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DSM-5 includes changes
By Pamela Berard
Psychologists are preparing for major changes in the fifth edition of the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” (DSM-5), to be published in...
Telepsychology guidelines anticipated
By Janine Weisman
When patients initiate text messaging with Leslie A. Feil, Ph.D., she won’t text back on clinical issues but responds with a phone call instead. The Rhode Island...
Proposed disclosure bill raises legal, practice questions
By Susan Gonsalves
Part of a young person’s development involves separation from parents and becoming independent. A bill introduced to Congress late last year would disrupt that natural order...
GIC awards mental health contract to Beacon
By Catherine Robertson Souter
In a move that has drawn criticism from some local psychologists, the Group Insurance Commission (GIC), the Massachusetts agency that oversees insurance for state employees and...
Study: parity provides relief for most vulnerable
By Howard Newman
We’re well aware of what “parity” – as it applies to mental health insurance coverage – is supposed to do. In a perfect world, parity mandates that insurance...
Report: Mental health care for children lacking
By Greg Hitchcock
According to a government report, requested by U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), and Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Calif.), children’s mental health...
Substance Use Disorder change gets mixed response
By Pamela Berard
One DSM-5 change that has divided mental health experts is the new category of Substance Use Disorder, which combines the DSM-IV Substance Abuse and Substance Dependence...
DSM-5 to include binge eating disorder
By Phyllis Hanlon
When the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders fifth version (DSM-5) is released this May, binge eating disorder (BED) will have its own diagnostic code....
Bill proposes funding for mental health ‘first aid’ training
By Jo Kadlecek
Kate Roberts, Ph.D., a certified school psychologist who has practices in two Massachusetts towns, has spent more than 25 years in schools and with families helping them...
Task force member discusses health care reform efforts
By Catherine Robertson Souter
Issues with the health care system are coming to a head in this country. As health care delivery evolves in response to calls and mandates for far-reaching reform, concerns of...