Leading Stories

September 7th, 2024

Fake news: Misinformation has its own psychology

By Eileen Weber

Over the past several years, misinformation—particularly political misinformation—has been running rampant on social media. Misinformation and disinformation are not the...

September 7th, 2024

Killingly, CT students will finally get much-needed mental health services

By Danielle Ray

Students in the Killingly Public Schools (KPS) district will now have access to mental health resources after the lack of them drew statewide and national attention and...

September 7th, 2024

When we learned to listen: The legacy of Elvin Semrad

By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.

Over more than three decades of writing this column, from time to time, I have quoted Dr. Elvin Semrad whom I briefly described as “the late Boston psychoanalyst.” I...

September 2nd, 2024

Medication treatment for opioid disorders limited at outpatient facilities

By Beth Negus Viveiros

Only 34% of outpatient community mental health treatment facilities in 20 states—including four in New...

July 30th, 2024

‘Man Therapy’ comes to Vermont

By Eileen Weber

According to the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, about 80% of suicide deaths in the U.S....

July 29th, 2024

Some things I learned along the way

By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.

If it’s true that the biggest surprise you’ll ever have is to realize that you’ve grown old, then the second biggest is to believe that you have learned something useful...

July 11th, 2024

Disparities between mental, medical use reimbursements highlighted

By Beth Negus Viveiros

RTI International conducts research
A new study highlights the disparity in out-of-network use and...

July 5th, 2024

Is telehealth here to stay?

By Andrew Cromarty

Accessibility for patients is benefit
Now that mask mandates and social distancing are a thing of...

July 5th, 2024

Revisiting AI

By John Grohol, Psy.D.

Just a year ago, I wrote about the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence (A.I.) and its potential to help in mental health treatment. The field continues to suffer from a...

July 5th, 2024

InStride Health gets $30M investment

By Catherine Robertson Souter

One area of focus is Maine
Two years after its launch, startup pediatric mental health company,...