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March 29th, 2022

State of Mental Health in America report highlights trends about access, disparity

By Susan Gonsalves

Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, more than half of the adults with mental illness (27 million) and 60...

March 29th, 2022

Mental health in schools subject of new bills

By Andrew Cromarty

In the last year, students nationwide have struggled to adjust to the return to classrooms while navigating the enduring stress of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a report...

March 29th, 2022

When memory fails

By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.

Before I retired almost seven years ago, a friend who had already left the nine to five daily routine told me that one nice thing about retirement is that you have more time to...

March 29th, 2022

Child psychology emerges as top concentration

By Catherine Robertson Souter

Forensic and neuropsychology are other popular choices
Even before the pandemic, there were reports...

February 5th, 2022

Training gives police and first responders tools to deal with people with mental illness

By Catherine Robertson Souter

New Hampshire has seen more than its share of officer-related shootings. In December, the Concord Monitor reported the results of an analysis on police shootings over...

February 4th, 2022

Mental Health Courts: A ‘humane mechanism’ for people with mental illness

By Phyllis Hanlon

In the late 1980s, Janet Reno, then state attorney for Miami Dade County, Florida, founded the first drug...

February 3rd, 2022

Amazing Grace

By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.

Where would we be without grace? This is not the kind of question you would expect to find in a psychology publication, but that, I believe, is a blind spot in the view many...

February 3rd, 2022

Is it a psychologist’s job to address false beliefs?

By Catherine Robertson Souter

With the massive amount of disinformation floating around, from political to medical, most therapists...

January 9th, 2022

$5 million grant to expand mental health services at Wheeler clinics

By New England Psychologist Staff

The pandemic has had a profound effect on mental health.
To help address some of that impact,...

January 9th, 2022

Spurwink’s ShifaME helps refugees, immigrants through mental health care, education

By Eileen Weber

Editor’s note: three years ago, New England Psychologist featured a story about Spurwink Services in Maine implementing the SHifaME program, based on Trauma Systems...