Articles, Leading Stories
APA consumer guide promotes parity awareness
By Janine Weisman
Four percent of Americans know there is a federal mental health parity law that requires insurance coverage of services for mental health and substance use disorders comparable...
Revamp to improve mental health area
By Catherine Robertson Souter
Natural light streams through a skylight. A dedicated shower and bathroom provides privacy. Two new safe rooms, with the ability to “swing” two more, provide a refuge from...
Assumption College promotes collaborative research
By Phyllis Hanlon
Faculty/student research has been a long-standing practice at Assumption College in Worcester, Mass.. But during the last five to eight years the institution has increased its...
Report: Pediatricians can play crucial role
By Pamela Berard
Pediatricians can play a key role in helping to identify mental health issues in new mothers, according to a report released by the Child Health and Development Institute...
Psychologist looks at both sides of love
By Catherine Robertson Souter
In recognition of the month-long celebration of love that is February, we spoke with K. Daniel O’Leary, Ph.D., distinguished professor of clinical psychology at Stony Brook...
APA ethics under investigation
By Phyllis Hanlon
New York Times reporter James Risen’s new book, “Pay Any Price: Greed, Power and Endless War,” discloses the hidden costs of war on terror, shameful governmental...
R.I. tracking and treating its chronically homeless
By Janine Weisman
The numbers of homeless people in Rhode Island did what everyone hoped when volunteers fanned out across the state one night in January 2014 to count how many people were...
Hospital expands to meet needs
By Rivkela Brodsky
An increase in behavioral health patients staying more than 24 hours in Mid Coast Hospital’s emergency room has prompted the company to expand in two ways.
The...
R.I. looks to fix mental health system
By Janine Weisman
Is Rhode Island’s public mental health system working? The answer was a resounding no from the crowd that filled Rhode Island College’s Sapinsley Hall for a forum on the...
Sandy Hook parents give feedback
By Pamela Berard
During testimony to the Sandy Hook Advisory Commission, parents of children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings highlighted the need for trauma-trained mental...