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2 More States Seek to Ban Conversion Therapy

March 11, 2013

State legislatures in New Jersey and Massachusetts are considering banning conversion therapy for minors while a federal court decides... Read more...

 

RxP Movement Regrouping

January 14, 2013

Columbus, Ohio – The RxP movement to expand the number of jurisdictions that permit properly trained psychologists to prescribe psychotropic... Read more...

 

Medicare to Cut Payments for Not Meeting Reporting Requirements

November 7, 2012

Apathy is turning into urgency as clini-cians who bill under Medicare learn that financial penalties are slated for 2015 for non-compliance... Read more...

 

Petition Seeks to Dump DSM and Adopt ICD

September 12, 2012

The National Alliance of Professional Psychology Providers (NAPPP) has launched a petition drive encouraging psychologists... Read more...

 

Revised National Plan on Alzheimer’s Released

July 23, 2012

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the Obama administration released the first national plan to... Read more...

 

BCBS of Florida Takes Dangerous ‘New Directions’

May 2, 2012

“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble.” – Macbeth by William Shakespeare In the latter half of 2011,... Read more...

 

TNP writer/editor Richard E. Gill dies after battle with cancer

March 26, 2012

Assistant Editor Richard E. Gill died Feb. 26, 2012 from pneumonia following an extended battle with cancer. A trooper to the end,... Read more...

 

APA Leading the Charge Against ‘Medicalizing’ DSM-5

January 16, 2012

The American Psychiatric Association (ApA) plans a third – and final – comment period sometime this spring for voicing concerns... Read more...

 

Psychologists Integral to Relief in Joplin Disaster

November 14, 2011

The more than 100 disasters the APA’s Disaster Response Network (DRN) has worked this year range from a small apartment fire to grass... Read more...

 

DeLeon Retiring as Senator’s Chief of Staff

September 19, 2011

The cluster of degrees behind his name shows that Patrick H. DeLeon, Ph.D., M.P.H., J.D., is no stranger to classrooms, and now that... Read more...

 

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