Act Out

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David was telling the customer that it wasn't okay that he'd act-out to the staff the way he was. ❋ Unknown (2008)

After Boobiac thoughtlessly put peaches into the ice tea, making it off-limits to the Have-Nots, The Captain, already stressed out, began tipping over into act-out land. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Once a parent knows that their kid can TRULY comprehend advanced verbal explanations concerning why they should'nt do certain things or act-out in certain ways......from then on you should not spank them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Very interesting act-out: a praying mantis devouring some sort of roach. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He is clearly a survivor and has much inner strength, but he has also learned in his family to act-out when one needs attention. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The self-reinforcing is that the more that our enemies act-out, the more this becomes evidence that we have to be even more apologetic and “understanding” - and since this only leads to more out-of-control behavior, we have to chase our tail even faster. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We enjoyed The Rocky Horror Picture Show on Canadian television while we were travelling, and read an article in the local paper how Rocky's Midnight Movie act-along/act-out has been running in Calgary, Alberta for four years. ❋ Michael Evans (2006)

I also understand that you might feel pressured as I did, for a while to act-out and in a bid to please the person. ❋ Juliette (2008)

It even lays a series of first act-out/midpoint/second-act-out ideas over the Sequences. ❋ Rogers (2005)

Moreover, even if a client is inducing a reaction in the worker, it is important for the worker to contain rather than act-out his or her feelings. ❋ EDA G. GOLDSTEIN (2001)

Other clients who are impulsive may become management problems because they tend to act-out their intense feeling states or attempt to deal with their inner turmoil by means of substance abuse or other forms of addictive and destructive behavior. ❋ EDA G. GOLDSTEIN (2001)

Even when a client is “inducing” a reaction in the worker, it is important for the worker to contain rather than act-out his or her feelings. ❋ EDA G. GOLDSTEIN (2001)

And yet, I say, there is an irrepressible tendency in every man to develop himself according to the magnitude which Nature has made him of; to speak-out, to act-out, what Nature has laid in him. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

The person may leave or act-out and push the situation to a place where it's clearly time to end. ❋ Stacey Nemour (2011)

"Parents don't realize they are off-loading their anxiety onto their kids, and then kids act-out or develop [medical or emotional] symptoms." ❋ Unknown (2010)

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