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Numerous deficiencies reported at CT juvenile centers
By Phyllis Hanlon
Tags: Connecticut, Connecticut Office of the Child Advocate, educational opportunities, juvenile centers, mental health evaluations
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Vermont’s new mental health commissioner Sarah Squirrell ready to face challenges
By Margarita Tartakovsky, MS
Like many states, Vermont is in dire need of mental health reform. Sarah Squirrell, Vermont’s newest mental health commissioner, said there are no easy answers to the complex...
Letter to the Editor: MPA responds to editorial on compensation
By New England Psychologist Staff
Political Psychology: A discipline of borrowers
By Phyllis Hanlon
Unlike other niche areas, political psychology eludes precise definition. Rather, the practice could probably best be described as a smorgasbord of disciplines that includes...
Yale report shows corrections agencies are reducing use of solitary confinement
By Janine Weisman
Latham Centers offers unique program for kids with Prader-Willi Syndrome
By Margarita Tartakovsky, MS
Tags: anxiety, asinotherapy, behavioral problems, developmental disabilities, donkey therapy, emotional problems, insatiable appetite, Prader-Willi Syndrome, skin picking
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Benton Center retrofitted for psychiatric patients
By Phyllis Hanlon
Tags: clinical social worker, correctional detention, DCYF, mental health assessment, psychiatric patients, pyschiatrist, Roosevelt Benton Center, treatment, youth
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