January 1st, 2014
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...
January 1st, 2014
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...
January 1st, 2014
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...
January 1st, 2014
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...
January 1st, 2014
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...
January 1st, 2014
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...
January 1st, 2014
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
A gentle rain is falling outside the upstairs window as I write these words at the turning of another year. The holiday season is upon us with Thanksgiving, Hanukah, Christmas...
January 1st, 2014
By James K Luiselli EdD ABPP BCBA-D
“Problem-Solving Therapy: A Treatment Manual”
By Arthur M. Nezu, Christine Maguth Nezu, and Thomas J. D’Zurilla
Springer Publishing Company
New York,...
December 1st, 2013
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...
December 1st, 2013
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...
