Patrick McCawley Florida Licensed and Board Certified Clinician
Patrick McCawley of Sarasota, Florida, is a licensed clinician in both Florida and Massachusetts and is nationally board-certified. He is also a board-qualified supervisor of clinicians completing internships McCawley has more than 25 years of experience providing specialized clinical evaluations and treatment, therapy, and counseling services for diverse populations, including adolescents, adults, geriatrics, and violent offenders/sexual offenders.
Throughout his career, McCawley has worked in various settings, including clinical psychology and counseling clinics, community mental health centers, residential treatment programs, psychiatric hospitals, and forensic institutions, utilizing empirically validated and evidence-based comprehensive clinical assessments coupled with individual and group treatments that involve cognitive/behavioral, behavior modification, dialectical behavioral therapy, solution-focused skill-building, and insight-oriented therapies, among other practices
McCawley has served as an administrator in a treatment program as Clinical Director and provided clinical supervision to mental health professionals completing internships
His expertise is in developing comprehensive treatment plans that are highly individualistic to a patient’s clinical case and treatment needs These plans apply specific clinical methods, strategies, and interventions to enhance the quality of life fully.
McCawley’s Clinical Specialty Areas
Patrick McCawley of Florida is educated, trained, and experienced in several critical clinical specialty areas These include working with individuals with neurocognitive disorders (traumatic brain injuries, post-concussion syndrome, head trauma from sports injuries, strokes, neurologically-based conditions, and residual COVID-related syndromes), neurodegenerative disorders (Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, Parkinson’s/Lewy Body disease, Pick’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, and various dementias and age-related cognitive decline)
He provides cognitive rehabilitation and retraining (memory/attention-concentration/mental processing speed/cognitive flexibility/speech-language/executive functions) and pain management for those suffering from headaches, fibromyalgia, neuropathy, and cervical-lumbar pain
McCawley’s other areas of expertise include behavioral medicine/health psychology, mood disorders/depression/anxiety/adjustment reactions/trauma, personality disorders, substance use disorders/addictions, anger management, phase of life issues, stress management, grief/loss/bereavement, sexual disorders/men’s issues, and sports psychology
His Professional Career
Patrick McCawley of Florida is a licensed clinician at Comprehensive MedPsych Systems in Sarasota, Florida, a nationally recognized group of experienced, compassionate, board-certified physicians, neuropsychologists, and mental health professionals. Before his current position, McCawley worked for 16 years at the Florida Civil Commitment Center (FCCC), completing specialized clinical evaluations with sexually violent predators
He was the clinical director at a secure treatment facility in a forensic program for juvenile offenders and sexual offenders, and he served as a neuropsychology clinician/cognitive rehabilitation specialist at a medical practice in neurosurgery/neurology/neuropsychology
McCawley served as a psychological specialist and hostile tactics negotiator on a special operations response team (SORT Team) with the Department of Corrections, performing forensic psychological assessments with violent offenders coupled with assisting law enforcement agencies, such as the Federal Bureau of Prisons and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Department (ICE) in the application of behavioral analysis methodologies for assessing crime scenes. McCawley has conducted comprehensive clinical evaluations and psychological assessments with high-profile violent offenders and sexual offenders in the prison system and forensic institutions
Academic Background
McCawley completed clinical practicum training at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital in neuropsychological evaluation of patients with various types of head injuries, brain trauma, and dementias
Clinical Research
Patrick McCawley of Florida has participated in several research projects, including in clinical neuropsychology and the forensic psychological/behavioral sciences For the Florida Commitment Center, McCawley’s research was on the “Data Collection for Inter-Rater Reliability of Sex Offenders” and the “Data Collection for DSM-5 Proposed Paraphilic Diagnoses with Paraphilic Coercive Disorder and Pedohebephilic Disorder”
His doctoral dissertation was on “A Neuropsychological Day Treatment Program for Evaluation and Treatment of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury His Master’s Degree thesis was on Alcohol Dependence-The Role of Neurotransmitters in the Detoxification Process of Ethyl Alcohol.”
McCawley’s other research included “Data Collection for Lupron Pharmacotherapeutic Effectiveness in Treatment of Cognitive Symptoms of Dementia” and “Data Collection: Wechsler Memory Scale-III (WMS-III) ”
He has presented at numerous training seminars and professional conferences in clinical neuropsychology, forensic psychology, clinical assessment of violent offenders/sexual offenders, and diagnostic formulation, among other topics.
Additionally, McCawley has participated in the development of clinical assessments for the evaluation of head injuries, concussions, and criminal behaviors of violent offenders.
