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April 1st, 2013

DSM-5 includes changes

By Pamela Berard

Psychologists are preparing for major changes in the fifth edition of the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” (DSM-5), to be published in...

April 1st, 2013

Telepsychology guidelines anticipated

By Janine Weisman

When patients initiate text messaging with Leslie A. Feil, Ph.D., she won’t text back on clinical issues but responds with a phone call instead. The Rhode Island...

April 1st, 2013

Proposed disclosure bill raises legal, practice questions

By Susan Gonsalves

Part of a young person’s development involves separation from parents and becoming independent. A bill introduced to Congress late last year would disrupt that natural order...

April 1st, 2013

GIC awards mental health contract to Beacon

By Catherine Robertson Souter

In a move that has drawn criticism from some local psychologists, the Group Insurance Commission (GIC), the Massachusetts agency that oversees insurance for state employees and...

April 1st, 2013

Study: parity provides relief for most vulnerable

By Howard Newman

We’re well aware of what “parity” – as it applies to mental health insurance coverage – is supposed to do. In a perfect world, parity mandates that insurance...

April 1st, 2013

Report: Mental health care for children lacking

By Greg Hitchcock

According to a government report, requested by U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), and Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Calif.), children’s mental health...

April 1st, 2013

Substance Use Disorder change gets mixed response

By Pamela Berard

One DSM-5 change that has divided mental health experts is the new category of Substance Use Disorder, which combines the DSM-IV Substance Abuse and Substance Dependence...

April 1st, 2013

DSM-5 to include binge eating disorder

By Phyllis Hanlon

When the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders fifth version (DSM-5) is released this May, binge eating disorder (BED) will have its own diagnostic code....

April 1st, 2013

Bill proposes funding for mental health ‘first aid’ training

By Jo Kadlecek

Kate Roberts, Ph.D., a certified school psychologist who has practices in two Massachusetts towns, has spent more than 25 years in schools and with families helping them...

April 1st, 2013

Task force member discusses health care reform efforts

By Catherine Robertson Souter

Issues with the health care system are coming to a head in this country. As health care delivery evolves in response to calls and mandates for far-reaching reform, concerns of...

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