Impact of Acceptance and Commitment Training on psychological flexibility and burnout in medical education

Szarko, Alison J.; Houmanfar, Ramona A.; Smith, Gregory S.; Jacobs, N. Nicole; Smith, Brooke M.; Assemi, Kian; Piasecki, Melissa; Baker, Timothy K.

doi:10.1016/j.jcbs.2022.02.004

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Impact of Acceptance and Commitment Training on psychological flexibility and burnout in medical education

Szarko, Alison J., Houmanfar, Ramona A., Smith, Gregory S., Jacobs, N. Nicole, Smith, Brooke M., Assemi, Kian, Piasecki, Melissa, Baker, Timothy K.·2022·Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science

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Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) has been reported to be effective in reducing burnout and depression among a variety of healthcare professionals as well as medical students.
“Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), a psychotherapy that targets the facilitation of psychological flexibility, has been used and reported to be effective in reducing burnout and depression among a variety of healthcare professionals as well as medical students [23, 32–35].”
From The mediating role of psychological flexibility in the association of autistic-like traits with burnout and depression in medical students during clinical clerkships in Japan: a university-based cross-sectional study (2023) · cites this paper as [35]
A recent study found that distressed medical students who completed ACT training as a requirement of their undergraduate medical curriculum demonstrated improved burnout outcomes, but this study did not include a control group.
“A recent study found that distressed medical students who completed ACT training as a requirement of their undergraduate medical curriculum demonstrated improved burnout outcomes, but this study did not include a control group [61].”
From Evaluation of an App-Delivered Psychological Flexibility Skill Training Intervention for Medical Student Burnout and Well-being: Randomized Controlled Trial (2023) · cites this paper as [61]
These findings support previous literature highlighting the potential benefits of training medical students in psychological flexibility skills.
“These findings support previous literature highlighting the potential benefits of training medical students in psychological flexibility skills [31,61,62]”
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Authors: Szarko, A. J., Houmanfar, R. A., Smith, G. S., Jacobs, N. N., Smith, B. M., Assemi, K., Piasecki, M., & Baker, T. K.
Affiliations: University of Nevada, Reno (US)
Western Michigan University (US)
Corresponding author: Szarko, Alison J.
ORCID: Houmanfar, Ramona A.
Smith, Gregory S.
Jacobs, N. Nicole
Smith, Brooke M.
Assemi, Kian
Venue: Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2022-01
Volume: 23
Pages: 190-199
ISSN: 2212-1447 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcbs.2022.02.004
OpenAlex: W4211246794
Cited by: 31
References: 53
Citations by year: 2026: 5 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 2
FWCI: 5.53
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
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Locations: Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Stress and Burnout Research
Keywords: acceptance and commitment training, psychological flexibility, burnout, medical students, burnout management, positivity bias, negativity bias, Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II, Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure, medical curriculum, student distress

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