0 present participle of thwart --
1 to stop something from happening or someone from doing something: --
Emotional maltreatment was coded for incidents involving persistent or extreme thwarting of children's emotional needs.
Are the pain patients who are nonresponsive to our ministrations actually thwarting our desires to help?
Emotional maltreatment involves extreme thwarting of children's basic emotional needs for psychological safety and security and age-appropriate autonomy.
Victorian views of prescribed roles were contradictory, encouraging independence as a virtue but thwarting women who asserted it as a right.
This finding again attests to the deleterious impact of ongoing maltreatment in thwarting the development of adaptive competencies as children confront subsequent developmental tasks.
Emotional maltreatment involves extreme thwarting of children's basic emotional needs for psychological safety and security, acceptance, and self-esteem, and ageappropriate autonomy.
However, there were also significant interactions between year and locality on these variables, thwarting conclusions on the effects of logging on bee communities.
However, our explanation separates from the multiple traditions' explanation in the latter's absence of a well-defined agency promoting or thwarting these competing ideologies.
