Articles, Leading Stories

August 21st, 2013

New Vermont collaboration integrates care management

By Jo Kadlecek

It used to be that someone with a heart condition needed a different health care provider if they also struggled with clinical depression.

A new collaboration in Vermont...

August 21st, 2013

Reimbursement, client eligibility issues cause confusion

By Phyllis Hanlon

Issues regarding reimbursement have long plagued psychologists. Recently, some Massachusetts providers have become frustrated over the complex rules regarding “crossover”...

August 21st, 2013

Study highlights prevalence of children with mental disorders

By Janine Weisman

Up to one in five U.S. children experience a mental disorder, finds a new U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report reviewing various federal efforts tracking...

August 21st, 2013

New commissioner puts focus on system transformation

By Catherine Robertson Souter

Since 2011, after Tropical Storm Irene closed the Vermont State Hospital, the state’s mental health care system has undergone a massive re-structuring. The administration of...

August 21st, 2013

Postpartum depression studied in ‘invisible sexual minority’ women

By Catherine Robertson Souter

The average rate of postpartum depression in women in this country is around 13 percent. But, while studies have shown how postpartum depression or PPD, affects women from a...

August 21st, 2013

Genetics & counseling: a sensible approach

By Phyllis Hanlon

Angelina Jolie’s surprise announcement of her prophylactic mastectomy and hysterectomy has shined a spotlight on genetic testing. Like this celebrity, more people with family...

August 21st, 2013

Butler to open new Patient Care Center

By Janine Weisman

Rhode Island’s largest psychiatric hospital will add 26 new adult inpatient beds to its capacity with the scheduled October 1 opening of a new 49,000 square-foot Patient Care...

August 21st, 2013

Finding happiness in the psychology aisle

By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.

Don’t Roll Your Eyes when you see what’s coming but every nine years or so, I use this column to report on a visit to my...

July 1st, 2013

“Enduring” trauma: long-term effects unknown

By Phyllis Hanlon

Imagine being held captive for just one hour. Now compound that intense fear and terror by 10 years, as in the case of the three recently rescued women in Cleveland. The...

July 1st, 2013

Legislation seeks to curb treatment interruption

By Pamela Berard

Proposed Massachusetts legislation would allow behavioral health patients to continue receiving the same care when insurance companies do not renew provider...

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