Paul Flaxman PhD, CPsychol

Dr Paul Flaxman

Department of Psychology      
City University London
Northampton Square
London, EC1V 0HB     

 

Tel:  +44 (0)20 7040 8484      
Fax: +44 (0)20 7040 8581
Paul.Flaxman.1@city.ac.uk


Paul is Programme Director of the MSc Organisational Psychology/ Behaviour, and director of a research programme that focuses on employee respite and recovery during leisure time. 

 
RESEARCH INTERESTS

Paul works within the field of occupational health psychology, evaluating worksite stress management interventions and investigating the predictors of employee well-being.

 

Previously, Paul has held research and teaching positions at London Guildhall University and Goldsmiths College (University of London). While at Goldsmiths, Paul helped to implement a major work redesign intervention within the financial services sector. This work was co-funded by the British Occupational Health Research Foundation (BOHRF) and participating organisations. He has also contributed to the development of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Management Standards for work-related stress. In the first of two projects funded by the HSE, Paul worked alongside Professor Frank Bond at Goldsmiths to review the links between psychosocial work stressors and business-related outcomes. More recently, he helped to identify the management competencies that are linked to the HSE standards.

 

In addition to these projects, Paul has become a specialist in adapting cognitive-behaviour therapy (CBT) interventions for use in the workplace. Most notably, he has taken a prominent role in developing and evaluating acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) as a worksite stress management intervention. In recent years, he has delivered CBT-based coping skills training to hundreds of employees across the UK. Paul continues to publish accounts of this work in both the occupational health and CBT literatures.

 

Paul has recently developed a major new research programme to examine the impact of respite and recovery experiences on employee well-being and performance. To support this work, Paul has received funding awards from the University’s staff development unit, and more recently from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Since 2007, Paul has been working in close collaboration with Dr. Julie Menard, a visiting researcher from Quebec. Their collaboration is being supported by an international research fellowship from the Institut de recherché Robert-Sauvé en santé et sécurité au travail (IRSST). 

 

Paul is a member of the British Psychological Society and a chartered occupational psychologist. Between 2003 and 2007, he was editor of the Occupational Health Psychologist, a quarterly publication of the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology (EA-OHP). Paul is currently treasurer and executive committee member of the ACT special interest branch of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP).


PUBLICATIONS

Flaxman, P. E., & Bond, F. W. (under review). Worksite stress management training: Moderated effects and clinical significance. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology.


Flaxman, P. E., & Bond, F. W. (forthcoming). ACT and psychological flexibility at work. In R. A. Baer (Ed.), Mindfulness and acceptance: Illuminating the processes of change. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger.


Bond, F. W., & Flaxman, P. E. (forthcoming). Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT): Distinctive features. London: Routledge.


Bond, F. W., Flaxman, P. E., & Bunce, D. (2008). The influence of psychological flexibility on work redesign: Mediated moderation of a work reorganization intervention. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93, 645-654.


Yarker, J., Donaldson-Feilder, E. Lewis, R., & Flaxman, P. E. (2007). Management competencies for preventing and reducing stress at work. UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Contract Research Report 553.
 
Flaxman, P. E., & Bond, F. W. (2006). Acceptance and commitment therapy in the workplace. In R. A. Baer (Ed.), Mindfulness-based treatment approaches. San Diego, CA: Elsevier
 
Bond, F. W., & Flaxman, P. E. (2006). The ability of psychological flexibility and job control to predict learning, job performance, and mental health. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 26, 113-130.
 
Keogh, E., Bond, F. W., & Flaxman, P. E. (2006). Improving academic performance and mental health through a stress management intervention: Outcomes and mediators of change. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 44, 339-357.
 
Bond, F. W., Flaxman, P. E., & Loivette, S. (2006). The business case for the management standards for stress: Conclusions based upon meta-analyses. UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Contract Research Report 431.
 
Flaxman, P. E., & Bond, F.W. (2004). Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT)-based stress management interventions (SMIs): Investigating the mechanisms of change. In J. Houdmont & S. McIntyre (Eds.), Key papers of the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology. Maia (Portugal): Publismai.
 
 Flaxman, P. E., Bond, F. W., & Keogh, E. (2002). Preventing and treating evaluation strain: A brief CBT approach. In F. W. Bond & W. Dryden (Eds.), Handbook of Brief Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy. Chichester: Wiley.
 
Papadopoulos, L., Bor, R., Walker, C. J., Flaxman, P. E., & Legg, C. (2002). Different shades of meaning: Illness beliefs amongst vitiligo sufferers. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 7, 425-433.

 

RECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS
Flaxman, P. E., Bugler, C., & Cairns, N. (2008). The relations between employee perfectionism, thinking about work during leisure time, and psychological well-being. Paper presented at the British Psychological Society annual occupational psychology conference: Stratford-upon-Avon, January 2008.


Flaxman, P. E., &  Bond, F. W. (2007). Acceptance and commitment therapy and stress inoculation training at work. Paper presented at the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) annual conference, Brighton, September 2007


Flaxman, P. E., &  Bond, F. W. (2007). For whom, and to what extent, is worksite stress management training effective? Paper presented at the British Psychological Society annual occupational psychology conference: Bristol, January 2007


Bond, F. W., Flaxman, P. E., & Loivette, S. (2006). A Business case for the management standards for stress. Paper presented at the seventh annual conference of the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology: Dublin, November 2006.

 

Flaxman, P. E., & Bond, F. W. (2006). Worksite stress management interventions: Investigating the mechanisms of change. Paper presented at the American Psychological Association (APA) sixth international conference on occupational stress and health: Miami, Florida, March 2006.

 

Bond, F. W., Flaxman, P. E., & Bunce, D. (2006). Identifying a mediator and a moderator of a work reorganisation intervention: Findings from a quasi-experiment. Paper presented at the British Psychological Society annual occupational psychology conference: Glasgow, January 2006.