Articles, Leading Stories

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...

June 1st, 2012

Plan emphasizes housing for long-term homeless adults

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

Self care at core of committee’s work

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

Stress in America: a chronic condition

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

‘Stand Your Ground’ case examined

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

MSPP readies for new Newton campus

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...