Articles, Columnists

June 1st, 2012

Stop the world, I want to get on

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

New hospital promotes recovery, resiliency and respect

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

Medicare cuts may spur withdrawals

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

Autism-specific child psychiatry units grow in New England hospitals

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

Closing the gap: appropriate mental health treatment for all

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...

May 1st, 2012

Law shifts care to community-based focus

By Pamela Berard

Vermont legislators passed legislation to create a decentralized system of mental health care in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene, which forced the closure of the 54-bed...

May 1st, 2012

Brattleboro Retreat undergoes $12 million upgrade

By Pamela Berard

The Brattleboro Retreat is in the midst of a $12 million upgrade, which includes unit renovations and the addition of an electronic medical records system and the Omnicell...

May 1st, 2012

High Point plans 96-bed Middleborough facility

By Janine Weisman

The High Point Treatment Center has set a July 2014 target date to open a new 96-bed mental health and detox and rehabilitation facility on the site of the former St Luke’s...

May 1st, 2012

The Providence Center helps bring first recovery school to R.I.

By Jennifer E Chase

Teens recovering from substance abuse have benefited from New England’s recovery high schools, which bridge the time between their discharge from treatment and the rigors of...

May 1st, 2012

Social Anxiety in Adolescents and Young Adults: Translating Developmental Science Into Practice

By James K Luiselli EdD ABPP BCBA-D

“Social Anxiety in Adolescents and Young Adults: Translating Developmental Science Into Practice”

Edited by Candice A. Alfano and Deborah C....