Sentences with phrase «underlying psychological problems»

I mention this not to make light of a tragic situation, but to point out that surgery --- however drastic --- can not change underlying psychological problems.

achieved and any underlying psychological problems will remain inaccessible to therapy.

«Expensive, lifelong hormone treatments and irreversible surgeries associated with gender dysphoria would negatively affect personal deployability and mission readiness, without resolving underlying psychological problems, including high risks of suicide,» said Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness.

Not exact matches

«Gambling distortions like the «near - miss» effect may be amenable to both psychological therapies for problem gambling, and also by drug treatments that may act on the underlying brain systems.

Before assuming that the behavior stems from a psychological issue, it's important to rule out underlying medical problems.

While this abnormal behavior in dogs and cats can have a variety of medical causes, it also can reflect underlying problems of a psychological nature.

77 No. 10, October 1992 Abnormal behavior in dogs can have a variety of medical causes; it also can reflect underlying problems of a psychological nature.

That, in turn, reduces our cognitive capacity («the psychological mechanisms that underlie our ability to solve problems, retain information, engage in logical reasoning, and so on») and our executive control («our ability to manage our cognitive activities, including planning, attention, initiating, and inhibiting actions, and controlling impulses».

Membership in a single - parent family or stepfamily is associated with increased levels of significant behavioral, emotional, and academic problems in children.1, 2 The mechanisms underlying this connection are likely to involve, among other factors, financial adversity, increased stress directly related to family transitions, and increased exposure to additional psychosocial risks.3, 4 Compared with the extensive research base connecting family type (ie, membership in a 2 - parent biological family, stepfamily, or single - parent family) and children's psychological adjustment, little is known about the physical health consequences of membership in diverse family types.

A fundamental feature of Just Therapy is the attention paid to the broad cultural, gender, social, spiritual, economic and psychological contexts underlying the problems experienced by those with whom therapists work.

When an entire family receives the treatment, the psychological problems of the most troubled individual receives the most help because the system that underlies the individual's problems is being treated.

For over 30 years as psychotherapist I help clients understand the psychological dynamics underlying problems and difficulties.