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Psychologists help people navigate life transitions
By Phyllis Hanlon
Tags: chronic illness, counseling, death of a loved one, divorce, injury, marriage, new baby, new job, Psychological intervention, therapy
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Grants to NAMI Rhode Island fund youth programs
By Pamela Berard
Tags: adolescents, Ending the Silence, high school students, mental health awareness, mental health education programs, middle school children, middle-schoolers, NAMI Rhode Island, Parents and Teachers as Allies, youth
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Trauma training, reality TV all in a day’s work for Jessica Griffin, Psy.D
By Catherine Robertson Souter
Report documents problems at Maine detention center
By Janine Weisman
Tags: forced overtime, juvenile detention center, kids, Long Creek Youth Development Center, Maine, residential facilities, self-harming behavior, suicide prevention, transgender death, understaffing, youth
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More work to be done to meet need for child mental health services
By Janine Weisman
Treatment varies for sexual offenders
By Phyllis Hanlon
Clinicians who treat sexual offenders tailor treatment to the offense.
Throughout her career Susan Rudman, Ph.D., Northern Regional representative for the Massachusetts...
Anti-clawback bill makes progress in legislature
By Janine Weisman
A proposed six-month limit on the ability of insurance companies to retroactively deny claims for mental health and substance abuse services has advanced in the Massachusetts...
‘Weinstein effect’ comes to campus
By Janine Weisman
He was once one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. Then allegations of decades of sexual assault and harassment dethroned film producer Harvey Weinstein last fall, rocking...
Minors can be treated without permission
By Pamela Berard
Vermont minors can now consent to receive outpatient treatment from a mental health professional without the consent of a parent or legal guardian.
Newly enacted...