Psychological Recovery Clinic

08/17/2025

08/17/2025

Self-protection, a rejection of positivity, or a cultural message?

05/24/2025

A chronically overlooked body-focused repetitive behavior.

05/24/2025

New findings show that dopamine signals track not only rewards but also cues linked to unpleasant outcomes. The study helps explain how we learn to avoid harm and offers new insight into disorders characterized by excessive fear and avoidance.

02/11/2025

Social estrangements, or the loss of a friendly relationship with someone, can cause psychological harm to all involved parties, even if severing the relationship was in their best interests. New research published in EvoS Journal found that some traits associated with borderline personality disorde...

02/01/2025

OpenAI’s o3 AI model achieved human-level performance on the ARC-AGI intelligence test, surpassing previous AI benchmarks. While its adaptability is impressive, questions remain about whether this marks real progress toward artificial general intelligence (AGI) or just test-specific optimization.

01/26/2025

Have you or your clients ever gone through an adversity that made you gather your strengths and skills to get through it? If so, congrats! You have most likely just become more resilient!

Resilience is defined as getting through challenges, regulating yourself and your reactions and emerging with strength (Auburn et al., 2016). Life can get busy for your clients and not everyone has the time or capacity to delve into literature on this topic or plan extensive regiments to become more resilient. Therefore, we have come up with some micro (= very small) – resilience points of action, that you can use as inspiration to help your clients become more resilient.

A systematic review by Llistosella et al. (2022) proposed the Individual and Environmental Resilience Model, based on common significant protective and risk factors for resilience in children and young adults. These protective factors are intended to mitigate negative consequences after experiencing challenging situations.  Some of the most commonly found significant protective factors were: Social resources and support, self-regulation, empathy and compassion, and positive aspirations. Factors such as social resources and support are more of an environmental dependent factor, and therefore a bit too broad to implement in a few small steps. Therefore, we will focus on some of the individual factors, aspects that are easier accessible and quick to implement.

We thought of some micro-resilience actions that can be implemented into your client’s daily life. See strategies in this post!

Resilience can be built in micro-steps. Little everyday actions such as regulating yourself through if-when scenarios (Gollwitzer, 1993), changing your perspective to foster compassion, and focusing on what you would like to achieve, do not have to take up much time. But over time, those little steps will add up to making a significant change in your client’s life.

Have you used any of the mentioned micro-resilience actions before? Or do you use any other micro-resilience strategies? Let us know in the comments!

01/07/2025

New findings in mice have uncovered a crucial mechanism linking neuronal activity to mitochondrial function, researchers report in Science, revealing a potential pathway to combat age-related cognitive decline.

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01/07/2025

A recent psychology paper suggests that trypophobia, the fear of clusters of small holes, may have evolutionary origins linked to avoiding dangerous animals and infectious diseases.

12/28/2024

With some practice, you can start trusting your intuition more.

12/18/2024

Misapplication fails those we accuse, and those who need help.