April 1st, 2014
By Susan Gonsalves
Researchers at Yale University have developed a program to teach coping skills to alcohol and substance abuse patients. Lead author Kathleen Carroll, Ph.D., professor of...
April 1st, 2014
By Pamela Berard
As part of a partnership between Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island (BCBSRI) and ValueOptions, Rhode Island mental health clinicians have access to ValueOptions’ On...
April 1st, 2014
By Howard Newman
In the wake of the tragic shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, gun-control activists in some states have called for more expansive background checks on those who...
April 1st, 2014
By Janine Weisman
To understand the challenges facing reformers who want to eliminate the practice of physical restraint and seclusion of schoolchildren, look no further than numbers reported in...
April 1st, 2014
By Catherine Robertson Souter
It’s a fact of human nature that Hollywood banks on: humans are both extremely empathetic and have an amazing ability to put ourselves into a storyline. While those talents...
April 1st, 2014
By Paul Efthim PhD
“Humanity’s Dark Side: Evil, Destructive Experience, and Psychotherapy”
Edited by Arthur C. Bohart, Barbara S. Held, Edward Mendelowitz & Kirk J....
April 1st, 2014
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
It’s cold – deep, penetrating, bone-chilling, soul-killing cold. That sentence may be a peculiar thing to read when this issue hits the streets on the first of April but...
March 1st, 2014
By Phyllis Hanlon
Addressing rejection, self-esteem and fear
Just about everyone has experienced some type of setback in life, but reactions to those experiences vary from one...
March 1st, 2014
By Catherine Robertson Souter
For many psychologists, the issues that come up outside the therapy room are the ones that cause the most stress. From dealing with insurance regulations to communicating with...
March 1st, 2014
By Rivkela Brodsky
As a means to ease an emergency room crisis, state lawmakers hope to accelerate the timetable on a plan to add a 10-bed stabilization unit to New Hampshire Hospital.
The...
