Dr. Patricia Romano McGraw – Senior Associate
Patricia Romano McGraw is a psychologist with over 25 years of experience in helping organizations and individuals identify, understand, and develop their hidden potential. She believes that healthy relationships are a key to releasing this untapped resource.
Pat is a consultant to a number of organizations dealing with crisis and change. She helps executives and managers resolve conflicts that can hamper optimal group performance. Using an organization’s vision, mission statement, strategies, and value set, she coaches executives in how to resolve problems. She helps them establish clear policies and accountabilities and coaches them during implementation. She is skilled at seeing the connection between individual psychology and team performance. Her knowledge of emotional trauma and its negative impact on creativity and innovation helps organizations avoid the negative fall-out of downsizing and layoffs.
For many years Pat has been studying, lecturing, and writing about human relationships. As the author of It’s Not Your Fault: How Healing Relationships Change Your Brain and Can Help You Overcome a Painful Past, she has traveled widely and spoken to diverse audiences in a variety of settings in both the private and public sectors. Her work emphasizes the dual impact of “attuned” relationships – they have a positive effect on both the neurobiology of the individual and upon the organization as a whole. Stress and trauma on the other hand create an unhealthy environment that can lead to problems for employees and lack of productivity for the organization.
The emotional element is often overlooked when organizations think about how to improve performance. As organizations become conscious of creating emotionally positive work environments, staff members begin to release their hidden creative potential.
In addition to her work with organizations, Pat formed a new company - Forensic Psychology Services in Baltimore, Maryland – where she provides expert witness testimony in court cases involving mental health issues and the law. She also is a specialist in women’s issues and a forensic expert in interpersonal violence and its effects.
Pat completed her undergraduate education at Rosemont College in Philadelphia and her graduate work leading to a Ph.D. in Educational and Counseling Psychology at the University of Kentucky. Her Post-Doctoral training in systems theory was completed at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Center associated with Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Pat is a reviewer for Psych Critiques, a publication of the American Psychological Association. She is an author who is comfortable integrating spiritual principles into her work. Her second book, Seeking the Wisdom of the Heart: The Journey Doesn’t End will be released in the spring of 2007.
In her spare time, Pat enjoys sailing her pocket cruiser “Meerschaum” on the Chesapeake Bay with her husband and her large family.
PUBLICATIONS
"Seeking the Wisdom of the Heart: The Journey Doesn’t End", by McGraw, Patricia Romano, Wilmette Illinois: Baha’i Publishing, May, 2007.
"Adolescence: Discovering the Forgotten Stage of Life", by McGraw, Patricia Romano, PsycCritiques, 2006.
"An Exploration of Spiritual Enlightenment in Daily Life", by McGraw, Patricia Romano, PsycCritiques, 2006.
"Prevent Sex Abuse by Treating Offenders", by
McGraw, Patricia Romano, Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 2005.
"It’s Not Your Fault: How Healing Relationships Change Your Brain and Can Help You Overcome a Painful Past", by McGraw, Patricia Romano, Wilmette Illinois: Baha’i Publishing, May, 2004.
"The ward function inventory (WFI): A scale for use with geriatric and demented inpatients", by Norton, J.C., Romano, P.O., & Sandifer, M.G., Diseases of the Nervous System, 38, 20-23; 1977.
"Cross-sex Friendship among married, middle class women and men", by Romano, P.O., A Dissertation in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky., 1986.
