1.	Realizing and adapting to numerous situational demands
2.	When personal and social functioning is compromised there should be shift in mindset and perspective.
3.	Harmonizing competing desire, need, and life domains
4.	Being aware of, committed, and open to behaviors that are consistent with deeply held values


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It is a contextual approach that focuses on the ability of an individual to consciously focus on the present moment and to change or continue behavior that promote valued ends. The reason why this is contextual is because the individual is shifting their relationships with private events such as thoughts, memories, bodily sensations, and feelings instead of changing the event themselves. 

Psychological flexibility

Zhang, C. Q., Leeming, E., Smith, P., Chung, P. K., Hagger, M. S., & Hayes, S. C. (2018). Acceptance and commitment therapy for health behavior change: a contextually-driven approach. Frontiers in psychology, 8, 2350.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Health Behavior Change: A Contextually-Driven Approach

Four aspects of psychological flexibility fundamental to health

1.	By raising commitment to, and improving upkeep of value-driven behaviors
2.	By bolstering a willing, open, and accepting method of undergoing psychological event which will decrease the psychological barriers to behavior changes
3.	By using mindful processes to improve awareness of an individual’s internal and external behavior change which will allow behavioral choices to be more suited to contextual situations


Three ways that lasting change is facilitated by psychological flexibility

This theory claims that language is not centered on the learned connections or direct possibilities of a typical variety but instead on a series of responses to one event in terms of another. In terms of health behavioral changes, RFT’s maintenance depends on the intention of accomplishing a behavior while also , in the context of the targeted behavior, strengthening and weakening their existing relational responses and learning new relational responses.

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