Sentence examples for maladaptive practices from inspiring English sources

Indeed, purely superstitious remedies, or even maladaptive practices, spread more readily than efficacious treatments under specified circumstances.

This will mitigate against the spread of arbitrary of maladaptive practices, since observers would no longer be copying at random, but according to the efficacy of the trait.

We show that the treatments that spread are not necessarily those that are most efficacious at curing the ailment, and explain how 'superstitious treatments' with little efficacy and even maladaptive practices can spread under broad conditions.

Delinquent peers are also more likely to promote maladaptive practices and adolescents who affiliate with such peers may be influenced or pressured into behaving similarly [ 10].

Thus, the amount of food children eat, both observed and assessed by questionnaire, seems related to more maladaptive parenting practices in mothers.

"That does clearly indicate a maladaptive pattern of behavior," she said.

The current study was designed to evaluate: (a) whether an 8-week psychoeducational intervention can reduce maladaptive weight-management practices in women (University females, N = 24) with sub-clinical levels of eating pathology; and (b) whether its implementation reduces the risk of developing more severe eating pathology across time.

But it created a maladaptive behavior pattern.

In particular, patient safety and quality of care in hospital settings are closely related to nursing practice, as are the sheer size of the nursing force, its relationship with medical practice (both maladaptive and complementary), and nursing shortages.

These findings have important implications for extinction-based interventions for reducing maladaptive reward-seeking in practice.

But when we're locked in a habitual, maladaptive state, we exercise all our worst habits.