Thursday, December 28, 2006

Mental health screening program for teens

Since half of all serious psychiatric disorders surface sometime between the ages of 14 and 25, it makes sense to screen teens for mental illness. A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine reports on the success of TeenScreen, in which more than 55,000 teens in 42 states were screened. Click here to read the abstract. Fyi, a pdf of the entire article is available free -- THANKS to the NEJM!
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Anonymous said...

Well, it's about time. TeenScreen finally found a sympathetic psychiatrist who would take their money and write a letter for them. Most usually they have been pounded across the nation, and rightly so.

See petition here: http://www.petitiononline.com/TScreen/petition.html

For real articles (not paid) see below:
http://www.aafp.org/afp/20041201/us.html

http://www.ablechild.org/newsarchive/TeenScreen%20National%20News%2005-20-06.htm

http://www.alternativemedicine.com/common/news/printable.asp?task=store_news&SID_store_news=1414&storeID=02AD61F001A74B5887D3BD11F6C28169

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/15/AR2006061501984.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100601391.html

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/editorials/la-op-psych1jan01,0,1868753.story?coll=la-home-sunday-opinion

2:49 PM
Anonymous said...

Thanks for posting this article. Because of it I searched the internet and found out what this program is REALLY all about - scary stuff. Teen Screen will NEVER get their hands on my children!
http://www.teenscreentruth.com

http://www.psychsearch.net/teenscreen.html

11:00 PM

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