Abstract from The Peoples' Voice: http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2006/06/16/p8827 What TeenScreen Doesn’t Want You to Know About Parental Consent, Friday, 16 June 2006, Opinion: Guest Opinion By Mary Collins
There are federal and state laws requiring “informed consent”, meaning that before someone agrees to participate in any medical procedure or experiment, they must be informed of and must understand the medical facts and the risks involved.
“Full informed consent” for TeenScreen would be a consent given only after having received and understood all the pertinent data involved.
This would include: -The purpose of screening (TeenScreen sells their service as suicide prevention but no study has even shown a reduction in suicide or proven even one prevented suicide.)
-Who is performing the screening (The screening may be performed by employees or agents of a for-profit “mental health” treatment facility but this may not be divulged to parents.)
-That the screening has an 84% rate of false-positives (meaning that as many as 84% of students can be falsely identified as “mentally ill”)
-The screening questions (TeenScreen will not reveal the questions to parents)
-The potentially bad effect of presenting suicide as something to be considered
-A full understanding of the basic foundation of psychiatry’s “diagnoses”, since there are no scientific tests that show whether a person has or does not have a mental disorder-The fact that Psychiatry’s “Diagnostic Statistical Manual” has over 300 behaviors that have just been voted on, according to whim, not tests or real facts
-The fact that the child may be diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder with no objective medical testing, a label which can remain with that child for the rest of his life
-That some career paths may be closed to the child because of the diagnosis and/or psychiatric treatment
-That the parents may lose their parental rights or even be criminally charged with neglect if they refuse to accept the diagnosis and give the child psychiatric treatment
-A full understanding of the dangers and effects of the drugs that may be given to children for these “mental disorders” including deaths, violence and suicide
NO TeenScreen sites use full informed consent.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
Communicate.
Call your local school board or high school today. Find out if they have used or are even considering TeenScreen. If they are, make a formal, written request for records and find out if they are providing full informed consent in accordance with the law. Demand that your rights be protected. Write letters to the school and the school board, show up at meetings and speak up for parental rights, inform and organize your friends to do the same. Demand full informed consent, always. It is the only way to protect the rights of parents.
Abstract from The Peoples' Voice: http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2006/06/16/p8827
What TeenScreen Doesn’t Want You to Know About Parental Consent, Friday, 16 June 2006, Opinion: Guest Opinion By Mary Collins
There are federal and state laws requiring “informed consent”, meaning that before someone agrees to participate in any medical procedure or experiment, they must be informed of and must understand the medical facts and the risks involved.
“Full informed consent” for TeenScreen would be a consent given only after having received and understood all the pertinent data involved.
This would include:
-The purpose of screening (TeenScreen sells their service as suicide prevention but no study has even shown a reduction in suicide or proven even one prevented suicide.)
-Who is performing the screening (The screening may be performed by employees or agents of a for-profit “mental health” treatment facility but this may not be divulged to parents.)
-That the screening has an 84% rate of false-positives (meaning that as many as 84% of students can be falsely identified as “mentally ill”)
-The screening questions (TeenScreen will not reveal the questions to parents)
-The potentially bad effect of presenting suicide as something to be considered
-A full understanding of the basic foundation of psychiatry’s “diagnoses”, since there are no scientific tests that show whether a person has or does not have a mental disorder-The fact that Psychiatry’s “Diagnostic Statistical Manual” has over 300 behaviors that have just been voted on, according to whim, not tests or real facts
-The fact that the child may be diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder with no objective medical testing, a label which can remain with that child for the rest of his life
-That some career paths may be closed to the child because of the diagnosis and/or psychiatric treatment
-That the parents may lose their parental rights or even be criminally charged with neglect if they refuse to accept the diagnosis and give the child psychiatric treatment
-A full understanding of the dangers and effects of the drugs that may be given to children for these “mental disorders” including deaths, violence and suicide
NO TeenScreen sites use full informed consent.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
Communicate.
Call your local school board or high school today. Find out if they have used or are even considering TeenScreen. If they are, make a formal, written request for records and find out if they are providing full informed consent in accordance with the law. Demand that your rights be protected. Write letters to the school and the school board, show up at meetings and speak up for parental rights, inform and organize your friends to do the same. Demand full informed consent, always. It is the only way to protect the rights of parents.