Articles, Leading Stories
Union wants metal detectors at Department of Mental Health sites
By Susan Gonsalves
Representatives of workers at inpatient mental health facilities around Massachusetts fear that it’s inevitable people will be seriously injured or killed if action is not...
Online program to address insomnia in young cancer survivors
By Susan Gonsalves
Pediatric cancer survivors suffer the effects of insomnia even after treatment has ended. Untreated, lack of sleep can cause an array of physical problems as well as impact...
Virtual reality: a clinically useful tool for psychologists
By Phyllis Hanlon
Middle-school children from a rural school in Vermont recently “connected” with peers in South Sudan. Some younger students studying ancient civilizations “traveled” to...
Grant to fund integrated care delivery system in Vermont
By Pamela Berard
The Vermont Department of Mental Health was recently awarded a five-year, $9.9 million federal grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to...
Prediction shows drop in opioid fatalities
By Catherine Robertson Souter
There may be a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel for the New Hampshire opioid crisis. At the very least there is some positive news coming from the state’s Office of...
Walden tackles LGBTQ eating disorders
By Eileen Weber
The statistics for eating disorders in the LGBTQ community are unsettling. According to the International Journal of Eating Disorders, 42 percent of men with this issue...
Program to focus on social justice, human rights
By Catherine Robertson Souter
After spending nearly a decade fighting for a change in how psychologists work with the Department of Defense around torture techniques, Stephen Soldz, Ph.D., a professor at...
Behavioral disorders: accurate diagnosis proves challenging
By Phyllis Hanlon
Children placed in residential care present with a variety of behavioral disorders, sometimes with more than one. Determining a specific diagnosis can be daunting for the...
Debate heats up over Trump’s mental health
By Janine Weisman
If he had to do it all over again, John Gartner, Ph.D., would have asked mental health professionals to state their degree when he launched an online petition drive last...
Program integrates physical, mental health
By Pamela Berard
Patients with serious mental illness who participated in a Behavioral Health Home (BHH) program saw reductions in emergency department (ED) visits and psychiatric...