For Pregnant Women and Children Preschool and Up...
There is a major U.S. mental health initiative on the docket, based on a report of the New Freedom in Mental Health Commission, which recommends mental health screening for adults and children as young as preschool age in primary care health settings, schools, and correctional facilities. It also includes expanding school based mental health programs requiring specific treatments for specific conditions, including the use of specific medications.
Think it won't happen? A few months ago Illinois bureaucrats began pushing through a plan passed into law by their legislature to screen the mental health of all pregnant women and children up to 18 years of age in their state. The plan also includes discounted psychotropic drugs.
As reported in the Illinois Leader, Larry Trainor, a parent of four children and Illinois contact for the Los Angeles based Citizens Commission on Human Rights, said "Since psychiatric involvement in education, SAT scores have gone down for the past few decades. Evaluating mental conditions is not based on scientific evidence, it's subjective." If you think that the government and schools are intruding in an area that should be the responsibility of parents and the family doctor then do something.
Read more at my Issues Library page at www.changingworldviews.com.
Also, this week on the show we re-air some of the Best of 2004 with Dr. Christopher Hook on "The Uneasy Blending of People and Machines", George Barna on "Surveying Worldview and Morality", Richard Abanes on "The Truth Behind the Da Vinci Code" & Dr. Jay Budz on "What we Can't Not Know". Also, one of our most popular shows with Jayna Davis, author of "The Third Terrorist" on "The Oklahoma City Bombing and September 11th Connection. God to www.changingworldviews.com and click on the mic at the top of the page to listen online.
© Sharon Hughes 2004
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There are many, many things that people have claimed as the cause of the drop in SAT scores. I'm curious why you think this one among the many potential causes is a primary one. I agree with you in not liking much of what these people do, but pointing out that two things happened at the same time doesn't prove any causation. It could be that causation runs the other way or that one more fundamental cause led to both of them, and it's also possible that they're independent and just happened at the same time.
Dear Jeremy, In my article the connection between SAT scores and mental health/schools is a quote from a parent. I agree with you it is but one element responsible for the drop in scores. Dumbing down; social engineering; school-to-work, et al, are also responsible. We have some good information on this on our website's WarZone/Frontlines page. See http://www.changingworldviews.com/Frontline.htm. Thanks for your input.
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