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CT makes recommendations to improve children’s behavioral health
By Eileen Weber
What came first, the increase in children’s mental health issues or the shortage in staff to help them?
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), anxiety,...
Harvard recruits influencers to share mental health information
By Beth Negus Viveiros
Harvard University is partnering with a team of TikTok and Instagram creators and influencers to engage the public in two-way conversations about mental health.
“It...
Youth trauma, staffing shortages impacting residential schools
By Phyllis Hanlon
Increased drug use also a factor
The American Psychological Association’s latest “Stress in America” survey indicated that respondents are suffering...
The League School’s neurodiversity project relies on community, business partnerships
By Eileen Weber
Career Learning Center in the works
Neurodiverse students display behaviors associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or other neurologically atypical...
Proposed legislation would ban aversive therapy in Massachusetts
By New England Psychologist Staff
Judge Rotenberg Center uses, defends practice
Opponents of the use of electric shock therapy to treat severe behavioral...
Judge Rotenberg Center is last in U.S. to use electric shock therapy
By Beth Negus Viveiros
Graduated electronic decelerator gets mixed reviews
Some families of residents at the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) in Canton, MA cite the graduated electronic...
New behavioral health hospital opens in Mass.
By Eileen Weber
Valley Springs Behavioral Health Hospital opened its doors late this summer to treat children, adolescent, and adult patients with addiction and other mental and behavioral...
Treating Long COVID mental health symptoms requires coordination
By Beth Negus Viveiros
Communication between mental health professionals and primary care providers (PCPs) is key to proper diagnosis and treatment of Long COVID mental health issues.
Because...
Postpartum psychosis: A complex mix of serious symptoms
By Phyllis Hanlon
Several risk factors cited
Amanda Brown struggled with infertility and suffered two miscarriages before she experienced a...
Research highlights health care inequity in Massachusetts
By Beth Negus Viveiros
Communities of color most impacted
Health care equity is a moral imperative and a new study reveals that it is a financial one as well.
The...