Posted on 10/27/2007 8:50:56 PM PDT by ddtorquee
TeenScreen is a very controversial, unworkable and unscientific suicide screening program developed by a psychiatrist named David Shaffer. It is obvious that psychiatric drug manufacturers are very interested in this program because it will funnel more customers to them - our children... Click on the links below to view a listing of the TeenScreen programs that we have confirmed. We have included names and email addresses of people you can contact to tell them what you think of the TeenScreen program:
• Alaska • Arizona • Arkansas • California • Connecticut • Florida • Georgia • Illinois • Indiana • Iowa • Louisiana • Minnesota • Mississippi • Missouri • Montana • Maine
• New Hampshire • New Jersey • New Mexico • New York • North Dakota • North Carolina • Ohio • Oklahoma • Oregon • Pennsylvania • Tennessee • Texas • Utah • Washington State • West Virginia • Wisconsin
(Excerpt) Read more at teenscreen-locations.com ...
Setting the Record Straight about TeenScreen
http://www.teenscreen.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=98&Itemid=206
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The list also specifies which schools are using “Passive Consent” forms - meaning if a parent doesn’t return the form, it’s assumed they consent to to have their child undergo psychiatric screening.
Example:
Sealy Junior High School< Texas
Implemented using passive consent. Parents who do NOT sign a form, have given permission for their child to be screened!
Parents’ Rights and Teen Privacy
TeenScreen requires parent consent and teen assent for participation in the program. All local TeenScreen programs must obtain parent permission before offering screening to youth. The national program’s consent policy requires all school-based TeenScreen programs to obtain active, written parent consent for screening. Non school-based programs are strongly advised to use active consent as well, and the majority of these sites use this consent method. In addition to obtaining parent consent, youth must also provide written assent to participate in the TeenScreen Program. At any time during the screening, youth may refuse to answer any question.
The TeenScreen Program’s success is being used by some to advance their own anti-mental health agendas. For example, some organizations that have strong feelings against mental health programs persist in claiming that the program is funded by drug companies or is trying to encourage anti-depressant use. Both of these assertions are untrue.
The TeenScreen Program has never received support or funding from pharmaceutical companies for screening.
Although TeenScreen screens for the symptoms that are associated with different mental health disorders, the program does not make any diagnoses and does not involve treatment.
TeenScreen does not screen for schizophrenia or psychosis, “externalizing disorders,” like ADHD, or disorders that require behavioral observation for detection, like autism.
http://www.teenscreen.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=98&Itemid=206#works
Eagle Forum:
“Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceutical corporations are gearing up for bigger sales of antidepressant and psychostimulant drugs.
Like most liberal big-spending ideas, this one was slipped into the law under cover of sweet words. It started with the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health created by President George W. Bush’s Executive Order 13263 of April 29, 2002. The Commission issued its report on July 22, 2003. President Bush has instructed 25 federal agencies to develop a plan to implement the Commissions recommendations.
In 2004, Congress appropriated $20 million to finance the recommendations of this New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. Congress also passed the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act that included $7 million for suicide screening, and tens of millions more for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and its Center for Mental Health Services. The No Child Left Behind Act already includes $5 million for Mental Health Integration. These funds appear to be part of a larger plan to get more and more people labeled and in the psychiatric system or, as some say, to move children into the psychotherapeutic state.
This Commission on Mental Health laid out a federal plan that could subject all children to mental health screening in school and during routine physical exams. The clear plan is to use the public schools to subject all children to mental examinations, forcing millions of kids to undergo psychiatric screening whether their parents consent or not.
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The government bureaucrats who are promoting universal mental health screening for all children are praising a Columbia University based program called TeenScreen as a national model. This program has already been tried out on 43,000 young people in 36 states. It screens 9th and 10th graders for risk of suicide, anxiety disorders, depression, and drug and alcohol disorders. “
http://www.eagleforum.org/psr/2005/mar05/psrmar05.html
"[edit] Controversy
TeenScreen has become the subject of much controversy. It has been criticized by many family groups, professional associations, education groups, legislators, doctors, and watch-dog organizations publicly opposing mental health screening in general and TeenScreen in particular. These groups include the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), Eagle Forum, the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology, Alliance for Human Research Protection, the Liberty Coalition, Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), EdWatch, the Rutherford Institute, Texans for Safe Education and the Citizens for Health.
These groups spoke up in opposition of screenings that were being conducted without explicit parental consent that relied instead on passive consent, whereby consent is assumed if it is not explicitly denied.[5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] On June 5, 2006, TeenScreen changed their consent procedures for public schools so that active parental consent - meaning that parents have to sign and turn in a permission slip - is now a requirement of TeenScreen in public schools.[13] Passive consent is still being used in some private schools, in teen shelters and the juvenile justice system.
TeenScreen is the subject of a lawsuit in a case in Indiana.[14][15] "
Excerpt from Wikipedia.
Sounds like 43,000 young people permanently barred from buying guns- or serving in the US military. Stealth gun control.
If you click on that link, you’re not paranoid!
I wouldn’t believe anything from “psychotherapists”. Thousands of children have been railroaded onto Ridalin or worse by these crooks.
I don’t believe that that’s even legal, the concept of passive assent. That’s going on the assumption that the parents even got the information and understood it.
I’m sorry to hear about your brother, but I have my reservations about this kind of program.
For one thing, if it works like other health based programs, it’s going to be an abysmal failure. Kids won’t be caught, because those who are really suicidal are probably best at hiding it, and in all likelihood, many kids are going to be labeled who are perfectly normal.
Another thing is, as mentioned above, for the kids who are labeled for some reason, there’s going to be too much government intrusion and restrictions.
The creators of the program say that your allegations are untrue.
Would you like to offer some proof?
Just as a note, I’ve never heard of TeenScreen in my area or anywhere else until I read this thread, but I am suspicious of fear-mongering threads that offer no proof of their allegations.
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