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March 30th, 2022

Schizophrenia: What’s in a name?

By Eileen Weber

For schizophrenia, quite a bit
Should schizophrenia undergo a name change? For many, the answer is...

March 29th, 2022

State of Mental Health in America report highlights trends about access, disparity

By Susan Gonsalves

Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, more than half of the adults with mental illness (27 million) and 60...

February 5th, 2022

Training gives police and first responders tools to deal with people with mental illness

By Catherine Robertson Souter

New Hampshire has seen more than its share of officer-related shootings. In December, the Concord Monitor reported the results of an analysis on police shootings over...

February 4th, 2022

Mental Health Courts: A ‘humane mechanism’ for people with mental illness

By Phyllis Hanlon

In the late 1980s, Janet Reno, then state attorney for Miami Dade County, Florida, founded the first drug...

August 20th, 2021

MHA reports on state of mental health in America

By Phyllis Hanlon

Since 2014, Mental Health America (MHA) has collected and published data related to the status of mental...

August 20th, 2021

Proposed law would allow for mandated outpatient treatment

By Catherine Robertson Souter

Massachusetts is one of only three states, along with Connecticut and Maryland, that does not allow...

July 16th, 2020

Bookmarking a life

By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.

When I was a young psychologist just starting my second job, someone gave me an office and a title that were bigger than I needed, and like hand-me-down clothes, both gave me...

March 23rd, 2020

Living in three worlds

By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.

January 4th, 2020

Navigating layers of change

By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.

November 4th, 2019

Maine and Conn. make top 10 list for best mental health care

By Janine Weisman