feelings of isolation»

The social support provided by a pet might also encourage more social interactions with people, reducing feelings of isolation or loneliness.

They also help promote resiliency and reduce feelings of isolation, grief, and loss.

This may reduce the feelings of isolation about their differences in appearances and experiences.

Interaction encourages communication, reduces feelings of isolation and stress and gives the individuals a sense of importance and value in a way that, perhaps only an animal can accomplish.

With «Dignity in Mental Health» being the theme of this year's World Mental Health Day, Cats Protection is keen to highlight how looking after a pet can bring structure to people's day, reduce feelings of isolation and loneliness and even lower blood pressure.

Friends, family and coworkers reduce feelings of isolation that can occur when a relationship ends.

This also helps to reduce feelings of isolation (ie you are not on your own).

Linking with local support groups can help to reduce feelings of isolation and stigma through sharing of information and experiences.

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Also surprising: Young people with the highest rates of social media use reported very similar feelings of loneliness to those who barely use it, Still, Cordani says, «meaningful social interaction» was seen as key to reducing isolation so more face - to - face conversations are needed.

Perhaps by acknowledging them and understanding them better, we can reduce our sense of isolation and guilt and prevent these feelings from festering into a basically destructive relationship — not only for the clergy spouses but for all members of a parsonage family, and for the church as a whole.

Not only does this reduce their sense of isolation, but parents who feel understood by their peers are then able to offer deeper understanding, as well as firm but caring limits, to their children.

When they get behind the wheel of the Avenger, customers will feel more confident, experience less body roll, reduced vehicle motion, improved isolation, better steering precision and increased grip thanks to new premium tires.

Studies show that pet ownership can significantly benefit the elderly in many ways; reduced stress and depression, reduced feeling of loneliness and isolation, and improved health and activity.

Studies have shown that dogs reduce feelings of social isolation in clinical and real world settings (57, 58, 59).

Still using the same reduced palette and depicting feelings of isolation, he now includes more obvious markers of the spaces in less diffused landscapes.

«Environmentalists should reduce their over-reliance on apocalyptic scenarios «that tend to create feelings of helplessness and isolation among would - be supporters,» Shellenberger advises.

These sessions will improve understanding of emotional triggers, help reduce daily stress and feelings of isolation, and increase self - awareness and competencies.

This group seeks to take parenting out of isolation, reduce the judgment new parents often feel (and are tempted to engage in), and draws upon the strengths and expertise that exists in all of us.

The maintenance of the relationship between parent and child has been shown to 1essen the effects of negative peer pressure (Garland, 1927), reduce the feelings of rootlessness, rejection, and isolation (Garfat, 1990) that are common among children in care, and have a positive effect on the behavior of children and their ability to adapt to being in care (Noble & Gibson, 1994).

Participation in these groups reduces isolation and secrecy, helps clients to identify and learn to express feelings, and introduces more effective ways of coping.

(Joshua Coleman, Ph.D., author of When Parents Hurt: Compassionate Strategies When You and Your Grown Child Get Along) Surviving Parental Alienation is a work that will help reduce the emotional isolation that an alienated parent feels.

Linking patients and their carers to local support groups can help reduce feelings of stigma and isolation.

In a group with experientially similar others, parents found understanding and acceptance, which reduced their sense of isolation and enabled them to feel better able to cope.

Although evidence is limited that family support and coaching programs alone can significantly decrease symptoms of clinical depression, family support providers who build trusting relationships with mothers are better able to identify women struggling with depression, connect them to mental health services, reduce new parents» sense of isolation, and improve their ability to ask for help when they feel overwhelmed.3

St. John Ambulance Saskatchewan, Regina, to provide increased training and evaluation for the Therapy Dog Program, which sends dogs and their handlers to various locations throughout the province, where their presence helps reduce feelings of loneliness, depression and isolation in participants.