Articles, Leading Stories

July 1st, 2012

New divisions proposed for APA

By Phyllis Hanlon

The American Psychological Association (APA) currently has 54 divisions that cover a wide spectrum of psychological areas. That may change, however, if the Council of...

July 1st, 2012

Psychologist is diversity specialist, novelist

By Catherine Robertson Souter

They say that everyone has a novel in them and, for Deborah Plummer, Ph.D., getting that novel out onto paper started as escapism and turned into a well received novel about a...

July 1st, 2012

Mystery of a hospital’s sacred place

By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.

Not long ago a man I hardly knew and barely understood agreed to walk with me on the hospital grounds. I wanted to see if he was able to manage more privileges without getting...

July 1st, 2012

Shattered Glass: The Story of a Marine Embassy Guard

By Paul Efthim PhD

“Shattered Glass: The Story of a Marine Embassy Guard”

By Greg Matos

Two Harbors Press

Minneapolis, Minn, 2011

 Memoir offers insights into...

June 1st, 2012

Treatment resistance: A complex problem that requires multiple approaches

By Phyllis Hanlon

Individuals who suffer with mental illness have several treatment options from which to choose, including psychotherapy, behavioral therapy, short-term residential placement...

June 1st, 2012

Advice given to avoid professional legal pitfalls

By Jennifer E Chase

In a profession regulated by rules and boundaries established by governing bodies (and often, more personal ones practitioners impose on themselves), the legal issues that...

June 1st, 2012

Creation of licensing board still an issue

By Catherine Robertson Souter

Across the country, the practice of applied behavior analysis (ABA) has exploded. According to Steve Woolf, Ph.D., BCBA-D, president of the Massachusetts Association for...

June 1st, 2012

Funding will help support sharing of health records

By Pamela Berard

Maine and Rhode Island were two of five states to receive $600,000 in federal funding to help support the electronic sharing of health records among behavioral health and...

June 1st, 2012

Agency helps city increase school mental health services

By Jennifer E Chase

Boston schools are bolstering the psychological services they offer students by enlisting in private therapists – namely from Boston’s The Home for Little Wanderers – to...

June 1st, 2012

Pending legislation seeks to track seclusion in schools

By Phyllis Hanlon

The recent uproar over the use of “scream rooms” at the Farm Hill Elementary School in Middletown, Conn. has sparked a conversation about the use of seclusion and restraint...