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Survey by digital platform shows college kids worry about mental health, finances
By Susan Gonsalves
At the start of the spring semester, a nationwide survey of 1,200 college students cited their own mental health challenges as the greatest cause of stress.
The survey...
Frank & ChatGPT: My digital therapists then & now
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
Thirty years ago in my first year of writing this column, I described my encounter with Frank, a self-styled computerized therapist who lived on a floppy disk that I bought in...
Libraries offer books and mental health resources
By Phyllis Hanlon
The Public Libraries in the United States Survey: Fiscal Year 2012 (the most recent available) reports that 1.5 billion people visited the library in person and more than 92.6...
The burden of positive thinking
By Ellen Anderson, Ph.D
February was “Red Dress Month,” a campaign from the American Heart Association to promote awareness of heart disease in women. Much like the “pink ribbon” campaign for...
Headway made, challenges continue in Mass. ER boarding crisis
By Christina P. O'Neill
Despite the passage of a state law in 2021 to address the psychiatric patient ‘boarding’ problem in the state’s hospital emergency rooms, some patients wait more than a...
Baker administration’s ‘roadmap’ seeing some benefits
By Danielle Ray
More than two dozen mental health services centers across the state have been designated Community Behavioral Health Centers (CBHC) as part of former governor Charlie Baker’s...