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A new book, The Mindful College Student, written by Eric Loucks, Ph.D., offers a self help guide to engage with the practice of mindfulness, focused on college students.
The practice of mindfulness keeps expanding
PROVIDENCE – A new book, The Mindful College Student, written by Eric Loucks, Ph..D., offers a self-help  guide for college students on how to become engaged with the practice of … more
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A map displaying the incidence of children who were obese or overweight, taken from a 2019 issue brief produced by Rhode Island KIDS COUNT.
Does Rhode Island have an eating disorder?
PROVIDENCE – Talented Boston Globe columnist Dan McGowan has the gift of the gab. Time and again, McGowan has displayed his prodigious skills in moderating conversations on Facebook and in … more
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Mayor Jorge Elorza signs a proclamation in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month at the fire station on Branch Avenue, in a ceremony following the announcement of a new public safety initiative to embed behavioral health clinicians from The Providence Center at 9-1-1 offices and as part of a mobile response team.
Changing the dynamics around public safety, mental health
PROVIDENCE – May is “Mental Health Awareness Month, and there was more than a wee bit of irony in how Gov. Dan McKee and his team put together a plan to celebrate a Mental Health Action … more
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Jonathan Goyer, standing underneath a portrait of Jim Gillen.
Opioid Settlement Advisory Council may have stumbled out of the starting block
PART TwoPROVIDENCE – Call it the liveliest experiment now ongoing in Rhode Island. Thanks to the innovative legal strategies pursued by R.I. Attorney General Peter Neronha,, more than a hundred … more
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Margaret Howard, Ph.D., director of the Women's Behavioral Health Center at Women & Infants Hospital, who is working in partnership with the R.I. Department of Health with two psychiatric resource networks, one targeted for pregnant and post-partum moms and the other for pediatric patients.
Connecting providers with mental health resources for patients
PROVIDENCE – It is no secret that the demand for mental health services has accelerated in response to the continuing trauma, loss and isolation caused by the COVID pandemic, stressing out the … more
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