November 1st, 2013
By Phyllis Hanlon
On October 8, Ken Duckworth, M.D., medical director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, discussed his thoughts on a variety of mental health issues in an informal event...
November 1st, 2013
By Catherine Robertson Souter
In a situation that was still unfolding at press time, the state of Maine has been informed that Medicare/Medicaid funding for services at the state hospital have been...
November 1st, 2013
By Susan Gonsalves
A recent study published in Health Services Research tracking mental health care episodes found that blacks and Latinos are much less likely to initiate treatment. And whites...
November 1st, 2013
By Howard Newman
In addition to the conventional steps of suicide prevention (education, training, a 24-hour hotline, increased public awareness, etc.), the New Hampshire Suicide Prevention...
November 1st, 2013
By Catherine Robertson Souter
For those who suffer from chronic pain, it can be difficult to separate who they are from what they feel. For many, the pain can cause a host of other ailments from depression...
November 1st, 2013
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
If dreams, as Freud famously wrote, are the royal road to the unconscious, then perception must surely be at least a serviceable two-lane highway to our understanding of...
November 1st, 2013
By James K Luiselli EdD ABPP BCBA-D
“Evidence-Based Applied Sport Psychology: A Practitioner’s Manual”
By Roland A. Carlstedt
Springer Publishing Company, LLC
New York, N.Y.,...
October 1st, 2013
By Phyllis Hanlon
When it comes to treating mental disorders, psychologists have an arsenal of tools at their disposal. But that armament may need to be refined when the client has a physical...
October 1st, 2013
By Catherine Robertson Souter
The numbers are going in the wrong direction for certain clients of the mental health care system in Maine. Although nearly a quarter of a century has passed since Maine...
October 1st, 2013
By Janine Weisman
As a teen with an anxiety disorder growing up in Wilton, Conn., Brandon Cohn felt frustrated spending the first 20 minutes of every therapy session explaining what happened to...
