Sentence examples for counterproductive patterns from inspiring English sources

"Therapists can help identify counterproductive patterns in thinking and emotion that will help you get back to loving life quickly, should you hit a rough spot," said Whitney Owens, a licensed clinical psychologist in Las Vegas.

Aspects of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) can be very useful in helping people break counterproductive patterns of thought and behaviour in some cases.

And the cuts continue despite the flood (pun intended) of evidence that they are shortsighted and counterproductive, after the pattern of false economies generally.

I'd like to emphasize the plight of Gaza students, and the counterproductive and frankly mystifying pattern of denying them the ability to travel to study abroad.

It is remarkably easy to slip into a pattern of negative (and counterproductive) behavior, especially when we're not conscious of it.

Further, the rule is counterproductive.

"I would agree with Ogbu that there are youth cultural patterns and behaviors that are counterproductive for academic success," he went on, mentioning socializing in class and spending too much time watching television.

Make good habits that will form new connections and will fix "old pain-pathways", consisting of new conditioned responses, new patterns, new habits -- in place of counterproductive moods and behaviors.

Seeking reassurance in this way is deeply counterproductive for OCD sufferers; doing so exacerbates tormenting feelings, strengthens obsessive and compulsive patterns, and undermines successful therapy.

He seeks a new relationship with Tehran but is relapsing into the old, sterile sanctions-threatening pattern at a moment of great political fluidity in Iran when American saber-rattling is counterproductive.

A successful approach to long-term weight management requires establishing new patterns: eating healthfully, but eating less; engaging in regular physical activity; and changing behaviour patterns that are counterproductive, such as eating while watching television.