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January 3rd, 2024

Poll: Less than half of Gen Z Americans are thriving

By Susan Gonsalves

More mental health struggles reported
Less than half (47 percent) of Gen Z Americans are thriving...

January 3rd, 2024

Here’s to what 2024 holds

By John Grohol, Psy.D.

With another passing year, I look forward to what 2024 brings—especially because 2023 has been something else.

We’ve seen the economy struggle and incomes shrink....

January 2nd, 2024

‘Stress in America’ survey shows adults have collective trauma

By Susan Gonsalves

Data from the most recent “Stress in America,” survey shows that people of all ages are still...

January 2nd, 2024

NH child advocate lobbies for lawmakers to rethink abuse, neglect placements

By Eileen Weber

Out- of-state residences would be last resort
Children in abuse and neglect cases are typically...

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...

January 2nd, 2024

On growing old gracefully – or not

By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.

As I sit at my desk in a too quiet house, I am thinking about my wife who is spending the day with a friend on a senior citizens’ bus trip to view the New England countryside...

January 2nd, 2024

Virtual reality helps Black autistic youth discuss depression

By Beth Negus Viveiros

A Boston College professor has developed a new virtual reality (VR) tool to help Black youth on the...

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,...

December 4th, 2023

What can therapists learn from older adult clients?

By Ellen Anderson, Ph.D

Most mornings, I drink from a coffee cup featuring an owl, given to me by a client nearly 15 years ago. She was in her 80s and in failing health. Her death occurred after I...