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April 30th, 2025

Mental health screenings key in ME’s ‘yellow flag’ approach to gun violence prevention

By Beth Negus Viveiros

In the wake of the mass shootings in Lewiston, Maine, the state's unique “yellow flag” law—designed...

April 30th, 2025

Trevor Project research highlights LGBTQ+ youth challenges by region

By Susan Gonsalves

New research by The Trevor Project gives a state-by-state look at the mental health, suicide risk, access...

April 1st, 2025

Vermont considers mental health licensure reform

By Beth Negus Viveiros

New recommendations from Vermont’s Office of Professional Regulation’s (OPR) aim to streamline...

April 1st, 2025

Five Mass. cities designated as `sanctuaries,’ for transgender population

By Susan Gonsalves

In March, Cambridge, Pittsfield and Boston became the latest communities to designate themselves as...

April 1st, 2025

Medicare telehealth waiver extended again

By Eileen Weber

Telehealth just had a pretty close call.
For those relying on Medicare, the expiration deadline for...

April 1st, 2025

Psychological first aid available following traumatic events

By Eileen Weber

As Americans, we have seen our fair share of disasters. We have witnessed countless mass shootings in...

April 1st, 2025

The president and the poet

By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.

It had snowed heavily the night before, and the day dawned with a frigid wind and blinding sunlight that glinted off the blanket of white spread out in all directions where the...

March 2nd, 2025

Study finds unequal reimbursement rates in CT’s mental healthcare

By Eileen Weber

Late last year, the Office of Health Strategy (OHS), outlined payment parity issues with Connecticut’s...

March 2nd, 2025

Preventing unplanned therapy termination

By Ellen Anderson, Ph.D

If only therapy would end neatly when the client reaches the desired goals! It is not always easy for the client or the therapist to determine when and how to end therapy. In a...

March 2nd, 2025

Advice given for treating immigrant population

By Catherine Robertson Souter

America is a "nation of immigrants,' as President Kennedy once said, where we like to think of ourselves...