Leading Stories, Practical Practice

May 2nd, 2022

Good customer service benefits patients and practitioner

By Catherine Robertson Souter

The term “customer service” brings to mind smiling hotel clerks welcoming guests, or a helpful sales associate offering to “grab you a different size”...

April 1st, 2022

Psychologist shortage: Demand exceeds supply

By Phyllis Hanlon

A July 2020 Health Tracking Poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) found that four in 10 adults...

April 1st, 2022

Telehealth coverage rolls back across United States

By Eileen Weber

New England tries to hang on
If there was an upside to the pandemic, it was telehealth. For many...

April 1st, 2022

Vermont aims to ‘stop the bleeding’

By Phyllis Hanlon

Vermont is experiencing a serious staffing shortage, according to January data, which showed a 58.8 percent staffing vacancy rate, an increase from pre-pandemic...

March 31st, 2022

Hampstead Hospital acquisition to enhance state’s mental health system

By Catherine Robertson Souter

No plans in place to expand footprint
Mental health care in New Hampshire has had some major...

March 31st, 2022

Report highlights need for more diversity in health care system

By Danielle Ray

The Mental Health Association of Rhode Island (MHARI) recently released a 34-page report overseen by Ernestine Jennings, Ph.D., that shines a light on a relevant and timely...

March 30th, 2022

Dealing with ongoing stress

By Catherine Robertson Souter

How psychologists can help patients and themselves

Remember the week everything shut down? As we approach the two-year anniversary of the designation of...

March 30th, 2022

Schizophrenia: What’s in a name?

By Eileen Weber

For schizophrenia, quite a bit
Should schizophrenia undergo a name change? For many, the answer is...

February 5th, 2022

Training gives police and first responders tools to deal with people with mental illness

By Catherine Robertson Souter

New Hampshire has seen more than its share of officer-related shootings. In December, the Concord Monitor reported the results of an analysis on police shootings over...

February 4th, 2022

Mental Health Courts: A ‘humane mechanism’ for people with mental illness

By Phyllis Hanlon

In the late 1980s, Janet Reno, then state attorney for Miami Dade County, Florida, founded the first drug...