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Recent Examples of dialectical
Pay attention to what treatment specialty your therapist provides: Some offer specific approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy or dialectical behavior therapy.
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Bryan Cochran, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2024
The clinic provides dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, a form of talk therapy that aids in emotional regulation, for local youth and their families.
—Isha Trivedi, The Mercury News, 7 May 2024
Liberalism has evolved in a dialectical fashion as people’s concerns have changed.
—Alan S. Kahan, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
The most common form of treatment is talk therapy, experts said, particularly cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT).
—Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2023
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Bryan Cochran, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2024
The clinic provides dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, a form of talk therapy that aids in emotional regulation, for local youth and their families.
—Isha Trivedi, The Mercury News, 7 May 2024
Liberalism has evolved in a dialectical fashion as people’s concerns have changed.
—Alan S. Kahan, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
The most common form of treatment is talk therapy, experts said, particularly cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT).
—Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dialectical
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Often, the cake is made in a half-and-half manner featuring two flavor profiles, such as the popular regional doberge combination of chocolate and lemon.Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 22 Dec. 2024
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Brazil agreed to take custody of the Argentine embassy, but President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, once an ally of Chávez, has shown scant interest in playing regional peace broker or advocating for the fates of his six houseguests.Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2024
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And Telegram itself uses standard crypto algorithms developed and certified by US government agencies, just in nonstandard ways.Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 27 Jan. 2021
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Despite these guidelines, healthcare providers still take measurements in nonstandard positions — with the arm resting on a patient’s lap or hanging at their side, according to study authors.Don Rauf, EverydayHealth.com, 10 Oct. 2024
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These posts range from theological breakdowns to translating scriptures in colloquial GenZ language, visualizing Bible stories through AI technologies, and customizing bible covers.Dr. Marcus Collins, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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While Birnbaum’s playful take on Murakami’s prose established the hip, colloquial style the author is still mostly known for today, his translation of Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World cut about 100 pages from the Japanese text.Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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The novelist was remarkable in approaching the subject of race as a modernist, rather than drawing on Southern tropes or vernacular to convey her characters’ Blackness, said Thadious M. Davis, a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania who has studied and written about Larsen’s work.Ethelene Whitmire, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2024
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Tom Wolfe, in our pages in 1968, argued for it as a form of contemporary vernacular art, and so did the architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown in their hugely influential book Learning From Las Vegas.Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 17 Dec. 2024
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“Dialectical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dialectical. Accessed 6 Jan. 2025.
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