Articles, Leading Stories
Prison’s mental health unit is expanded in Maine
By Catherine Robertson Souter
A prison-based mental health unit in Maine’s state correctional facility in Warren will see a 16-person staff expansion as part of the state’s plan to address serious...
States make progress reducing nursing home antipsychotics use
By Janine Weisman
Rhode Island leads the region with the lowest use of antipsychotic medications among long-term nursing home patients with dementia, according to the latest data from Nursing...
Massive survey studies children’s behavior
By Howard Newman
A recently concluded study by Brown University School of Medicine, the Children’s National Medical Center and the New England Center for Pediatric Psychology is unique in...
Anxiety patients get treated via primary care
By Rivkela Brodsky
Patients dealing with anxiety disorders in primary care appear to get treatment – although it sometimes takes years for it to happen – and this situation occurred less for...
Prescription drug deaths high in R.I.
By Catherine Robertson Souter
Along with the increase of prescription drug use in the U.S., the number of drug-related deaths has risen sharply across the country with some states seeing rates quadruple...
Program addresses co-occurring eating disorders and diabetes
By Phyllis Hanlon
The American Diabetes Association reports that research suggests eating disorders may be more common among women who also have diabetes than in those who do not. Until...
Departing MPA executive director reflects on tenure
By Catherine Robertson Souter
For the past two decades, the same face, the same name has been so linked with the Massachusetts Psychological Association, that it will be very strange when she is no longer...
Beyond the black box
By Susan Gonsalves
Benefits of early intervention highlighted
It’s time for everyone embedded in the behavioral health world to “move out of the treatment black box,” develop a...
Outpatient treatment legislation revisited
By Phyllis Hanlon
On October 22, the Joint Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse in Massachusetts held a public hearing on House Bill 1792/Senate Bill 906, which calls for assisted...
The Kennedy forum
By Phyllis Hanlon
Uniting the community of mental health
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Community Mental Health Act of 1963, signed by President John F. Kennedy, former Congressman...