Dr. Patrick Mcauliffe PHD

01/10/2025

Simple, diffusion techniques to allow you to create distance between you and the emotional reactions you may have with thoughts

01/07/2025

Refocus, anxiety and meditation.

01/04/2025

Cognitive fusion. How our thoughts get stuck and how to unstick them

12/31/2024

How emotions are constructed. The basis of most CBT interventions.

12/28/2024

Often neglected is the role of positive emotions as providing a protective factor for those who were going through stressful times Fredrickson’s work is very helpful here

12/28/2024

An overview of the relationship between cognition, emotion, and athletic performance

12/28/2024

Beginning the New Year early by posting information. To begin with are the four pillars to positive sports performance from a psychological perspective.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/patrick-mcauliffe-ridgefield-ct/198717

04/11/2022

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/04/american-teens-sadness-depression-anxiety/629524/?utm_medium=social&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_term=2022-04-11T10%3A01%3A57&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2ZkNhRhbmcxCPdTX4Tu-oeP_brkojDyCcPz6UpOip2140F4ZoQtjHU-Pc. A lot to reflect on

Four forces are propelling the rising rates of depression among young people.

01/10/2022

Flexible mindset, flexible behaviors and feedback monitoring are all keys in coping with difficult circumstances. What we say to ourselves and how we say it is important.

01/05/2022

https://www.mountsinai.org/about/newsroom/podcasts/road-resilience/resilience-paradox What are the factors that help people survive difficult circumstances?

There’s no shortage of tools in the resilience toolkit, and yet resilience remains something of a mystery. We still don’t fully understand why some people respond to challenging situations with resilience, or exactly how to prepare for hardship. In his new book, The End of Trauma, resilience res...

02/19/2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/18/well/family/why-teenagers-reject-parents-solutions-to-their-problems.html. Very true

It’s usually because we’re not giving them what they’re really looking for.

02/07/2020

What we say to ourselves determines how we feel and influences what we do.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/understand-other-people/202002/the-destructive-nature-negative-self-talk

Turn your attention toward the positive.