Articles, Leading Stories
Surgeon General report: A call to action on addiction
By Rivkela Brodsky
In November 2016, the U.S. Surgeon General for the first time issued a report on alcohol, drugs, and health – calling addiction, “one of America’s most pressing public...
APF names Terence Keane, Ph.D., to top post
By Catherine Robertson Souter
After nearly 17 years under the same leadership, the American Psychological Foundation (APF) recently announced that Terence M. Keane, Ph.D, was elected to assume the...
Election prompts anxiety, confusion
By Phyllis Hanlon
In the wake of what many print, broadcast and social media outlets have called one of the “most divisive” political campaigns in recent memory, a mixture of emotions...
APA president-elect named
By Janine Weisman
Near the end of the monthly psychology training committee meeting at Boston Children’s Hospital last November, Jessica Henderson Daniel, Ph.D., ABPP, gave the floor to a...
Prescriptive authority among VPA legislative initiatives
By Rivkela Brodsky
The Vermont Psychological Association has three main areas of focus for the 2017 state legislative session: healthcare reform, insurance coverage of telehealth services and...
New Hampshire prepares bills for filing
By Catherine Robertson Souter
While other New England states may have their legislative agenda set for the coming year, things work slightly differently in New Hampshire.
With the third largest...
Budget climate defines legislative agenda
By Janine Weisman
With a projected $1.3 billion deficit in the fiscal 2018 state budget, Connecticut lawmakers will again face the prospect of raising taxes and fees and cutting services when...
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...