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What is Psychological Flexibility

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Handbook of Research on Developing Competencies for Pre-Health Professional Students, Advisors, and Programs
A concept central to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy describing an individual’s willingness to experience uncomfortable feelings or thoughts while staying true to personal values or behaving in accordance with personal values.
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Understanding Backwards: Counseling Approaches for Advising Pre-Health Students
Julie Renee Nelson (The University of Michigan, USA)
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-5969-0.ch009
Abstract
In this chapter, the author explores the application of counseling approaches in advising pre-health professional students. After identifying and reviewing three counseling models, the chapter offers theory-to-practice strategies for developing psychological flexibility and perspective taking with pre-health students. The author discusses common challenges for all pre-health students and structural inequalities that disadvantage students from underrepresented groups and how counseling approaches help advisors and students build a trusting alliance to address challenges inherent on the path to becoming a health professional. The chapter includes practical tips and suggestions to empower educators and advisors to apply counseling-inspired approaches to enhance advising practice and creatively support this student population.
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Mindfulness-Based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: A Practitioners View
The ability to act effectively and do what is important, even in the face of adversity. Psychological flexibility is facilitating using ACT processes and it is a vital component of therapy work.
Published in Chapter: Mindfulness-Based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: A Practitioners View; From: Handbook of Research on Clinical Applications of Meditation and Mindfulness-Based Interventions in Mental Health
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Emotion Regulation at Work: Employee and Leader Perspectives
Being aware of the present moment, showing self-awareness of all the emotions, sensations, and thoughts, welcoming them, including the undesired ones, and moving towards a behavior to follow your chosen values.
Published in Chapter: Emotion Regulation at Work: Employee and Leader Perspectives; From: Advancing Interpersonal Emotion Regulation and Social Regulation
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