Articles, Leading Stories

April 1st, 2012

New commissioner outlines priorities

By Catherine Robertson Souter

Gov. Deval Patrick recently announced that Marcia Fowler, M.A., J.D., had been chosen to take on the role of commissioner for the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health...

April 1st, 2012

Research Domain Criteria could enhance how clinicians diagnose

By Jennifer E Chase

For several years, a workgroup at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in Bethesda, Md., has been designing a framework for creating a new way to classify mental...

April 1st, 2012

SAMHSA merges approaches for one recovery definition

By Janine Weisman

Can recovery mean the same thing to someone with a mental health disorder and someone with a drug or alcohol addiction?

The answer is ‘yes’ under the Substance Abuse...

April 1st, 2012

Hospital studies CBT for treatment of body dysmorphic disorder

By Jennifer E Chase

A new five-year study at Rhode Island Hospital – in collaboration with the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston – will for the first time test...

April 1st, 2012

Possible change in autism definition raises concern

By Jennifer E Chase

With the publish date of the DSM-5 roughly a year away, a new community of skeptics has emerged in autism advocates and clinicians, many of whom fear a revision to the autism...

March 1st, 2012

APA to develop treatment guidelines

By Nan Shnitzler

For the first time, the American Psychological Association (APA) has launched an initiative to develop evidence-based clinical treatment guidelines. The Council of...

March 1st, 2012

Plans to close Taunton State meet with opposition

By Catherine Robertson Souter

With the announced plan to close the 157-year-old Taunton State Hospital, a Massachusetts mental health facility, by the end of the year, the state has taken another step...

March 1st, 2012

Maine tackles DHHS budget

By Nan Shnitzler

For the past three months, Maine has been grappling with a supplemental budget that cuts $220 million from the Department of Health and Human Services for the current and...

March 1st, 2012

Initiative prompted by rash of suicides

By Pamela Berard

Youth suicide prevention is at the forefront of efforts in two New England states. Connecticut experienced a rash of suicides last fall while a Rhode Island study showed an...

March 1st, 2012

Options for licensure draw mostly positive reviews

By Phyllis Hanlon

Five years ago, the American Psychological Association shifted its thinking regarding licensure requirements. In lieu of the traditional postdoctoral experience, the APA...

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