August 21st, 2010
By Pamela Berard
In May, Vermont State Hospital joined a growing number of psychiatric facilities to ban smoking from its grounds.
The trend is divisive in the field. Those in favor of...
August 21st, 2010
By Nan Shnitzler
Direct mental health effects of the Gulf oil spill appear to be scarce in New England, but that doesn’t mean there is no psychological impact.
On an individual...
August 21st, 2010
By Phyllis Hanlon
With degree in hand and passion in their hearts, many newly graduated psychologists seek to launch their own businesses. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Occupational...
August 21st, 2010
By Ami Albernaz
As work continues on the newest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), still three years away, one of the sections that might see the...
August 21st, 2010
By Catherine Robertson Souter
Have you gone to a store to get mustard and come home with three bags of groceries…but no mustard?
When we are lying on our death beds, how many of us will slap...
July 24th, 2010
By Edward Stern J.D.
The first of a two-part column.
When the justice and mental health systems believe that someone is a risk to himself/herself or a threat to others, the courts...
July 1st, 2010
By Phyllis Hanlon
In June 2008, the British Broadcasting System (BBC) published a story about two adolescents in Spain undergoing treatment at the Child and Youth Mental Health Centre near...
July 1st, 2010
By Nan Shnitzler
Last November, the Vermont Department of Mental Health faced budget cuts in excess of $20 million for the 2011 fiscal year. When the legislature adjourned its session in the...
July 1st, 2010
By Phyllis Hanlon
Budget shortfalls are once again prompting staff and service cuts in the Green Mountain State. According to Nancy Rollins, associate commissioner for the Department of Health...
July 1st, 2010
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
At morning rounds the other day while waiting for something important to record in my recycled, spiral-bound notebook, curiosity nudged me to flip through the filled front...
