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Synonyms for supportive

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Synonyms for supportive

giving or able to give help or support

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Antonyms for supportive

furnishing support or assistance

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Older patients who chose supportive care had a limited understanding of health service strategies to support them.
In the year 2004 73 stories were analped out of which 38 were found to be Non Supportive while 35 were supportive.
The exposure group completed a mean of 12 sessions; the supportive group, 11 sessions.
Participants who received prolonged exposure showed greater improvement in PTSD symptoms and were more likely to lose their PTSD diagnosis and be classified as good responders than those who received supportive counseling.
Clr Jean Calvert, Cabinet member for wellbeing and communities, said: "I hope creative businesses get involved and help to build a supportive and well-connected creative community in Kirklees."
"And we've been supportive for example of the work that's going on to look at how to devolve the northern franchise across the north of England although we have issues [about] governance and we don't want it just to be a cover for the 30% cut they're trying to make and then devolve down how to deal with the lack of money."
BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Rehabilitation, Supportive and Palliative Care: Case Studies in Patient Management is a 'must' for any college-level veterinary studies collection, and reviews the basics of animal rehabilitation, supportive care, and pain management.
Although Section 811 provides important affordable housing linked with community-based supportive services for the most vulnerable people with disabilities, its rules and limitations had made it increasingly difficult for providers to take advantage of the program.
The schemes accounted for 50 million afghanis, added Abdulzai, who estimated the 12 other projects including the construction of a 50 metre supportive wall and a waterhead on the Kunar River in Kama district would be completed at the cost of 59 million afghanis.
President Ali Abdullah Saleh renewed here on Tuesday Yemen's supportive positions to Palestinian people and their right to establish a stat on their national soil with its capital, al-Quds.<p>This came during a meeting gathered President Saleh and the Political Bureau Chief of the Palestinian Hamas Movement, Khaled Mashaal and his accompanied delegation.
ISLAMABAD, 08 April , 2009 (Balochistan Times) -- Cognitive behaviour therapy, and to a lesser extent supportive stress management, help depressed patients who have had heart bypass surgery.
The enactment in 2005 of the supportive relationship grounds for modification of alimony, as set forth in F.S.
For several years, ONS and the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC) have maintained an informal liaison relationship.
Supportive psychotherapy began as a second-class treatment whose only operating principle was "being friendly" with the patient (Box, page 28).
Cost-effectiveness analysis of cetuximab/irinotecan vs active/best supportive care for the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer patients who have failed previous chemotherapy treatment N Starling, D Tilden, J White and D Cunningham British Journal of Cancer, 2007, 96, 206-212
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