Articles, Leading Stories

May 1st, 2010

Sex addiction: bona fide condition or excuse for bad behavior?

By Ami Albernaz

It’s often helpful to have a celebrity spokesperson for a disorder: Doug Flutie for autism; Patty Duke for bipolar disorder. Yet when it comes to sex addiction, the star...

May 1st, 2010

The changing role of the hospital-based psychologist

By Phyllis Hanlon

While incidence of mental health-related hospitalizations hasn’t diminished, the model of inpatient care is shifting. Shrinking budgets, bed elimination and community-based...

May 1st, 2010

Children’s groups part ways in philosophical rift

By Nan Shnitzler

The Harvard-affiliated Judge Baker Children’s Center and the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood have parted ways in a Rashomon-like saga that has left members of both...

May 1st, 2010

Program gives chance at healthy life

By Jennifer E Chase

Acadia Hospital in Maine is improving the odds for people who may develop psychosis through a program wholly dedicated to early detection.

The Aware program’s mission...

May 1st, 2010

VSH denied recertification – again

By Phyllis Hanlon

Since 2003, Vermont State Hospital (VSH) has lost, regained and once again lost its certification. In March, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) denied VSH’s...

May 1st, 2010

New scale created to measure anxiety

By Elinor Nelson

There is no shortage of self-report questionnaires to measure anxiety, but Mark Zimmerman, M.D. and his colleagues at Rhode Island Hospital and Alpert Medical School of Brown...

May 1st, 2010

Psych hospital limitations under Medicare to be eliminated

By Phyllis Hanlon

The passage of the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 has paved the way for other types of reform related to behavioral...

May 1st, 2010

Manual changes provoke debate

By Ami Albernaz

For the past few years, proposed revisions to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) have been scrutinized and their merits debated by mental health...

May 1st, 2010

Networking sites raise ethical questions

By Pamela Berard

Social networking Web sites like Facebook are ubiquitous especially among younger generations who’ve grown up with technology. But with these sites, medical professionals...

May 1st, 2010

Non-profit group shares terrorism research

By Catherine Robertson Souter

When a former student pitched the idea of a non-profit organization to promote the interdisciplinary and international sharing of terrorism research, Tali K. Walters, Ph.D.,...