Psychological flexibility as a predictor of professional quality of life in newly qualified psychological therapy practitioners

The professional quality of life psychological therapy practitioners can be conceptualised within a compassion satisfaction and fatigue framework. Compassion has detrimental impacts on practitioners, organisations patient care, whereas leads to positive outcomes. Psychological flexibility is purportedly key resilience process associated with greater lower for healthcare professionals. However, no existing research explored this association over longitudinal trajectory workers specifically newly qualified practitioners. This study aimed examine whether prospectively predicts levels (inclusive burnout secondary traumatic stress) in Using prospective cohort design, fifty-six trainee were recruited complete an online survey at three timepoints pre- post-qualification eight-months. Forty-two thirty-eight participants completed the two respectively. comprised demographic questionnaire measures flexibility, workplace factors. Multilevel modelling revealed that higher predicted stress all timepoints. offers evidence suggesting predictive between outcomes In context broader empirical conceptual literature, current findings invite further robust examining predict influence life.