New Book on Mental Health Screening

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Mental Health Screening:

How Will It Affect Your Children?

Dr. Dennis Cuddy, author, political analyst, historian, and former

senior associate of the U.S. Department of education, is a Christian

with a wealth of background experience and knowledge. One of his areas

of great concern has been the government's Mental Health Screening

program. We wrote a brief article, titled " Shades of Nineteen

Eighty-Four, " in our January-February 2005 newsletter. It was about the

President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, which is working

towards mental health screening and treatment throughout the schools

and throughout the U.S. population.

Dr. Cuddy's research goes beyond our investigation and provides

Christians with information about how this will affect them and their

children. We are grateful that several of Cuddy's articles, loaded

with extensive research findings, are posted on the internet at

<www.newswithviews.com/Cuddy/dennisA.htm>. The following is from that

web site:

One way mental health professionals have tried to convince the people

that they are in need of help is to broaden the definition of what are

considered mental health problems. In the previous Part of this series,

I referred to TeenScreen, a program screening 9th and 10th graders in

36 states for risk of suicide, anxiety disorders, depression, and drug

and alcohol disorders. According to the February 2005 Education

Reporter, " TeenScreen officials say that generally up to one-third of

the students who undergo screening show some signs of mental health

problems, and about half of those are referred to mental health

services-for a total of about 15% of the students screened. " A

typical question from TeenScreen is " Have you often felt very nervous

when you've had things to do in front of people? " If this is supposed

to be an indication of someone having a mental health problem, then who

doesn't have one? As you can see, these types of questions can

additionally be considered an invasion of one's right to privacy "

(excerpted from " Mental Health, Education and Social Control " by Dennis

Cuddy, Ph.D., <www.newswithviews.com/Cuddy/dennis25.htm>).

Cuddy recently completed a book titled Mental Health Screening: How

Will It Affect Your Children? The description on the back cover says:

The impetus for this book has been the recommendation of President

W. Bush's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, that all

Americans, and especially children, receive mental health screening.

In the past, whenever there was controversial congressional legislation

regarding children, it was easy to introduce and pass provisions in the

bills requiring parental consent. However, recent attempts by U.S. Rep.

Ron to require parental consent for, and prohibit funding of,

mental health screenings failed. This leads many to wonder whether

there may be a larger agenda at work here, and it is in this new book

that this larger agenda, its background, and its future implications,

are explored.

This is a companion book to his book titled National Mental Health

Program: Creating Standards for the New World Order. Both of these

books are available from Bible Belt Publishing, 500 Beacon Drive,

Oklahoma City, OK 73127, phone: (800) 652-1144.