New England Psychologist
Residential schools: Helping students get back on track
By Phyllis Hanlon
Residential, or boarding, schools serve different populations and have different goals. Schools that address behavioral issues in children admit students with a variety of diagnoses. Those diagnoses include a number of psychological and emotional issues that range from anxiety, mood and eating disorders, attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) to fire setting, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other behavioral problems. In recent years, more children have presented with a diagnosis on the autism spectrum. According to Valentina M. Parchin, Ph.D, director of education for the Adelbrook Learning Center in East Hartford, Connecticut, this agency has moved [More]
Leading Stories
- 500 million, but the need still grows
- To overcome the mental health bias, clinicians must serve as examples
- Embracing the fall
- Residential schools: Helping students get back on track
- Latham Centers offers unique program for kids with Prader-Willi Syndrome
- Benton Center retrofitted for psychiatric patients
- Behavior analysts must be licensed in Connecticut
- Collaboration results in enrichment program for kids
- Youth Villages closes residential program for girls in Mass.
- Isolation and LGBTQ youth: Social, psychological and financial implications
Featured Book Review
Book on play is research-based, practical
By New England Psychologist Staff
In “Play and Creativity in Psychotherapy,” Terry Marks-Tarlow, Marion Solomon, and Daniel J. Siegel demonstrate that play can have a significant role in the healing process. Taking the time to relearn how to play as an adult can help build resilience, creativity, and spontaneity for both clients and therapists. As children, it is natural to explore and use play as a way of learning. But as adults, we are supposed to be more serious. We are often overly concerned with how we appear to others, and too often move through life with the logical parts of our brains. Fortunately, it [More]