The phrase "ambivalent advice" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to guidance or recommendations that express mixed feelings or contradictory opinions about a particular situation.
Example: "The counselor offered ambivalent advice, suggesting both the benefits and drawbacks of pursuing a career change."
Alternatives: "conflicted guidance" or "mixed recommendations".
In order to help the cough resolve, it was suggested the patient be told, "Are you sure you need to be coughing?" However, the mother felt ambivalent about this advice because she was aware that coughing is beneficial for patients with CF. No further therapy was offered.
His website, for example, says beards are obligatory, chess is "absolutely unlawful", and romantic chit-chat between young men and women, even by telephone, is forbidden until they are engaged.But his admirers seem ambivalent over whether his spiritual advice should necessarily be turned into law.
Yeats was ambivalent about Olivia despite the advice of the sponsors; with no money to support her, he suggested she seek a legal separation (instead of a divorce), sparing her social ostracism and financial ruin.
Yet McDonald is ambivalent about the benefit of its advice to corporate executives.
Some previously ambivalent ministers have been won over by advice from the security services.
At best, expert advice on the subject is ambivalent.
Sociologists point to the ambivalent nature of counselling: it provides information and advice, but it does not determine what the "right decision" is.
It recognised also that many people were likely to feel ambivalent about change, and would not necessarily respond well to straightforward advice.
Her role is a bit more ambivalent in Russia, where she often presents the protagonists with help and advice.
However, with the current low levels of knowledge and with ambivalent attitudes, these providers can not be relied upon to give accurate and consistent advice to potential clients.
