We’ve thankfully come a long way from the old days of kids should be “seen but not heard“, but have … More
Author: PsychPolis
Technological Parenting
Raising a Digital Generation We already established in an earlier blog that parenting is tricky business at times. With the … More
Anxiety – in Gifs
As we’ve discussed in other posts, anxiety is not all bad, but sometimes how we react to it when it … More
Trust in Care – Can I?
I was speaking yesterday at an Early Graduate Psychology conference and recalled an important part of my career when I … More
Suicide: Having the Conversation
I spoke today at the Mental Health Summit Ireland event in Croke Park about the topic of having a conversation … More
The Anxiety Switch
I give a lot of talks to parents, young people and professional groups on the topic of anxiety. In most … More
Court of Self-Esteem
Most of us will be familiar about how the judicial system works. You’re accused of a crime and if there’s … More
Do we always need to know the why?
Something that has been consistently coming up in my work more and more is a desire (an understandable one) to … More
The Curious case of Gretta
So Gretta Thunberg has managed to annoy the hell out of Donald Trump, Jeremy Clarkson, Piers Morgan, US conservatives and … More
Modern (good enough) Parenting
I’m a dad of 3 great kids, 2,6 & 8 and this may come as a surprise to some but … More