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Working with clients of color requires training, more listening
By Catherine Robertson Souter
In a perfect world, the color of one’s skin should not affect a therapeutic relationship. However, this is America 2020 and it apparently does.
For instance,...
Researchers at UMass Amherst create device to understand schizophrenia
By Eileen Weber
What if there is a way to better understand schizophrenia just by having patients wear a device? Two researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are in the process...
How to best present yourself while delivering telehealth
By Catherine Robertson Souter
Across the country, as we deal with the fall-out from the COVID-19 pandemic, therapists are turning to video platforms for delivering care. For some, it’s an extension...
Pandemic affects everyone, especially autistic kids
By Eileen Weber
Coronavirus, or COVID-19 , has ground most of daily life to a halt for weeks. Small businesses are shut down. Children aren’t going to school. People are confined to...
Bill aims to improve access and boost workforce
By Catherine Robertson Souter
Tags: access, legislation, Massachusetts, Mental Health ABC Act: Addressing Barriers to Care, mental health bill, psychiatric emergency
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Sport psychology: Promoting performance & protecting health
By Phyllis Hanlon
The study of sports psychology can be traced to 1925 when Coleman Griffith founded the first American sports laboratory at the University of Illinois, which operated...
Boston Child Study Center had head start in rapid shift to 100% telehealth
By Janine Weisman
Struggle to find affordable, in-network mental health treatment is real
By Janine Weisman
Are more psychologists serving only self-pay patients? Difficulties with insurance companies highlighted
By Catherine Robertson Souter
The complaints documented in a 2019 survey released by the Connecticut Psychological Association (CPA) illustrate the on-going difficulties that psychologists have with...
Opioid crisis escalates need for foster care
By Eileen Weber
It’s no secret that the opioid crisis has taken a toll in this country. But according to the CDC’s National Center for Health...