What Do Resilient People Look Like?
November 17, 2017
by Glenn Schiraldi, PhD, author of The Resilience Workbook What is resilience? Most people already have a sense of what resilience is. In the course of my work, I’ve asked… READ MORE
Tag: Psychological Flexibility
What Is Psychological Flexibility?
April 5, 2017
by Tim Gordon, MSW, RSW Psychological flexibility represents the acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) model of health—it’s the element we want to foster and grow in our clients while modelling… READ MORE
Process-Based Therapy: The Future of Psychology Is Here
March 17, 2017
by Rochelle I. Frank, PhD, and Joan Davidson, PhD Transdiagnostic approaches that target underlying psychological processes (rather than symptom constellations) increasingly are becoming the new gold standard of evidence-based treatment…. READ MORE
What Makes Us Hate Ourselves? Part One
January 22, 2015
Editor’s note: This is part one of a two-part exploration of the construction of self-hatred through the lens of contextual behavioral science. Depressed, anxious, shy, ugly, socially inept, unlovable, complicit… READ MORE
Key Factors that Maintain and Exacerbate Anxiety Disorders
November 6, 2013
How can transdiagnostic approaches help treat anxiety disorders? By using wisdom from the new and groundbreaking contribution by Michael Tompkins, PhD: Anxiety and Avoidance: A Universal Treatment for Anxiety, Panic,… READ MORE
Research Round-Up: Examining the Effectiveness of ACT-Based Training for Working Populations
October 2, 2013
A series of studies have assessed the efficacy of ACT interventions delivered to working individuals, specifically the program outlined in The Mindful and Effective Employee: An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy… READ MORE
Q&A with the authors of The Mindful & Effective Employee
September 30, 2013
Frank W. Bond, PhD, and Paul E. Flaxman, PhD are authors of The Mindful & Effective Employee, which offers a detailed description of how ACT can be delivered in the… READ MORE
Psychological Flexibility: A New Approach to Reducing the Adverse Impact of Emotional Labor
August 21, 2013
Two weeks ago we posted a research-round up of studies examining the relationship between psychological flexibility and employees’ mental health and work-related functioning. Psychological flexibility, the general goal of ACT,… READ MORE
Research Round-Up: Psychological Flexibility in the Workplace
August 14, 2013
Psychological flexibility, the general goal of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), has been proven by a convincing body of evidence to be associated with a range of favorable outcomes in… READ MORE
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