School Violence
Could the rise in school violence be due to the prescription drugs
prescribed for depression and mental health disorders - the same
drugs that the FDA says can cause violence, suicide and suicidal
thoughts? Mental health screening, like Teen Screen, would insure
more of our children are labeled and put on these medications. (...more)
Psychiatry Gone Wild: TeenScreen
Documents Exposed.
The goal of TeenScreen, the very controversial child screening program,
is to do a mental suicide screening of every U.S. child before they
graduate from high school. According to their website, they utilize
screening instruments called the Diagnostic Predictive Scales (DPS)
and the Columbia Health Screen (CHS).
Children as young as 9 years old are asked to answer the DPS or
CHS questions. Afterwards, summary forms are then filled out by
a clinician. TeenScreen's high false positive rate has many schools
and parents alarmed that normal children will be labeled with mental
disorders. For example the San Francisco Chronicle has just reported
that "Local public schools have resisted TeenScreen. San Francisco
Unified School District, for example, passed on TeenScreen because
it can generate false positives and drain counseling resources.
Other critics worry TeenScreen could send kids unnecessarily into
treatment and land too many on psychiatric drugs."
Certainly pharmaceutical companies will benefit from mass screening
of our children.
Below you can find links to all 4 documents: The DPS, DPS Summary
Form, the CHS and the CHS Summary Form.
The documents are being made available for educational purposes,
to advance understanding of the ramifications of mass mental screening
as related to human rights, scientific, moral, ethical, and social
justice issues. This material is distributed without profit.
The Washington Post reported in an article entitled Suicide-Risk
Tests for Teens Debated on June 16, 2006. "Shaffer said the
screening test he developed is now in the public domain".
Shaffer, is the psychiatrist who invented TeenScreen.
Video
on TeenScreen Controversy
CCHR protested a psychiatric
conference in Niagara Falls, NY on July 21-23, 2006.
Stop
TeenScreen's Unscientific and Experimental "Mental Health Screening"
of American School Children
To: School Board Members and State and Federal
Legislators
Whereas children as young as 9, who previously had not thought of
the concept of suicide, are being asked invasive and leading questions
by TeenScreen such as: Have you tried to kill yourself in the last
year? Are you still thinking of killing yourself? Have you thought
seriously about killing yourself? Have you often thought about killing
yourself? Have you ever tried to kill yourself?" and kids are
being lured into doing the suicide survey by TeenScreen's offers
of free movie passes, food coupons, pizza parties and $50 mall gift
certificates; (...more)
SEE FOR YOURSELF:
Psychiatrists admit no science and no cures.
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