Articles, Book Reviews
“Making Evidence-Based Psychological Treatments Work With Older Adults”
By James K Luiselli EdD ABPP BCBA-D
“Making Evidence-Based Psychological Treatments Work With Older Adults”
Edited by Forrest Scogin and Avani Shah
American Psychological...
Energy psychologists use variety of integrative therapies
By Phyllis Hanlon
In the mid-1980s when psychologist Roger Callahan, Ph.D., and psychiatrist John Diamond, M.D., formulated the foundations for energy psychology, few mental health professionals...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....