Articles, Leading Stories
Report highlights need for more diversity in health care system
By Danielle Ray
The Mental Health Association of Rhode Island (MHARI) recently released a 34-page report overseen by Ernestine Jennings, Ph.D., that shines a light on a relevant and timely...
Dealing with ongoing stress
By Catherine Robertson Souter
How psychologists can help patients and themselves
Remember the week everything shut down? As we approach the two-year anniversary of the designation of...
Schizophrenia: What’s in a name?
By Eileen Weber
For schizophrenia, quite a bit
Should schizophrenia undergo a name change? For many, the answer is...
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...
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...
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...
Child psychology emerges as top concentration
By Catherine Robertson Souter
Forensic and neuropsychology are other popular choices
Even before the pandemic, there were reports...
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...
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...
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...