maladaptive
Example Sentences
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Since psychologists tend to focus on pathology, Danckert said, maladaptive responses like avoidance and aggression get loads of study, but research on positive responses is less plentiful.
From Salon
Questioning our immediate experience is maladaptive when we are children because if our life isn’t safe, where can we go?
From New York Times
Ted’s insistence that life has infinite happy endings already bordered on toxic positivity, and it catapults over that line into maladaptive behavior in Season 2.
From Los Angeles Times
“Unfortunately, for both eating disorders and substance use disorders, these coping mechanisms are maladaptive and unsurprisingly, adolescents can have serious — even deadly — health consequences.”
From Washington Post
They gain skills, they cease maladaptive behavior, they receive more services.
From New York Times
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