Articles, Leading Stories

November 1st, 2012

Reparative therapy banned in California

By Pamela Berard

California became the first state to ban licensed mental health professionals from engaging in sexual orientation change efforts (often called reparative or conversion therapy)...

November 1st, 2012

DOD contracts with Magellan for counseling services

By Phyllis Hanlon

Magellan Health Services Inc. announced that as of Aug. 15 its subsidiary, Magellan Health Behavioral Health Inc., became one of several vendors to administer the Military...

November 1st, 2012

VA expands support for veterans’ research, education

By Phyllis Hanlon

The wars, both recent and past, have been the cause of significant visible and invisible injuries to military personnel serving in these conflicts. As the number of returning...

November 1st, 2012

Flood may have silver lining

By Catherine Robertson Souter

When Hurricane Irene tore through Vermont in the summer of 2011, it took with it the 120-year-old state hospital in Waterbury. The 52 beds lost in the flooding caused by the...

November 1st, 2012

Ballot questions could impact problem gambling treatment

By Janine Weisman

Bob Breen, Ph.D., is going to vote no on Rhode Island’s statewide Questions 1 and 2 on Nov. 6. But the licensed clinical psychologist and director of Rhode Island...

November 1st, 2012

Program helps service professionals

By Pamela Berard

In just three years, the Brattleboro Retreat Uniformed Service Program (USP) in Vermont has helped about 1,200 uniformed service professionals deal with issues including...

November 1st, 2012

Diagnosis changes psychologist’s work, life

By Catherine Robertson Souter

Ten years ago, Michael McManmon’s life changed drastically. When the founder of a post-secondary college and employment program for young adults with learning differences was...

November 1st, 2012

A presidential psychopath?

By Janine Weisman

Research has suggested politicians, especially U.S. presidents, are narcissists. But are they psychopaths too?

Successful ones share a boldness associated with...

October 1st, 2012

ADHD: Research expands understanding of a complicated and common diagnosis

By Phyllis Hanlon

In the last 15 years, research into attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has shed more light on this complicated diagnosis, reaffirming some concepts and dispelling...

October 1st, 2012

Colleges focus on threat assessments

By Pamela Berard

In the aftermath of the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater shootings, the issue of students and mental health is again in the spotlight.

Kristine Bertini, Psy.D., senior...