Columnists
Prescription authority comes with risks, uncertainties
By Edward Stern J.D.
Forces are in the health care system changing its landscape. The greatest changes seem to revolve around the payments of insurance, including who will provide particular...
Ambushed by insight
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
Metaphors abound in everyday speech but psychologists use them mindfully, most often to clarify something that we think is important for our audience to remember. We like to...
Bridges
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
When our hospital closed in April, we lost our internship and, with it, a long list of practices, rituals and ceremonies that had come to mark the seasons of a year dedicated...
The risks of restraint and seclusion
By Edward Stern J.D.
Last month, New England Psychologist looked at the use of restraint and seclusion. In this installment, the column examines some of the risks of these methods to both...
Use of restraint, seclusion is controversial, Part 1
By Edward Stern J.D.
The first of a two-part column.
When the justice and mental health systems believe that someone is a risk to himself/herself or a threat to others, the courts...
Half-finished notebooks
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
At morning rounds the other day while waiting for something important to record in my recycled, spiral-bound notebook, curiosity nudged me to flip through the filled front...
Getting to know you
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
The woman glided into the room on tiptoes, trepidation and confidence contending for control of her gait, her tortured smile reflecting some inner struggle about which we knew...
In wake of suicides, anti-bullying bill passed
By Edward Stern J.D.
Bullying. The word itself conjures up images of uneven relationships and unfair advantages. The differentiation or inequality is primarily in size, power and strength....
Re-thinking the right stuff
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
The last time I changed jobs I thought I had found the best way to sort, pack and move important stuff from my old workplace to the new office. That was a time of volatility in...
Recall woes hit psychologists
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
The big news over the past few months has been the recall of thousands of cars by the world’s largest auto manufacturer. First it was an accelerator problem, and then it was...