Articles, Leading Stories

Insurance fight for eating disorder patients continues

By Jennifer E Chase

Some New England companies support population

For 10 years, James Greenblatt, M.D. has fought a near-daily occupational hazard. It has followed him from his last job...

New DSM-5 highlights presented

By Jennifer E Chase

In correspondence with New England Psychologist, the DSM-5 Task Force chair David J. Kupfer, M.D., confirmed and elaborated on the following highlights of what practitioners...

Changing times shape the real DSM-5

By Jennifer E Chase

Considered the bible of psychiatric disorders, practitioners know the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is published by the American Psychiatric...

Petition concerns proposed manual changes

By Catherine Robertson Souter

First published in 1952, the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” is used throughout the U.S. and in many places around the world, in the diagnosis of...

New AAP guidelines recommend collaboration

By Pamela Berard

New American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) guidelines recommend primary care physicians initiate an evaluation/treatment for ADHD for children ages four to 18 who present with...

Grant focuses on housing, health needs

By Janine Weisman

The Providence Center has received a $1.5 million federal grant to work with housing providers and homeless advocates to secure access to behavioral and primary health care...

Cap recommended on addiction treatment

By Pamela Berard

Maine state budget task force recommended a two-year MaineCare limit on Suboxone – a replacement drug used for the treatment of opiate addiction – as part of an effort to...

Program faced possible closure

By Phyllis Hanlon

On Nov. 1, Milestone Foundation, a detoxification program for alcoholics and substance abusers in Portland, Maine, faced possible closure because of perceived non-compliance...

Sleep habits at heart of psychologist’s work

By Catherine Robertson Souter

Ask anyone if they get enough sleep at night and most will say, “No way.” Then ask why not. Full schedules, demanding jobs, social media, television…it all gets in...