Articles
Suicide prevention hotline launched across nation
By Andrew Cromarty
On July 16, the 988, the new three-digit national suicide prevention hotline launched in New England and across the nation. With mental health crises becoming increasingly...
Surreal Alaska
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
The world is on the move again. With COVID under better control and most people just tired of being confined, airports are crowded, flights are delayed and cruise ships are...
Research: Societal change will need both policy and behavioral support
By Christina P. O'Neill
Social change may depend on the relationship between beneficial behaviors (bottom-up) and social policies (top down), according to research from the University of Maine,...
Mobile medical unit used to address mental health issues in Rhode Island
By Danielle Ray
CODAC Behavioral Healthcare is revolutionizing patient care with its mobile medical unit, epitomizing the definition of meeting people where they are.
“We address all...
Believers in common animal ancestor more likely to be inclusive of humans
By Christina P. O'Neill
Belief in human evolution leads to more connectedness with groups different from one’s own, leading to less prejudicial attitudes, researchers at University of Massachusetts...
Caregivers for multiple myeloma patients have psychological distress
By Andrew Cromarty
A new study published in “Blood Advances” reveals that caregivers for patients with multiple myeloma may experience higher levels of depression and anxiety than the...
Remote program for college students goes beyond crisis help to recovery
By Christina P. O'Neill
In its upending of everyday life, the COVID epidemic has also given the therapy community at the Stockbridge, Mass.-based Austin Riggs Center an unlikely catalyst to create an...
Massachusetts bills, hotline focus on maternal mental health
By Eileen Weber
Earlier this year, Massachusetts legislators proposed two maternal mental health bills known as H.4740 and H.4741. The bills were passed by the House and sent to the Senate for...
Report on firearm deaths in Maine show many are suicides
By Andrew Cromarty
More than 85 percent of all firearm deaths in 2020 in the state of Maine were suicides, according to a report submitted by the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention...