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March 4th, 2024

Connecticut Medical Center opens new pediatric facility

By Eileen Weber

Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford, Conn. is one of two units in New England and the...

March 1st, 2024

Text line option offered by Rutland Mental Health Services Community Care Network

By Danielle Ray

VERMONT – Rutland Mental Health Services Community Care Network began offering a text line around the...

February 3rd, 2024

Rhode Island joins PSYPACT to increase providers, decrease wait times

By Eileen Weber

Since the pandemic, mental health issues for both children and adults have increased, creating a...

February 3rd, 2024

CT makes recommendations to improve children’s behavioral health

By Eileen Weber

What came first, the increase in children’s mental health issues or the shortage in staff to help...

February 3rd, 2024

Harvard recruits influencers to share mental health information

By Beth Negus Viveiros

Harvard University is partnering with a team of TikTok and Instagram creators and influencers to engage...

January 5th, 2024

Youth trauma, staffing shortages impacting residential schools

By Phyllis Hanlon

Increased drug use also a factor
The American Psychological Association’s latest “Stress in...

January 4th, 2024

The League School’s neurodiversity project relies on community, business partnerships

By Eileen Weber

Career Learning Center in the works
Neurodiverse students display behaviors associated with autism...

January 2nd, 2024

Proposed legislation would ban aversive therapy in Massachusetts

By New England Psychologist Staff

Judge Rotenberg Center uses, defends practice
Opponents of the use of electric shock therapy to...

January 2nd, 2024

Judge Rotenberg Center is last in U.S. to use electric shock therapy

By Beth Negus Viveiros

Graduated electronic decelerator gets mixed reviews
Some families of residents at the Judge...

December 4th, 2023

New behavioral health hospital opens in Mass.

By Eileen Weber

Valley Springs Behavioral Health Hospital opened its doors late this summer to treat children,...