Sentence examples for unhelpful behaviours from inspiring English sources

None of the unhelpful behaviours by councils are inevitable, and some of us have found our councils learning and improving by working with us.

An alternative hypothesis would be to compare attractiveness of targets with reports of helpful and unhelpful behaviours, e.g. "he agreed to donate bone marrow when asked" versus "he did not agree to donate bone marrow when asked".

Further, to improve function through graded activity exposure unless pacing is adopted in a time-contingent, rather than pain-contingent manner, the effects may be provocative, reinforce unhelpful behaviours including activity avoidance, and contribute to greater disability [ 74].

Cognitive-behavioural models have also been developed to explain this phenomenon, whereby the perceptions and thoughts of significant others are proposed to play an important role in pain adjustment as they translate into unhelpful behaviours such as solicitousness or punishment [ 25].

[NL, 33 years, female] This research reveals novel insights about the nature of support provided by significant others in helping those with CMP to stay at work: most studies in this field tend to document the negative or unhelpful behaviours of significant others [ 20, 21], or the incongruence between patient and partner ratings of pain and disability [ 22, 9].

For me, the soul-searching is interesting but becomes genuinely useful when it identifies patterns of unhelpful behaviour.

Several describe a pattern of unhelpful behaviour – delaying presenting evidence until the last moment, or after a deadline has passed; refusing to concede anything until minutes before the tribunal was due to start – pushing up parents' costs, and exhausting their energy to continue fighting.

There may be various incentives for such unhelpful behaviour.

'Contagion' was used to refer to the risks of learning unhelpful behaviour and making unhelpful friendships.

Health professionals and parents have concerns about young people acquiring unhelpful, destructive behaviours while they are inpatients (CerQual moderate).

This involves sharing information with carers about how to (1) increase carer coping, (2) effective support and change skills and (3) reduce unhelpful interpersonal behaviours.