RECENTLY, THE STATE STARTED REQUIRING THAT ALL PEDIATRICIANS SCREEN THEIR MEDICAID PATIENTS FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS.
IT’S A COURT-MANDATED MOVE AIMED AT IDENTIFYING TROUBLED CHILDREN AND GETTING EARLIER TREATMENT. BUT SOME ALSO WORRY THE SCREENINGS COULD PUT MORE STRESS ON A MENTAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM THAT’S ALREADY UNDER STRAIN.
Click here to listen to Karen Brown’s story.
Share:
This entry is filed under News Stories.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Comments
Don’t be fooled. Screening children for depression and such made up “diseases” as ADHD, for which there is no objective scientific test or even any scientific basis for saying such a disease exists, is a marketing tool for the pharmaceutical industry to sell, at taxpayer expense, their dangerous and addictive drugs such as Ritilin. All parents should refuse mental health screening for their children or they risk having their child labeled as mentally ill and prescribed medications with serious side effects based on only some psychiatrist’s subjective opinion. See a competent medical doctor if your child is having problems and refuse mental health screening.
Hi, I can’t understand how to add your site in my rss reader. Can you Help me, please