The phrase "acceptance and affirmation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to express agreement or support for something, often in discussions about personal beliefs, relationships, or social issues.
Example: "The workshop focused on the importance of acceptance and affirmation in building a supportive community."
Alternatives: "approval and endorsement" or "recognition and support".
As with Iain Duncan Smith's recent social justice report, which looked into family breakdown, he emphasises lack of social cohesion but also the loss of security of attachment, the lack of acceptance and affirmation and the fear of bullying on the way to and from - and at - school.
Pathologically in perpetual search of acceptance and affirmation, Trump summarily rejects anything and anyone who fails to show him love.
For others who've recently gained acceptance and affirmation for themselves it is, on occasion, hard to make room for an even more oppressed group.
Lillian Barbeito's "Da Vinder," set to a compendium of contemporary recordings accented and overlaid with live cello, took four women in the opposite direction: from restless searching to acceptance and affirmation.
Thoughtful sculptors use the tools of patient listening, Socratic questioning, unconditional acceptance, and generous affirmation to help draw forth the dream, name it out loud, and then set about championing mentees' efforts to get there.
They realize that visibility, even when it focuses on violence and discrimination, is the first step along the journey from recognition to tolerance, then to acceptance and finally, affirmation.
The MI approach allows exploration of a problem in a supportive environment that expresses acceptance and provides affirmations of the person's strengths.
Tolerance has segued into meanings of nonjudgmentalism, recognition, acceptance, even implicitly, affirmation and respect.
Particularly for Catholics whose attachment to their faith is more cultural than doctrinal, the combination of Catholicism's traditional air of realism about human sexuality and the drift of contemporary culture has made the path from tolerance to acceptance to affirmation seem like a relatively natural one to take.
There's a certain tenderness and affirmation".
It exists in a position between impression and affirmation.
