Articles, Leading Stories
Vermont considers mental health licensure reform
By Beth Negus Viveiros
New recommendations from Vermont’s Office of Professional Regulation’s (OPR) aim to streamline licensing for the state’s mental health professions.
A new report...
Five Mass. cities designated as `sanctuaries,’ for transgender population
By Susan Gonsalves
In March, Cambridge, Pittsfield and Boston became the latest communities to designate themselves as “sanctuary cities,” for transgender people, following in the path of...
Training artificial intelligence therapists
By Ellen Anderson, Ph.D
This month, my electronic medical record platform introduced an artificial intelligence tool to improve documentation of progress notes. Naturally skeptical, I felt certain it...
Medicare telehealth waiver extended again
By Eileen Weber
Telehealth just had a pretty close call.
For those relying on Medicare, the expiration deadline for the telehealth waiver was set for March 31. The waiver was originally...
Psychological first aid available following traumatic events
By Eileen Weber
As Americans, we have seen our fair share of disasters. We have witnessed countless mass shootings in schools, theaters, clubs, and even concerts. Massive storms, floods, and...
The president and the poet
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
It had snowed heavily the night before, and the day dawned with a frigid wind and blinding sunlight that glinted off the blanket of white spread out in all directions where the...
Study finds unequal reimbursement rates in CT’s mental healthcare
By Eileen Weber
Late last year, the Office of Health Strategy (OHS), outlined payment parity issues with Connecticut’s...
Preventing unplanned therapy termination
By Ellen Anderson, Ph.D
If only therapy would end neatly when the client reaches the desired goals! It is not always easy for the client or the therapist to determine when and how to end therapy. In a...
Advice given for treating immigrant population
By Catherine Robertson Souter
America is a “nation of immigrants,’ as President Kennedy once said, where we like to think of ourselves as a land of refuge and promise. What we have proudly...
Still hoping for the world we want
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
It was two in the morning when a chartered bus carrying 30 idealistic teenagers drove up to a hangar at New York’s Kennedy airport where a propeller-driven Iceland Airlines...