Articles, Columnists
Getting your bearings with difficult clients
By Mitch Abblett Ph.D.
Valuing instead of evaluating your work
I was in graduate school when I happened upon a flier for a literary panel discussion featuring some lions of the literary...
EMDR: Research prompts acceptance
By Phyllis Hanlon
In 1987, Francine Shapiro, Ph.D., senior research fellow emeritus at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, Calif., director of the EMDR Institute and founder of the EMDR...
Reparative therapy banned in California
By Pamela Berard
California became the first state to ban licensed mental health professionals from engaging in sexual orientation change efforts (often called reparative or conversion therapy)...
DOD contracts with Magellan for counseling services
By Phyllis Hanlon
Magellan Health Services Inc. announced that as of Aug. 15 its subsidiary, Magellan Health Behavioral Health Inc., became one of several vendors to administer the Military...
VA expands support for veterans’ research, education
By Phyllis Hanlon
The wars, both recent and past, have been the cause of significant visible and invisible injuries to military personnel serving in these conflicts. As the number of returning...
Flood may have silver lining
By Catherine Robertson Souter
When Hurricane Irene tore through Vermont in the summer of 2011, it took with it the 120-year-old state hospital in Waterbury. The 52 beds lost in the flooding caused by the...
Ballot questions could impact problem gambling treatment
By Janine Weisman
Bob Breen, Ph.D., is going to vote no on Rhode Island’s statewide Questions 1 and 2 on Nov. 6. But the licensed clinical psychologist and director of Rhode Island...
Program helps service professionals
By Pamela Berard
In just three years, the Brattleboro Retreat Uniformed Service Program (USP) in Vermont has helped about 1,200 uniformed service professionals deal with issues including...
Diagnosis changes psychologist’s work, life
By Catherine Robertson Souter
Ten years ago, Michael McManmon’s life changed drastically. When the founder of a post-secondary college and employment program for young adults with learning differences was...
A presidential psychopath?
By Janine Weisman
Research has suggested politicians, especially U.S. presidents, are narcissists. But are they psychopaths too?
Successful ones share a boldness associated with...