Articles, Leading Stories

April 1st, 2025

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...

April 1st, 2025

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...

April 1st, 2025

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...

April 1st, 2025

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...

April 1st, 2025

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...

April 1st, 2025

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...

March 2nd, 2025

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...

March 2nd, 2025

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...

March 2nd, 2025

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...

March 1st, 2025

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...