Articles, Leading Stories
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.,...