Articles, Leading Stories

June 1st, 2013

Goal of program is to make technology useful for kids

By Catherine Robertson Souter

In 2010, the Kaiser Foundation reported that children spend more than seven hours each day with entertainment media, including time on a computer at home or at school, playing...

June 1st, 2013

“Body Shots: Hollywood and the Culture of Eating Disorders”

By Paul Efthim PhD

“Body Shots: Hollywood and the Culture of Eating Disorders”

By Emily Fox-Kales

State University of New York Press

Albany, N.Y., 2011

Media...

June 1st, 2013

“The Science of Attorney Advocacy: How Courtroom Behavior Affects Jury Decision Making”

By James K Luiselli EdD ABPP BCBA-D

“The Science of Attorney Advocacy: How Courtroom Behavior Affects Jury Decision Making”

By Jessica D. Findley and Bruce D. Sales

American Psychological...

June 1st, 2013

Not quite all Bostonians now

By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.

I learned about the marathon bombings somewhere on the New Jersey Turnpike when our daughter, who lives and works in Boston, called to say that she was safe. It was an odd way...

May 1st, 2013

Treating mental illness in the elderly: Achieving stability through inpatient care

By Phyllis Hanlon

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) reports that approximately 5.6 to 8 million Americans 65 and older have mental health or substance use disorders; those figures are expected to...

May 1st, 2013

Smoking bans at facilities are more common

By Pamela Berard

After initial controversy, the practice of prohibiting smoking in inpatient psychiatric facilities has taken hold.

In decades past, many considered smoking one of the...

May 1st, 2013

Hospital ER improves psychiatric care

By Janine Weisman

The patient brought to Cape Cod Hospital’s Emergency Center in Feb. 2011 with self-inflicted left wrist lacerations denied being suicidal. But after sutures and a behavioral...

May 1st, 2013

Sequestration: an unknown future for social service agencies

By Phyllis Hanlon

On March 1, the deadlocked debate on the economic future of the country resulted in approximately $85.4 billion in federal spending cuts. Known as the sequester, the funding...

May 1st, 2013

Process delayed in Aetna lawsuit settlement

By Catherine Robertson Souter

A class action lawsuit against health insurance company Aetna has apparently been settled out of court. In December, it was announced that Aetna agreed to settle a class action...

May 1st, 2013

ICD-10 code change deadline pushed back

By Catherine Robertson Souter

While some psychologists are still dealing with the aftermath of changes to CPT codes in January, another, and much broader, code change deadline has been pushed back a...