Articles, Leading Stories
Study: Young children benefit from CBT
By Susan Gonsalves
Children ages five to eight with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) can benefit from family-based cognitive behavioral therapy, according to a study from the Bradley Hasbro...
Jury’s still out on omission of bereavement exclusion
By Susan Gonsalves
One of the most controversial changes made last year was the removal of the “bereavement” exclusion from the major depressive disorder (MDD) diagnosis in...
Online tool helps dieters lose weight
By Susan Gonsalves
A Web-based commercial weight loss program that pairs financial incentives with social influence has shown positive results, according to a recent study conducted by Miriam...
Research looks at benefits of online game
By Susan Gonsalves
Age has an impact on the benefits people think they derive from playing the popular online game Bejeweled Blitz.
Susan Krauss Whitbourne Ph.D., a professor of psychology...
Study: Online tool effective
By Susan Gonsalves
Researchers at Yale University have developed a program to teach coping skills to alcohol and substance abuse patients. Lead author Kathleen Carroll, Ph.D., professor of...
Beyond the black box
By Susan Gonsalves
Benefits of early intervention highlighted
It’s time for everyone embedded in the behavioral health world to “move out of the treatment black box,” develop a...
Study uncovers disparity during stages of treatment
By Susan Gonsalves
A recent study published in Health Services Research tracking mental health care episodes found that blacks and Latinos are much less likely to initiate treatment. And whites...
Victims of sibling aggression suffer consequences
By Susan Gonsalves
Even one incident of sibling aggression causes mental distress among children and adolescents according to recently-published research in Pediatrics.
Study authors from...
Exercise program geared toward treatment reluctant veterans
By Susan Gonsalves
The Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital in Bedford, Mass. (Bedford VAMC) will offer an exercise program designed to engage and motivate veterans who shun traditional...
Program targets children’s needs
By Susan Gonsalves
A program to address emotional and behavioral issues in children has met with success in three Church Street School classrooms.
The interventionist initiative in Hamden,...