June 1st, 2012
By Pamela Berard
Several Rhode Island agencies and advocates for the homeless drafted a plan that would emphasize long-term housing over temporary shelters.
In 2010, 95 percent of...
June 1st, 2012
By Catherine Robertson Souter
Psychologist, heal thyself…
A key component of the American Psychological Association’s code of ethics, self care is one of those widely accepted yet rarely enacted...
June 1st, 2012
By Phyllis Hanlon
Earlier this year, the American Psychological Association (APA) released findings from its 2011 survey Stress in America™: Our Health at Risk. In January, a distinguished...
June 1st, 2012
By Edward Stern J.D.
On Feb. 26, 2012 in Sanford, Florida, there was a confrontation between Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman. The result was the death of Trayvon Martin. With the exception of...
June 1st, 2012
By Janine Weisman
Over the past decade, Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology has seen its student body quadruple, the number of degree programs expand from one to 11 and its operating...
June 1st, 2012
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
The small room where the treatment team meets was crowded with hospital staff and representatives from the community where George would be going after his discharge. George...
May 1st, 2012
By Phyllis Hanlon
Approximately eight years after an Inpatient Study Report from the Department of Mental Health (DMH) recommended the consolidation of Worcester State Hospital with Westborough...
May 1st, 2012
By Pamela Berard
Reimbursement for Medicare outpatient psychotherapy services was slashed 5 percent as a result of recent payroll tax legislation passed by Congress and signed into law by...
May 1st, 2012
By Jennifer E Chase
A December 2011 study was the first to identify an obvious effect to a high-profile cause: The number of U.S. hospitals with child psychiatric units geared toward the special...
May 1st, 2012
By Phyllis Hanlon
Nearly a decade ago, the Institutes of Medicine (IOM) released the report “Unequal Treatment, Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care,” which drew...
