Sentences with phrase «useful approach to this problem»

Not exact matches

In informal counseling many of the approaches of short - term formal counseling are useful — sensitive listening, reflecting feelings, seeking to understand empathetically, giving ego support, summarizing the person's perception of the problem, asking questions, examining alternatives, giving information, and, occasionally, advice.

«Floodtags has this approach that uses an algorithm that allows people to tackle the big data problem — there are so many tweets — and make it useful and helpful for us.»

Although in many cases this is a useful approach, this philosophy has also resulted in a multibillion - dollar «disease industry», where costly medical intervention is preferred to preventing the problem in the first place.

Dividing staff into somewhat competing teams would give them incentives to point out shortcomings in the other team's approach, which could be a useful check on the all - too - common problem of groupthink.

I definitely appreciated being invited to join the discussion, and it was very useful for me personally to hear some of the concerns or potential problems you saw for this kind of approach.

Equations like the above let you approach the problem analytically, in that I can calculate useful approximations like the derivative of mortgage length with respect to downpayment, or interest rates, or payment amount, or payment frequency, in a continuous manner.

While this approach is potentially very useful for an agency or community to assess their own problems and progress, it renders the data unfit for any epidemiologic tally or comparison.

He introduced me to a different approach to gardening — tolerating weeds until they became a problem (and encouraging them if they are edible or otherwise useful), avoiding digging at all costs (see also Warren's post on how to build a no - dig garden), and generally letting nature take its course.

She notes that lawyers are basically problem solvers and that while being able to answer quickly is a useful skill, «students who function cooperatively... are more likely to arrive at the optimal solution... than are those who approach problems in a competitive, adversarial manner.

This integrated approach maps to the complexity of the problems our client partners face, and ensures our solutions are useful for both front line improvement and executive - level visibility.

Several basic principles of the McMaster approach remain and this edition invites practitioners to view these as one of a range of potentially useful positions when meeting with families and collaborating with them to deconstruct problems.

If you find yourself with a general sense of dissatisfaction (with yourself or the world), feel apathetic or fearful of what's next, or find yourself making the same mistakes over and over, my approach combining mindfulness, body awareness, deep listening (to your story) and creative problem - solving will be useful to you.»

For example, in the MTA sample, correlations between measures reflecting the actual reports of peers about one another were correlated only 0.01 to 0.27 in magnitude with ratings of peer functioning obtained from parents and teachers, suggesting that reports by adults are not useful proxies for the perspectives of one's peers.27 Given that views of one's peers provide better prediction to later psychiatric problems, 3 the use of adult report to index intervention outcomes in studies targeting the peer relationship problems of children is likely to prove a limited measurement approach.