- abreact
- abreaction
- analyst
- behaviour modification
- behaviour therapy
- cognitive behavioural therapy
- counsel
- counselling
- counsellor
- hypnotherapy
- neuro-linguistic programming
- NLP
- non-directive
- proactive aggression
- psychoanalyst
- psychotherapist
- sex therapy
- stress management
- therapist
- victim support
Meaning of tough love in English
tough love | Business English
Examples of tough love
tough love
My philosophy on this subject is summed up by the term "tough love".
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Common sense and counselling may be called for, but tough love is also needed.
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Other vital elements are tough love, creating a safe, calm environment in which teachers can teach and students learn; and high academic expectations.
He was a proponent of the tough love measures designed to force claimants, including the sick and disabled, back to work.
He puts up with her tough love as he is infatuated with her.
The kids hang on his words, respond to his tough love and accept his discipline.
All of them enjoyed tough love from him.
In improving a mid-level basketball program, he stressed work ethic, used tough love, and tried to improve the players' vocabulary.
In week three, the tough love treatment produces some unexpected results.
His reason for doing this, was that he was showing his son, tough love.
She practices a tough love on her younger sisters.
The same tough love approach is directed at men this time, following the same basic principles.
In contrast, the strict father family revolves around the idea that parents teach their children how to be self-reliant and self-disciplined through tough love.
In most uses, there must be some actual love or feeling of affection behind the harsh or stern treatment to be defined as tough love.
His parents reportedly visited him and gave him a tough love ultimatum regarding his drug use.
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