Articles, Leading Stories
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
‘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...
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...