Psychological flexibility has been argued to be a fundamental component of psychological health, with hundreds of clinical trials demonstrating that psychological flexibility is related to many important outcomes: from managing the after effects of trauma, predicting ‘burn out’ in workers, and reducing the impact of mental health difficulties, to predicting better health outcomes for those with chronic physical illnesses, and even reducing the subjective experience of pain. But there is a problem: what exactly is psychological flexibility? In this talk, we briefly discuss our work developing the ‘CompACT’ – a measure of psychological flexibility that has now been translated into over 14 different languages and used nationally and internationally by clinicians, health practitioners, and applied researchers.
Dr David L Dawson, School of Psychology
Dr Nima G Moghaddam, School of Psychology