Articles, Leading Stories
Summer camp provides emotional support
By Pamela Berard
A residential summer camp in Vermont supports children with a range of social, behavioral and emotional needs.
Camp Daybreak, offered to boys and girls 8-11 for one week...
Stepfamily relationships at heart of psychologist’s research
By Catherine Robertson Souter
According to the Pew Research Center, 42 percent of American adults are in some form of a blended family. Sound surprising? What is more surprising, according to Patricia...
Practitioner safety: more training needed
By Phyllis Hanlon
Approximately three years after getting licensed, C. Avila Wright, Ph.D., worked in an inpatient setting where she was assaulted by a patient. With limited training in...
Demand grows for inpatient ASD and ID programs
By Janine Weisman
Half the beds in a new eight-bed inpatient unit heralded as Connecticut’s first specialized psychiatric unit for children with autism and developmental disorders were still...
Vermont examining its residential facility needs
By Pamela Berard
A report recently presented to the Vermont state legislature outlines preliminary recommendations related to the development of a new secure residential facility to address the...
TaraVista Behavioral Health Center to open in Devens, Mass.
By Catherine Robertson Souter
In a move that should ease the overburdening of inpatient beds across the state, central Massachusetts will soon see the opening of a new 108-bed mental health facility. Health...
Bournewood to debut partial hospital program
By Pamela Berard
Bournewood Hospital, a 90-bed, full-service independent privately-owned psychiatric facility in Brookline, Mass., in May will debut a new Mental Health Partial Hospital...
Brattleboro Retreat seeks state funding for new adolescent unit
By Phyllis Hanlon
When the Brattleboro Retreat was founded in 1834 with a $10,000 bequest from Anna Marsh, the facility served, and continues to serve, a range of patients from children and...
Report examines health indicators on county basis
By Rivkela Brodsky
There is something like a chicken-or-the-egg dilemma coming out of a new county-level analysis of U.S. licensed psychologists done by the American Psychological Association’s...
Spring Harbor Hospital to re-open 12 bed unit
By Rivkela Brodsky
Maine’s Spring Harbor Hospital will be able to reopen a previously closed unit of 12 psychiatric beds by the end of September thanks to a good chunk of funding from the...