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The League School’s neurodiversity project relies on community, business partnerships
By Eileen Weber
Career Learning Center in the works Neurodiverse students display behaviors associated with autism...
NY ban on corporal punishment sparks awareness of practice
By Ami Albernaz
In October, New York became just the fourth U.S. state to outlaw corporal punishment in private schools,...
Cartwheel receives $20 million for school mental health
By Eileen Weber
Company provides quick access to telehealth care
It should be no surprise that the mental health of children and adolescents was hit hard by the pandemic. But...
Poll: Less than half of Gen Z Americans are thriving
By Susan Gonsalves
More mental health struggles reported Less than half (47 percent) of Gen Z Americans are thriving in...
Here’s to what 2024 holds
By John Grohol, Psy.D.
With another passing year, I look forward to what 2024 brings—especially because 2023 has been something else.
We’ve seen the economy struggle and incomes shrink....
‘Stress in America’ survey shows adults have collective trauma
By Susan Gonsalves
Data from the most recent “Stress in America,” survey shows that people of all ages are still...
NH child advocate lobbies for lawmakers to rethink abuse, neglect placements
By Eileen Weber
Out- of-state residences would be last resort Children in abuse and neglect cases are typically placed in...
Proposed legislation would ban aversive therapy in Massachusetts
By New England Psychologist Staff
Judge Rotenberg Center uses, defends practice Opponents of the use of electric shock therapy to treat...
Judge Rotenberg Center is last in U.S. to use electric shock therapy
By Beth Negus Viveiros
Graduated electronic decelerator gets mixed reviews Some families of residents at the Judge Rotenberg...
On growing old gracefully – or not
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
As I sit at my desk in a too quiet house, I am thinking about my wife who is spending the day with a friend on a senior citizens’ bus trip to view the New England countryside...