Articles, Leading Stories

December 1st, 2011

Young addicts need aid to change

By Janine Weisman

Young adults with severe addiction problems genuinely want to become clean and sober. They just don’t know how to do it, says a new study by the Center for Addiction Medicine...

December 1st, 2011

Reduced SSI checks means drop in aid for mentally ill

By Jennifer E Chase

After months of voicing frustration and taking legal action over proposed cuts to their Supplementary Security Income (SSI) in the fall, Rhode Island’s elderly and disabled...

December 1st, 2011

Study: Self-harm patients not receiving mental health evaluations

By Pamela Berard

About half of self-harm patients treated in hospital emergency rooms and discharged did not receive a mental health evaluation before being sent home, according to a recent...

December 1st, 2011

Farm provides alternative to typical residential facility

By Jennifer E Chase

Gould Farm in Western, Mass., believes its few hundred acres is the perfect place for learning to cope and live with mental illness. Located among the Bay State’s bucolic...

December 1st, 2011

Work with Asperger’s children highlighted

By Catherine Robertson Souter

For children with Asperger’s disorder, along with parents, educators and mental health professionals who work with them, establishing relationships can be difficult and...

November 1st, 2011

Deployment-related stress disorders on the increase

By Phyllis Hanlon

Few psychologists would challenge the notion that the ongoing Middle East conflicts are producing record numbers of behavioral health problems in military personnel. According...

November 1st, 2011

Health care reform offers options

By Nan Shnitzler

The federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act remains under legal attack even while its provisions begin to take effect. While there’s plenty of information about...

November 1st, 2011

Can medical students afford mental health treatment?

By Janine Weisman

Medical students experience higher rates of depression, burnout and other mental illnesses yet a new study shows insurance coverage offered by U.S. medical schools...

November 1st, 2011

Study: Drug does not reduce PTSD severity

By Pamela Berard

A recent study showed that a widely-prescribed medication within the Department of Veterans Affairs used in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder did not reduce...

November 1st, 2011

Change means MassHealth covers in-home and community services

By Catherine Robertson Souter

Over the past four years, the face of mental health care for lower income children has changed in Massachusetts.

In 2002, a class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of a...