Articles, Leading Stories
Former hotel becomes recovery center
By Phyllis Hanlon
On October 17, Recovery Centers of America (RCA), based in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, opened a 48-bed drug and rehabilitation facility in the former Wachusett Village Inn...
Internship program eliminated
By Pamela Berard
The Connecticut Psychological Association is asking the state Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) to reconsider its decision to eliminate the Connecticut...
Jane Tillman, Ph.D., ABPP, explores impact of client suicides
By Catherine Robertson Souter
When someone dies by a person’s own hand, the loss deeply affects each of those closest to him or her. What may often be missed, however, is how that loss also affects the...
Clinicians help adults with ADHD
By Phyllis Hanlon
Attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactive disorder is most often associated with young children and adolescents. But symptoms that manifest in childhood...
MPA sets legislative agenda
By Janine Weisman
Anti-clawback legislation, telehealth parity and protecting continuity of care will be the top three priorities for the Massachusetts Psychological Association when the next...
Initiative brings services to young children with trauma
By Pamela Berard
A new grant will help bridge a gap for services to very young children in Connecticut suffering from exposure to trauma.
The Child Health and Development Institute...
Program helps military families cope with alcohol abuse
By Rivkela Brodsky
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Mass., are in year three of a four-year grant to study and provide military couples with alcohol and...
Diabetes: Research shows increased risk for mental health issues
By Phyllis Hanlon
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that in 2014, diabetes affected approximately 29.1 million people or 9.3 percent of the United States...
Psychologist helps families cope with childhood illnesses
By Catherine Robertson Souter
When a child has medical issues complicated by psychological ones, a family may find themselves with limited skills to cope with an escalating situation. A serious affliction...
Treating responders: a shift in technique
By Phyllis Hanlon
The devastation that occurred on 9/11 shook the entire world. But since that time, numerous other traumatic events – the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the San...