February 1st, 2014
By Pamela Berard
The Connecticut Supreme Court in December considered several cases related to eyewitness testimony, including one in which the Connecticut Psychological Association is asking...
February 1st, 2014
By Howard Newman
Often, individuals experiencing an early episode of psychosis are hospitalized and medicated. It’s a relatively simple and cost-effective approach.
But is it...
February 1st, 2014
By Janine Weisman
Nearly one in 10 young people between ages 14 and 21 say they have committed sexual violence, often toward a date, in a national study that found links to exposure to violent...
February 1st, 2014
By Catherine Robertson Souter
After being closed for new admissions this fall, a Brookline psychiatric hospital has been re-opened for admission of most patients.
Complaints of a forced strip search...
February 1st, 2014
By Catherine Robertson Souter
With the Olympics taking center stage on many American television sets this month, the elite athlete stands (or skates, skis and jumps) in front of us as the epitome of skill,...
February 1st, 2014
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
There are new faces everywhere in the hospital and I am not just talking about new patients or staff. Just the other day, I ran into Jimmy Carter in the chapel and a colleague...
February 1st, 2014
By Paul Efthim PhD
“Cultural Psychotherapy: Theory, Methods, and Practice”
By Martin J. La Roche
Sage Publications
Los Angeles, CA, 2013
Thoughtful work may...
February 1st, 2014
By James K Luiselli EdD ABPP BCBA-D
“Burnout for Experts: Prevention in the Context of Living and Working”
By Sabine Bahrer-Kohler
Springer
New York, N.Y., 2013
Book’s...
January 1st, 2014
By Phyllis Hanlon
William A. Anthony, Ph.D., professor emeritus at Boston University and former executive director for its Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, dubbed the 1990s the “decade...
January 1st, 2014
By Pamela Berard
The federal government in November issued a final rule of the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, which spells out how the 2008...
