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- noun An excessive, or unusually great
involvement
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Examples
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Buried in overattachment and overinvolvement is an assumption of fragility, the belief that by not having some nuance of need met, the child will be irrevocably harmed.
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Similarly, "you will find next to no scientific data on helicopter parenting," says Keene State College psychologist Neil Montgomery, using the popular term for parental overinvolvement.
Complaining about a generation of spoiled kids -- again Alfie Kohn 2010
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“Emotional overinvolvement,” however, is a term of art that requires a little explanation.
Crazy Like Us Ethan Watters 2010
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Collectively referred to as “high expressed emotion” they were criticism, hostility, and emotional overinvolvement.
Crazy Like Us Ethan Watters 2010
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Making the ill individual aware that his or her behavior and cognition are being monitored and judged was, she knew, a sign of emotional overinvolvement.
Crazy Like Us Ethan Watters 2010
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Unfortunately parents thwart this process through overinvolvement in the college years, which is often preceded by overinvolvement in the high school years.
The iConnected Parent Barbara K. Hofer 2010
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Psychology expert Hara Marano reveals how parental overinvolvement hinders a childs development socially, emotionally, and neurologically.
A Nation of Wimps: Summary and book reviews of A Nation of Wimps by Hara Estroff Marano. 2008
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More recently, the spokesman for the Pakistan armed forces criticized the "overinvolvement of Indians in Afghanistan," specifically warning against any Indian aid in training the Afghan Army.
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I think the problem was actually overinvolvement of government, with Congress meddling in the affairs of Wall Street and opening the door to subprime lending via the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977.
Golden Age, Gone? 2008
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I think the problem was actually overinvolvement of government, with Congress meddling in the affairs of Wall Street and opening the door to subprime lending via the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977.
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