TeenScreen -- Screen Tests for the Psycho-Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex

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TeenScreen -- Screen Tests for the Psycho-Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex

 

watch short video @ http://www.psychsearch.net/teenscreen.html

 

" It's just a way to put more people on prescription drugs, " and reliant on

our government subsidized drug dealers.

 

TeenScreen is based on the thoroughly discredited " Diagnostic and Statistical

Manual of Mental Disorders " .

 

 

Here's how it works...

 

 

 

Procedure on Young Children

 

Step One

 

TeenScreen lures kids as young as 9 years old into doing the suicide survey by

offering them free movie passes, food coupons, " I completed TeenScreen " stress

balls and pizza parties, if they consent to the procedure.

 

One tactic TeenScreen officials use is to sell the child on the suicide survey

first and after they have the child's agreement, they later contact parents.

 

TeenScreen Project Coordinator, Kathleen Cigich, was quoted as saying: " We found

early on, though, that sending out letters directly to parents is prohibitively

time consuming and gets a low response rate. We thought, why not go to students

themselves and offer a $5 video store coupon to anyone who brings back a

parental consent form within a two-day turnaround period. It works. Our response

rate is extremely high. "

 

TeenScreen also utilizes a " passive consent " form which requires no written

parental approval. The passive consent form is sent home to parents and if they

don't return it TeenScreen considers that the parents approve. TeenScreen

officials favor passive consent because they say it boosts their chances of

screening kids to 95% as opposed to the written parental consent technique. What

if the child forgets to bring the consent form home? What happens if the parent

is too busy to refuse in writing? They've consented in the eyes of TeenScreen

personnel.

 

Step Two

 

The youngster is sat down and asked introverting questions such as:

 

 

Has there been a time when nothing was fun for you and you just weren't

interested in anything?

Has there been a time when you felt you couldn't do anything well or that you

weren't as good-looking or as smart as other people?

How often did your parents get annoyed or upset with you because of the way

you were feeling or acting?

Have you often felt very nervous when you've had to do things in front of

people?

Have you often worried a lot before you were going to play a sport or game or

do some other activity?

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?

 

Step Three

 

Based on the answers the child gives to the above questions he is then shuffled

off to a " clinician " , who ponders the bogus label to use.

 

Social Phobia?

 

Panic Disorder?

 

Anxiety?

 

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?

 

Active Suicide Ideation?

 

Passive Suicide Ideation?

 

You can find the checklist used to label the child here: labeling checklist

 

IMPORTANT NOTE TO PARENTS:

 

Parents are being mislead by a multi billion-dollar a year child drugging

industry that a diagnoses of " mental disorder " (ADHD, Bi-Polar, Social Anxiety

Disorder) are medical diseases or illnesses. This is a fraud. No child has a

brain scan, blood test, X-Ray or any evidence of physical abnormality to verify

they are " ill " or " diseased. "

 

Yet psychiatrists continue to pound the public with misleading and fraudulent

statements that these so called mental disorders are biochemical or neurological

conditions. That is false. They are simply a list of behaviors that

psychiatrists vote into existence and insert into their billing bible, the

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

 

This has led to over 8 million children in the U.S. taking mind-altering

psychiatric drugs.

 

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders, 4th Edition

(DSM-IV), published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), is

psychiatry's billing bible of " disorders " from which psychiatric screening,

diagnoses and their treatment are derived. The current edition lists 374

psychiatric conditions that have been identified as mental disorders.

 

Yet, the disorders contained in the DSM-IV are arrived at by consensus, not by

scientific criteria. There are no blood tests, brain scans, X-Rays, MRIs or

" chemical imbalance " tests that can scientifically validate any mental

" disorder " as a disease or illness. Canadian psychologist Tana Dineen reports,

" Unlike medical diagnoses that convey a probable cause, appropriate treatment

and likely prognosis, the disorders listed in DSM-IV are terms arrived at

through peer consensus " - literally, a vote by APA committee members.

 

Step Four

 

The " clinician " summarizes his report and comes up with an " impairment score " .

 

Step Five

 

Based on how the child answered the " suicide survey " , and which label the

clinician conjured up and how the child did on his " impairment score " the child

is then sent off for " treatment " .

 

What treatment?

Drugs. A survey of recently trained child psychiatrists found the treatment for

9 out of 10 children consisted of drugging. (Journal of the American Academy of

Child Adolescent Psychiatry 2002)

 

The " treatment " used on children with these bogus labels can be found here:

Medication Guidelines

 

" Treatment " is the long term goal for TeenScreen according to their director,

Laurie Flynn.

 

What does the Food and Drug Administration say about these drugs? See here:

Black Box Warning

 

TeenScreen — no evidence of workability

TeenScreen officials admit that there have been no studies that show that their

program reduces suicide. That is not surprising, because the U.S. Preventive

Services Task Force report of May of 2004 states:

 

A. There is no evidence that screening for suicide risk reduces suicide attempts

or mortality.

 

B. There is limited evidence on the accuracy of screening tools to identify

suicide risk.

 

C. There is insufficient evidence that treatment of those at high risk reduces

suicide attempts or mortality.

 

D. No studies were found that directly address the harms of screening and

treatment for suicide risk.

 

TeenScreen has no proof that their survey reduces suicide rates. The co-director

of TeenScreen Rob Caruano, says that suicides are so rare that you'd have to

screen the whole country to see a difference in mortality between screened and

unscreened students.

 

 

(The above is @ http://www.psychsearch.net/teenscreen.html where text

continues with history, background on the founding pushers --notably Laurie

Flynn, TeenScreen's director, and drug company paid dirt bag psychiatrist David

Shaffer. Shaffer is a consultant (see page 21 of this Executive Summary report)

and apologist of pharmaceutical companies. and " founded " this project with an

$8million grant from pharma) You'll also find encouraging statstics there--most

people are just not buying into this crock.

 

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