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Federal government tries again to ensure insurers pay for mental health care
By New England Psychologist Staff
Rule will take effect 60 days after announcement
The Biden administration announced in early September 2024 the finalization of a significant new regulation aimed at...
Study: College students feel anxious about presidential election
By Susan Gonsalves
Survey conducted by virtual provider
Students at colleges and universities across the United States are feeling significant stress and anxiety about the upcoming...
Examining the relationship between politics and psychology
By Phyllis Hanlon
Political psychologists combine disciplines
In the run-up to the presidential election in November, the interdisciplinary field of political psychology, a combination...
Mass. debuts country’s first social prescribing program: Arts and culture participation is focus
By Beth Negus Viveiros
Massachusetts recently launched the first statewide arts prescription solution in the United States, to prescribe arts and culture participation to individuals with a range of...
Maine to expand crisis centers
By Danielle Ray
The Living Room Crisis Center (LRCC) in Portland was designed to be warm and welcoming with couches, armchairs, and a skylight greeting people when they arrive.
Private...
Behavioral health care funds to be released in Mass.
By Eileen Weber
Money meant to address staff shortages
Last year, Massachusetts set up a behavioral health fund amounting to $192 million, the remainder of $400 million from the...
Maine launches state’s first Child ACT program
By Beth Negus Viveiros
Services provided for at-risk youth and families
Sweetser has introduced Maine’s first Child Assertive Community Treatment program (Child ACT) to offer mental health...
Is Massachusetts getting closer to an AOT law?
By Catherine Robertson Souter
Support in CT for measure is...
Fake news: Misinformation has its own psychology
By Eileen Weber
Over the past several years, misinformation—particularly political misinformation—has been running rampant on social media. Misinformation and disinformation are not the...
Killingly, CT students will finally get much-needed mental health services
By Danielle Ray
Students in the Killingly Public Schools (KPS) district will now have access to mental health resources after the lack of them drew statewide and national attention and...