Articles, Leading Stories

October 1st, 2017

Study: Smartphone use linked to mental health distress

By Susan Gonsalves

College students with high smartphone use report higher levels of depression, anxiety and loneliness, poorer sleep quality and difficulties fulfilling their obligations as a...

October 1st, 2017

Educational Treatment Center uses animals to reach teens

By Eileen Weber

Six years ago, Wes and Sue Horton, LMFT were looking for a change. They found it at Ironwood, a residential treatment center and private, co-educational school for teens in...

October 1st, 2017

Brattleboro Retreat approves strategic plan

By Pamela Berard

Responding to challenges facing mental health and addiction treatment providers nationwide, Brattleboro Retreat of Vermont has approved a three-year strategic...

October 1st, 2017

Crotched Mountain after-school program designed to engage students

By Phyllis Hanlon

This past July, Crotched Mountain School launch-ed a carefully thought out after-school program for its students, designed to engage them physically, emotionally, socially and...

October 1st, 2017

School emphasizes closeness, mentoring

By Catherine Robertson Souter

A fresh start can do wonders. For children with a history of behavioral or mental health issues, accumulated diagnoses can seem like a heavy weight to carry. The opportunity to...

October 1st, 2017

“Psychoeducational Assessment and Intervention for Ethnic Minority Children”

By James K Luiselli EdD ABPP BCBA-D

“Psychoeducational Assessment and Intervention for Ethnic Minority Children”

Edited by Scott L. Graves, Jr., and Jamilia J. Blake

American Psychological...

October 1st, 2017

“Innovative Investigations of Language in Autism Spectrum Disorder”

By Kerry Morrison, Psy.D

“Innovative Investigations of Language in Autism Spectrum Disorder”

Edited by Letitia R. Naigles

American Psychological Association

Washington, D.C.,...

October 1st, 2017

My view of our eclipse summer

By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.

It was the summer of the great solar eclipse, the first total eclipse of the sun visible in the United States since 1979 and the first to traverse the entire country in more...

August 18th, 2017

Demand exists for multicultural care

By Phyllis Hanlon

After Congress passed the Refugee Act of 1980, which created the Federal Refugee Resettlement Program, three million refugees came to this country. Additionally, 43.3 million...

August 18th, 2017

Disability benefits rate exceeds national average

By Janine Weisman

One New England state is not like the others when it comes to the percentage of their populations receiving benefits through the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI)...