Articles, Leading Stories
Four New England states among nation’s healthiest
By Janine Weisman
Massachusetts ranked second after Hawaii as the healthiest overall state in the nation in the latest America’s Health Rankings Annual Report released in December...
ICD-11 release delayed until 2018
By Catherine Robertson Souter
In 2015, the United States belatedly joined the rest of the world in implementing the most updated version of the World Health Organization’s coding system for medical...
Addiction Campus opens in Massachusetts
By Rivkela Brodsky
Addiction Campuses, a company based in Brentwood, Tenn., offering comprehensive drug and alcohol treatment programs at facilities around the country has opened its fourth...
Surgeon General report: A call to action on addiction
By Rivkela Brodsky
In November 2016, the U.S. Surgeon General for the first time issued a report on alcohol, drugs, and health – calling addiction, “one of America’s most pressing public...
APF names Terence Keane, Ph.D., to top post
By Catherine Robertson Souter
After nearly 17 years under the same leadership, the American Psychological Foundation (APF) recently announced that Terence M. Keane, Ph.D, was elected to assume the...
Election prompts anxiety, confusion
By Phyllis Hanlon
In the wake of what many print, broadcast and social media outlets have called one of the “most divisive” political campaigns in recent memory, a mixture of emotions...
APA president-elect named
By Janine Weisman
Near the end of the monthly psychology training committee meeting at Boston Children’s Hospital last November, Jessica Henderson Daniel, Ph.D., ABPP, gave the floor to a...
Prescriptive authority among VPA legislative initiatives
By Rivkela Brodsky
The Vermont Psychological Association has three main areas of focus for the 2017 state legislative session: healthcare reform, insurance coverage of telehealth services and...
New Hampshire prepares bills for filing
By Catherine Robertson Souter
While other New England states may have their legislative agenda set for the coming year, things work slightly differently in New Hampshire.
With the third largest...
Budget climate defines legislative agenda
By Janine Weisman
With a projected $1.3 billion deficit in the fiscal 2018 state budget, Connecticut lawmakers will again face the prospect of raising taxes and fees and cutting services when...