June 1st, 2013
By Paul Efthim PhD
“Body Shots: Hollywood and the Culture of Eating Disorders”
By Emily Fox-Kales
State University of New York Press
Albany, N.Y., 2011
Media...
June 1st, 2013
By James K Luiselli EdD ABPP BCBA-D
“The Science of Attorney Advocacy: How Courtroom Behavior Affects Jury Decision Making”
By Jessica D. Findley and Bruce D. Sales
American Psychological...
June 1st, 2013
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
I learned about the marathon bombings somewhere on the New Jersey Turnpike when our daughter, who lives and works in Boston, called to say that she was safe. It was an odd way...
May 1st, 2013
By Phyllis Hanlon
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) reports that approximately 5.6 to 8 million Americans 65 and older have mental health or substance use disorders; those figures are expected to...
May 1st, 2013
By Pamela Berard
After initial controversy, the practice of prohibiting smoking in inpatient psychiatric facilities has taken hold.
In decades past, many considered smoking one of the...
May 1st, 2013
By Janine Weisman
The patient brought to Cape Cod Hospital’s Emergency Center in Feb. 2011 with self-inflicted left wrist lacerations denied being suicidal. But after sutures and a behavioral...
May 1st, 2013
By Phyllis Hanlon
On March 1, the deadlocked debate on the economic future of the country resulted in approximately $85.4 billion in federal spending cuts. Known as the sequester, the funding...
May 1st, 2013
By Catherine Robertson Souter
A class action lawsuit against health insurance company Aetna has apparently been settled out of court. In December, it was announced that Aetna agreed to settle a class action...
May 1st, 2013
By Catherine Robertson Souter
While some psychologists are still dealing with the aftermath of changes to CPT codes in January, another, and much broader, code change deadline has been pushed back a...
May 1st, 2013
By Catherine Robertson Souter
The New York State Psychiatric Association (NYSPA), along with several patients and their families, has challenged UnitedHealth Group’s (also known as United Healthcare)...
