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December 1st, 2011

Reduced SSI checks means drop in aid for mentally ill

By Jennifer E Chase

After months of voicing frustration and taking legal action over proposed cuts to their Supplementary Security Income (SSI) in the fall, Rhode Island’s elderly and disabled...

December 1st, 2011

Study: Self-harm patients not receiving mental health evaluations

By Pamela Berard

About half of self-harm patients treated in hospital emergency rooms and discharged did not receive a mental health evaluation before being sent home, according to a recent...

December 1st, 2011

Farm provides alternative to typical residential facility

By Jennifer E Chase

Gould Farm in Western, Mass., believes its few hundred acres is the perfect place for learning to cope and live with mental illness. Located among the Bay State’s bucolic...

December 1st, 2011

Work with Asperger’s children highlighted

By Catherine Robertson Souter

For children with Asperger’s disorder, along with parents, educators and mental health professionals who work with them, establishing relationships can be difficult and...

December 1st, 2011

Psychologist wins Nobel Prize

By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.

When this year’s Nobel Prize winners were announced in October, there was a psychologist on the list. Sweden’s Tomas Tranströmer is not the first psychologist to win a...

December 1st, 2011

Functional Behavioral Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment

By James K Luiselli EdD ABPP BCBA-D

By Ennio Cipani and Kevin M. Schock

Springer Publishing Company, LLC

New York, NY, 2011

Resource ideal for university coursework

Reviewed by James...

November 1st, 2011

Deployment-related stress disorders on the increase

By Phyllis Hanlon

Few psychologists would challenge the notion that the ongoing Middle East conflicts are producing record numbers of behavioral health problems in military personnel. According...

November 1st, 2011

Health care reform offers options

By Nan Shnitzler

The federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act remains under legal attack even while its provisions begin to take effect. While there’s plenty of information about...

November 1st, 2011

Can medical students afford mental health treatment?

By Janine Weisman

Medical students experience higher rates of depression, burnout and other mental illnesses yet a new study shows insurance coverage offered by U.S. medical schools...

November 1st, 2011

Study: Drug does not reduce PTSD severity

By Pamela Berard

A recent study showed that a widely-prescribed medication within the Department of Veterans Affairs used in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder did not reduce...

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