February 1st, 2017
By Pamela Berard
The Rhode Island Psychological Association 2017 legislative agenda will include a focus on telehealth services as well as the goal of improving the ability of the Board of...
February 1st, 2017
By Janine Weisman
Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) has moved on after abandoning plans to build a proposed 21-bed stepdown unit next to the Riverview Psychiatric Recovery Center in Augusta.
As...
February 1st, 2017
By Janine Weisman
The Maine Psychological Association’s (MePA) top legislative priority for 2017 can be found on page two of a consultant’s report studying reimbursement rates for mental...
February 1st, 2017
By Pamela Berard
William James College in Massachusetts announced its Multicultural and Veterans Mental Health Scholarships, aimed at increasing the number of individuals trained and committed...
February 1st, 2017
By Janine Weisman
Massachusetts ranked second after Hawaii as the healthiest overall state in the nation in the latest America’s Health Rankings Annual Report released in December...
February 1st, 2017
By Catherine Robertson Souter
In 2015, the United States belatedly joined the rest of the world in implementing the most updated version of the World Health Organization’s coding system for medical...
February 1st, 2017
By Rivkela Brodsky
Addiction Campuses, a company based in Brentwood, Tenn., offering comprehensive drug and alcohol treatment programs at facilities around the country has opened its fourth...
February 1st, 2017
By Rivkela Brodsky
In November 2016, the U.S. Surgeon General for the first time issued a report on alcohol, drugs, and health – calling addiction, “one of America’s most pressing public...
February 1st, 2017
By Catherine Robertson Souter
After nearly 17 years under the same leadership, the American Psychological Foundation (APF) recently announced that Terence M. Keane, Ph.D, was elected to assume the...
February 1st, 2017
By James K Luiselli EdD ABPP BCBA-D
“A Practitioner’s Guide to Telemental Health: How to Conduct Legal, Ethical, and Evidence-Based Telepractice”
By David D. Luxton, Eve-Lynn Nelson, and Marlene M....
