April 1st, 2012
By Jennifer E Chase
For several years, a workgroup at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in Bethesda, Md., has been designing a framework for creating a new way to classify mental...
April 1st, 2012
By Janine Weisman
Can recovery mean the same thing to someone with a mental health disorder and someone with a drug or alcohol addiction?
The answer is ‘yes’ under the Substance Abuse...
April 1st, 2012
By Jennifer E Chase
A new five-year study at Rhode Island Hospital – in collaboration with the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston – will for the first time test...
April 1st, 2012
By James K Luiselli EdD ABPP BCBA-D
“Wheels Down: Adjusting to Life After Deployment”
By Bret A. Moore and Carrie H. Kennedy
American Psychological Association
Washington, D.C.,...
April 1st, 2012
By Jennifer E Chase
With the publish date of the DSM-5 roughly a year away, a new community of skeptics has emerged in autism advocates and clinicians, many of whom fear a revision to the autism...
April 1st, 2012
By Edward Stern J.D.
Societies have provided in law a number of privileges. According to Black’s Law Dictionary, Fifth Edition, a privilege is “a particular and peculiar benefit or advantage...
April 1st, 2012
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
When I caught myself humming the refrain of a Frank Sinatra song under my breath after morning rounds, I knew I was in for a rough day. That’s the beauty of relapse...
March 1st, 2012
By Nan Shnitzler
For the first time, the American Psychological Association (APA) has launched an initiative to develop evidence-based clinical treatment guidelines. The Council of...
March 1st, 2012
By Catherine Robertson Souter
With the announced plan to close the 157-year-old Taunton State Hospital, a Massachusetts mental health facility, by the end of the year, the state has taken another step...
March 1st, 2012
By Nan Shnitzler
For the past three months, Maine has been grappling with a supplemental budget that cuts $220 million from the Department of Health and Human Services for the current and...
