June 1st, 2012
By Catherine Robertson Souter
Across the country, the practice of applied behavior analysis (ABA) has exploded. According to Steve Woolf, Ph.D., BCBA-D, president of the Massachusetts Association for...
June 1st, 2012
By Pamela Berard
Maine and Rhode Island were two of five states to receive $600,000 in federal funding to help support the electronic sharing of health records among behavioral health and...
June 1st, 2012
By Jennifer E Chase
Boston schools are bolstering the psychological services they offer students by enlisting in private therapists – namely from Boston’s The Home for Little Wanderers – to...
June 1st, 2012
By Phyllis Hanlon
The recent uproar over the use of “scream rooms” at the Farm Hill Elementary School in Middletown, Conn. has sparked a conversation about the use of seclusion and restraint...
June 1st, 2012
By Pamela Berard
Several Rhode Island agencies and advocates for the homeless drafted a plan that would emphasize long-term housing over temporary shelters.
In 2010, 95 percent of...
June 1st, 2012
By Catherine Robertson Souter
Psychologist, heal thyself…
A key component of the American Psychological Association’s code of ethics, self care is one of those widely accepted yet rarely enacted...
June 1st, 2012
By Phyllis Hanlon
Earlier this year, the American Psychological Association (APA) released findings from its 2011 survey Stress in America™: Our Health at Risk. In January, a distinguished...
June 1st, 2012
By Edward Stern J.D.
On Feb. 26, 2012 in Sanford, Florida, there was a confrontation between Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman. The result was the death of Trayvon Martin. With the exception of...
June 1st, 2012
By Janine Weisman
Over the past decade, Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology has seen its student body quadruple, the number of degree programs expand from one to 11 and its operating...
June 1st, 2012
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
The small room where the treatment team meets was crowded with hospital staff and representatives from the community where George would be going after his discharge. George...
