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Kids’ mental health getting a boost in Connecticut
By Eileen Weber
Bill focuses on access, play issues
Connecticut’s recently passed Senate Bill 2 focuses on providing more access to mental...
988 Lifeline focuses on increasing awareness in second year
By Beth Negus Viveiros
Despite low public awareness, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline answered nearly five million texts, chats, and calls in its first year.
Launched in July 2022, the...
Task Force recommends anxiety screening for adults under 65
By Susan Gonsalves
Older population requires further review
In June, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force issued its final recommendation to support screening for...
Are psychologists more vulnerable to violence?
By Ami Albernaz
As legislation aimed at curbing the rights of transgender people has gained momentum, Sidney Trantham, Ph.D., a Brookline, Mass. psychologist who works with transgender and...
Future of telehealth coverage uncertain
By Beth Negus Viveiros
Rules differ state to state
Telehealth became the new normal for both mental health patients and providers during the pandemic. But as public health emergency...
Providers using more apps in treatment but with caution
By Eileen Weber
Privacy issues are common concern
Since the pandemic, the saying, `there’s an app for that,” is applying to more...
Vermont establishes mental health urgent care centers as alternatives to emergency departments
By Danielle Ray
Vermont is addressing the ever-growing mental health crisis with a forward-thinking idea –mental health urgent care centers across the state, including an inaugural one...
The doctor is in: Calling yourself a Dr.
By Ellen Anderson, Ph.D
What does it mean when a patient addresses you by your first name? Even when offering psychiatric help for the low price of five cents, Lucy (from the Peanuts comic strip)...
NE states consider legalizing Psilocybin
By Beth Negus Viveiros
Bills that could decriminalize psilocybin for therapeutic purposes are under consideration in several New England states.
Psilocybin is the primary psychoactive compound...
Vermont aims for passage of prescriptive authority bill in 2024
By Andrew Cromarty
Could this help the prescriber shortage?
In 2017, Connecticut sought to join New Mexico, Louisiana, Illinois, Iowa, Idaho, and Colorado as the seventh state to...