"We often conceptualize resilience as an abstract or fixed concept-inaccurately believing that you either have it or you don't. We mistakenly assume it is a personality feature that determines how or whether we recover from adversity. What we don't often realize, however, is that resilience is more like a skill, or a set of skills, that can be built and used to enhance our capacity for living."
"From my clinical standpoint, what's interesting about psychological flexibility isn't actually that it's a new concept, but rather, the many-layered processes it pulls together. Why do I find that interesting? Because by digging deeply back into these processes, we can actually reverse-engineer our understanding of what helps us adapt and cope with adversity, maintain wellness, and grow from difficult life experiences using a range of insights from multiple theories-not just ACT."
Resilience functions as a skillset rather than an innate, fixed trait and can be developed to enhance capacity for living. Common misconceptions cast resilience as a personality feature that determines recovery from adversity. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) frames resilience through the concept of psychological flexibility. Psychological flexibility emphasizes that well-being depends not on eliminating life's challenges but on staying flexible, grounded, and taking values-guided action despite difficulty. Psychological flexibility integrates many layered processes that can be analyzed to identify mechanisms that help adapt to adversity, maintain wellness, and grow from difficult experiences using insights from multiple theories.
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