Articles, Leading Stories
Fourth recovery high school planned for Massachusetts
By Jennifer E Chase
Hearing the concerns of his community, Brockton, Mass. superintendent Matthew Malone, Ph.D., is supporting a regional initiative to bring a high school for students with...
Q&A: Self destructive behavior analyzed
By Catherine Robertson Souter
Scars, burn marks, and teens who wear long-sleeved shirts in 90 degree weather – what do they have in common? Hint, it’s a behavior that is reported by one support...
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...