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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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The singer, daughter of late regional Mexican icon Jenni Rivera, has weathered a barrage of personal storms.Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
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Lukashenko's request underscores Belarus's alignment with Russia amid ongoing regional conflicts and highlights the increasing militarization in Eastern Europe.Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 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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Ortiz helped Clark use colloquial Spanish, so some of the songs use slang most commonly used in Mexico.Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 3 Dec. 2024
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There was good and evil in the world—not in the colloquial sense but in the literal, supernatural sense.Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
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But in the past decade, Chinese auto designs have developed their own, more worldly design vernacular, says Brenden Donnelly, who worked in design and brand management at the Chinese automakers Geely and Lynk & Co before founding his own startup.Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2024
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But Jake Xerxes Fussell’s music, which draws heavily from nineteenth- and twentieth-century vernacular folk songs and archival field recordings, is idiomatic, and entirely his own.Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
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“Dialectical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dialectical. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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