Sentences with phrase «social dysfunction in»

Director Scott Cooper, whose 2009 critically acclaimed «Crazy Heart» examined the wasted days and nights of a washed - up country singer, has chosen to pick at another thread of social dysfunction in «Out of the Furnace.»

«When scientists set out to look for the causes of the Allee effect in the past, they have tended to focus on intrinsic parameters, such as the difficulty finding a mate, inbreeding or social dysfunction in small populations,» explains Elliott.

Not exact matches

He regularly found himself in hot water for politically charged rhetoric — much as he does today — aimed at black Milwaukeeans he believed were in a state of social dysfunction.

They'll have organized social and cultural events, and monthly team challenges in exchange for a year of participation in the city's hoped for transformation from poster child of urban dysfunction to rejuvenated metropolis.

For example, in «Crime, Drugs, Welfare — and Other Good News,» a recent and somewhat contrarian article in Commentary, Peter Wehner and Yuval Levin applauded the fact that various measures of social disaster and dysfunction seem to be improving from previous lows, including, among others, violent crime and property crime, and teen alcohol and tobacco use.

The Enlightenment belief that logical thinking and education alone, without any consideration of other factors apart from ignorance such as the survival instinct and clinical cognitive dysfunction in the formation of behavior patterns, can solve all of our individual and social ills is the fundamental heresy of the Enlightenment philosophy.

In the 1950's, Paul Lazarsfeld suggested that one of the major social effects of the mass media is what he called their narcotising dysfunction effect.)

The circuit incorporates brain regions involved in reward and pleasure, leading the authors to consider that social dysfunction may stem from reduced enjoyment in social interaction.

Autism spectrum disorder is a group of neurological dysfunctions ranging from hyperactivity to Asperger's syndrome, resulting in challenges in thinking, talking, recognizing and expressing emotion, and social interactions.

Little is known about the underlying mechanisms of this deficit in facial affect recognition, which may contribute to social dysfunction.

Debilitating dysfunctions of social interactions are encountered in 3 % of the population — in autism, conduct disorder or psychopathy — with severe consequences both for the patients and those close to them.

The possibility of integrating bioinspired robots in groups of live social animals may constitute a valuable tool to study the basis of social behavior and uncover the fundamental determinants of animal functions and dysfunctions.

In the most common FTD subtype, behavioral variant FTD, patients present with social dysfunction, apathy, disinhibition, repetitive behavior, and other behavioral abnormalities (Rascovsky et al., 2011; Karageorgiou and Miller, 2014).

Dysfunction of these mechanisms drives diseases such as cancers, in which social controls on multicellularity fail, and autoimmune disorders, in which distinctions between self and non-self are disrupted.

The root cause of mental health issues is part physical imbalance (e.g., chronic inflammation, thyroid dysfunction, autoimmunity, hormone imbalance, blood sugar dysregulation, chronic sleep deprivation), and part psychospiritual (e.g., history of trauma, cognitive distortions, social isolation, chronic stress, living out of alignment with the way human beings evolved to thrive — eating real food, moving their bodies, sleeping in darkness, breathing fresh air, drinking clean water, seeing the sun, connected to nature, and deeply rooted in community).

Although a lot of progress has been accomplished in the research of autism, there are hardly any effective treatments and not one that directly targets the core social dysfunction.

Social commentary of a slightly different kind, Mike Binder's The Upside of Anger is the sort of upper class dysfunction opera that's fallen on hard times (The Safety of Objects, Fallen Angels, A Home At The End of the World, Imaginary Heroes) since the glory days of American Beauty and The Ice Storm, finding itself rejuvenated after a fashion in the smart, warm performances of Joan Allen and Kevin Costner.

A comedian whose schtick has always been his acute social - sexual dysfunction, in «What Planet Are You From?»

His last two films, 2013's Exit Elena and this year's Soft in the Head, are both brisk sprints of familial and social dysfunction, but one gets the sense that these types of stories are happening all over, and with his next film, Uncertain Terms, already slated to premiere at this year's Los Angeles Film Festival, it's clear Silver is anxious to tell them.

Three years after Russia's preeminent contemporary auteur Andrey Zvyagintsev scored a nomination for his muscular political allegory «Leviathan,» he returns to the race with «Loveless,» a similarly sprawling, sobering study of social and familial dysfunction in his country.

by Walter Chaw Packed to the gills with what ails Czech life, Jan Hrebejk's Up and Down (Horem pádem) is a roundelay of social dysfunction, encompassing in 108 frantic minutes what feels like everything that's gone wrong with the Republic in the last twenty years.

Smashed: Alcohol isn't just the great social lubricant: it can also be the glue holding troubled relationships together in a state of inebriated dysfunction.

«While principals benefit from the extensive management and leadership development routinely available within the business sector, business leaders are given the opportunity to gain valuable insight into the immense complexity, ambiguity and challenges faced by school principals and the social issues that drive some of the major dysfunction in South African society.»

[Selta] Carter viewed dysfunction as a given in the Newark schools, and she spent her social capital shielding her daughter from it.

I know this may sound heretical, since anyone who has spent more than a minute in an inner city school or neighborhood (see my Ed Next story on two Chicago charters) knows the intensity of the social dysfunction — and no school is immune to its effects.

Other symptoms of cognitive dysfunction may include disorientation, engaging less frequently in social interaction and forgetting previously learned behaviors.

In her first exhibition with Metro Pictures, Camille Henrot presents a series of drawings and sculptural works that portray the dysfunctions and inadequacies of social relationships.

We know that Brazil, Russia, India, China will all continue to get a good chuckle at the self - defeating and hypocritical ideology and the cultural and social dysfunction of Western socialists who have become blinded to truth by their hatred of capital and productive in their search for their secular, socialist Utopia.

In general, the original C (social dysfunction) and D (depression) scales of the GHQ - 28 were more stable than the A (somatic symptoms) and B (anxiety) scales.

In fact, childhood stressors such as abuse, witnessing domestic violence, and other forms of household dysfunction are highly interrelated23, 24 and have a graded relationship to numerous health and social problems.23 - 28 We examined the relationship of 8 adverse childhood experiences (childhood abuse [emotional, physical, and sexual], witnessing domestic violence, parental separation or divorce, and living with substance - abusing, mentally ill, or criminal household members) to the lifetime risk of suicide attempts.

A reduction in the intervention group social dysfunction subscale was also observed at the immediate follow up.

However, problems with pregnancy (including cigarette smoking during pregnancy) and / or delivery, head injuries, toxin exposure, heavy marijuana use beginning in early adolescence, marital or family dysfunction, and low social class have all been associated with ADHD (ADD).

Some research has shown that school refusal can contribute to mental health difficulties, emotional and social problems, exiting school early and occupational dysfunction in later life5 - 6.

Those who act in a way that is «atypical» to their gender (e.g., a girl who is «one of the guys») may have greater social dysfunction because they experience «gender policing,» where they are stigmatized and picked on by their peers.14

This has been a major issue in Australia where the foisting of a variety of «community» council structures on settlements and missions in Australia from the late 1960's on in the name of «self - management» or «self - determination» contributed to undermining traditional authority structures, had little credibility in the eyes of community members, and may well have contributed to the social dysfunction that has developed in many communities over the past 20 to 30 years - in Harvard Project terms, there was a monumental lack of cultural fit.

The four scales of GHQ - 28 (A: somatic symptoms, B: anxiety / insomnia, C: social dysfunction, and D: depression) have been found as a four - factor structure in previous studies [18 - 20].

As a whole, both online and paper - and - pencil results of this study match former works in which scales C (social dysfunction) and D (depression) were more consistent than A (somatic symptoms) and B (anxiety)[33,34].

This program is internationally recognized as the largest clinical graduate social work program in the world, preparing social workers in the prevention of psychosocial dysfunction of individuals in the workplace.

International and domestic evidence links the mental health impacts of dispossession, the removal of children, loss of culture and a general sense of powerlessness that Indigenous peoples have experienced with the social dysfunction that is evident in some Indigenous communities.

Both of these dysfunction domains were associated with impaired academic and social development in children (poor outcomes, peer relationship difficulties, underachievement, and poor personal adjustment)(Hinshaw, 1992; Mash and Barkley, 1996).

Indigenous peoples should endeavour to strengthen their capacities to control and manage their own affairs and to participate effectively in all decisions affecting them,... and should make all efforts to address any issues of social dysfunction within their communities, including with respect to women and children.

Put together, the results from H2 and H3 imply that emotional dysfunction in mother - child relationships has broad consequences for children, as it appears to influence their general social skill abilities.

that altered OXT signaling in particular may play a pathophysiological role in mental and developmental disorders characterized by social dysfunction, such as autism, borderline personality disorder, schizophrenia, and social anxiety disorder.

Sexual health is a state of physical, emotional, mental and social well - being in relation to sexuality; it is not merely the absence of disease, dysfunction or infirmity.