March 1st, 2012
By Pamela Berard
Youth suicide prevention is at the forefront of efforts in two New England states. Connecticut experienced a rash of suicides last fall while a Rhode Island study showed an...
March 1st, 2012
By Phyllis Hanlon
Five years ago, the American Psychological Association shifted its thinking regarding licensure requirements. In lieu of the traditional postdoctoral experience, the APA...
March 1st, 2012
By Janine Weisman
Massachusetts Department of Mental Health Commissioner Barbara Leadholm delivered the bad news to Taunton State Hospital staff Jan. 24: the 169-bed psychiatric facility would...
March 1st, 2012
By Jennifer E Chase
A spate of suicide prevention programs have cropped up on U.S. college and university campuses since the end of 2011, thanks to a nationwide grant from the Substance Abuse and...
March 1st, 2012
By Phyllis Hanlon
In 2008, the Bureau of Behavioral Health within the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) analyzed the state’s mental health system and presented its findings and...
March 1st, 2012
By Catherine Robertson Souter
Anthropologist Margaret Mead once said, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever...
March 1st, 2012
By Paul Efthim PhD
“Fairbairn’s Object Relations Theory in the Clinical Setting”
By David P. Celani
Columbia University Press
New York, N.Y. 2010
Despite its...
March 1st, 2012
By James K Luiselli EdD ABPP BCBA-D
“How to Find Mental Health Care for Your Child”
By Ellen B. Braaten, Ph.D.
American Psychological Association
Washington, D.C., 2011
Accessible...
March 1st, 2012
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
In the course of my career as a psychologist, I have witnessed the closing of many of the hospitals but I have never seen a new one open. That is about to change with the...
February 1st, 2012
By Phyllis Hanlon
Fourteen years ago, Rep. Kay Khan (D-Newton) filed a bill (H.1419) intended to prevent tragedies because of medication non-compliance and inadequate treatment for mental health...
