March 1st, 2012
By Jennifer E Chase
A spate of suicide prevention programs have cropped up on U.S. college and university campuses since the end of 2011, thanks to a nationwide grant from the Substance Abuse and...
March 1st, 2012
By Phyllis Hanlon
In 2008, the Bureau of Behavioral Health within the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) analyzed the state’s mental health system and presented its findings and...
March 1st, 2012
By Catherine Robertson Souter
Anthropologist Margaret Mead once said, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever...
March 1st, 2012
By Paul Efthim PhD
“Fairbairn’s Object Relations Theory in the Clinical Setting”
By David P. Celani
Columbia University Press
New York, N.Y. 2010
Despite its...
March 1st, 2012
By James K Luiselli EdD ABPP BCBA-D
“How to Find Mental Health Care for Your Child”
By Ellen B. Braaten, Ph.D.
American Psychological Association
Washington, D.C., 2011
Accessible...
March 1st, 2012
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
In the course of my career as a psychologist, I have witnessed the closing of many of the hospitals but I have never seen a new one open. That is about to change with the...
February 1st, 2012
By Phyllis Hanlon
Fourteen years ago, Rep. Kay Khan (D-Newton) filed a bill (H.1419) intended to prevent tragedies because of medication non-compliance and inadequate treatment for mental health...
February 1st, 2012
By Pamela Berard
Legislature ponders plan
Since flooding from Tropical Storm Irene forced the closure of the 54-bed Vermont State Hospital (VHS) last August, community care facilities...
February 1st, 2012
By Jennifer E Chase
Massachusetts is worst hit
Of the changes to healthcare budgets across the country since 2009, New England is among the regions most in flux, according to a report...
February 1st, 2012
By Phyllis Hanlon
When Judson Brewer, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry and medical director at the Yale Therapeutic Neuroscience Clinic began meditating 13 years ago, he hoped to...
