December 1st, 2012
By James K Luiselli EdD ABPP BCBA-D
“Methodological Approaches to Community-Based Research”
Edited by Leonard A. Jason and David S. Glenwick
American Psychological Association
Washington,...
December 1st, 2012
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
There is nothing like misfortune to focus our attention on the importance of community. In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, we are hearing stories about the way the hardest...
December 1st, 2012
By Mitch Abblett Ph.D.
Valuing instead of evaluating your work
I was in graduate school when I happened upon a flier for a literary panel discussion featuring some lions of the literary...
November 1st, 2012
By Phyllis Hanlon
In 1987, Francine Shapiro, Ph.D., senior research fellow emeritus at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, Calif., director of the EMDR Institute and founder of the EMDR...
November 1st, 2012
By Pamela Berard
California became the first state to ban licensed mental health professionals from engaging in sexual orientation change efforts (often called reparative or conversion therapy)...
November 1st, 2012
By Phyllis Hanlon
Magellan Health Services Inc. announced that as of Aug. 15 its subsidiary, Magellan Health Behavioral Health Inc., became one of several vendors to administer the Military...
November 1st, 2012
By Phyllis Hanlon
The wars, both recent and past, have been the cause of significant visible and invisible injuries to military personnel serving in these conflicts. As the number of returning...
November 1st, 2012
By Catherine Robertson Souter
When Hurricane Irene tore through Vermont in the summer of 2011, it took with it the 120-year-old state hospital in Waterbury. The 52 beds lost in the flooding caused by the...
November 1st, 2012
By Janine Weisman
Bob Breen, Ph.D., is going to vote no on Rhode Island’s statewide Questions 1 and 2 on Nov. 6. But the licensed clinical psychologist and director of Rhode Island...
November 1st, 2012
By Pamela Berard
In just three years, the Brattleboro Retreat Uniformed Service Program (USP) in Vermont has helped about 1,200 uniformed service professionals deal with issues including...