Schools Are Being Transformed Into Mental Health Providers

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Chapter Nine

Schools Are Being Transformed Into Mental Health Providers

LINK TO PART 1

To receive reimbursement from Medicaid or other third party insurers, persons

rendering mental health services must establish that a child has a psychiatric

or psychological disorder listed in the American Psychiatric Association's

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (4th Edition). As a part of the transition to

allow Medicaid reimbursement for " treating " a child with a reading problem, the

definition for " medical problems " had to be broadened. The American Psychiatric

Association Diagnosis Statistical Manual (DSM IV) was revised dramatically. The

number of codes for psychiatric " ailments " used for insurance purposes was

increased from less than 50 to almost 350. Basically, " mental disorder " was

redefined to include what once would have been considered variations in ability

or talent like " has difficulty in reading or math--or " growing up " behaviors

such as " talking back " or " breaking up with girl or boy friend. " (1)

Since Medicaid rules require a code designation from the Diagnostic and

Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, every child billed through Medicaid will

have a mental disability code permanently assigned to his medical record. The

Pennsylvania legislative committee's report said:

This diagnosis of a psychiatric or psychological disorder becomes a part of

the child's record with potentially adverse consequences for that child in the

future as far as employment.(2)

In Pennsylvania, some psychiatrists and psychologists protested the

Medicaid-financed in-school " mental health " services. They claimed that

unqualified teachers and counselors were practicing medicine and making what

could be questionable and dangerous diagnoses. Rohrer said:

The potential for this disability designation haunting the child throughout

his future is frightening. One current example is that children labeled,

sometimes fraudulently, with the mental disorder designation of ADD or ADHD and

who are placed on Ritalin or equivalent and receive the drugs through age 12 are

already being denied entrance into the military.(3)

Similar concerns that notations in school records could jeopardize a child's

future were raised by North Dakota Labor Commissioner Craig Hagen when he

resigned from his state's School-to-Work management agency. He said:

North Dakota's STW plan calls for developing career portfolios for each pupil

" containing notations of skills, hobbies, talents, and personal goals, as well

as records of work experiences, inter and extra curricula activities, training

programs and significant accomplishments. The state is to train teachers in

implementing portfolios, which will be " sources of information for future

employers. " Essentially, these all-inclusive files will follow an individual

throughout life. (See Chapter 7)

The STW portfolio system Hagen mentioned is to be stored ultimately in an

electronic file available for access by prospective employers. Hagen said, " Kids

make lots of mistakes growing up and maturing. These mistakes don't need to be

recorded to haunt them the rest of their lives. " This is particularly dangerous

when designations of " mental disorder " are made so schools can be reimbursed for

treating a reading problem. Hagen added that permanent records should only

contain objective material and not subjective judgments made by teachers or

counselors at some point during twelve years of schooling. Genevieve Young, who

investigated the problem for the Center on Exempt Organization Responsibility

confirmed the problem. She said:

Children can now be labeled in permanent records for life, with physical and

mental disorders identified by school personnel.(4)

The term " mental disorder " means different things to different people. What do

the mental health " experts " who apply the label mean? Listen to the words of Dr.

G. Brock Chisolm, first head of the World Federation of Mental Health. Later he

became head of the World Health Organization of the United Nations. His address,

sponsored by the Alanson White Psychiatric Foundation, was delivered in

October 1945, in Washington, DC, to a large group of psychiatrists and

high-government officials. Chisolm said:

What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of

which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing these

perversions is morality--the concept of right and wrong. The re-interpretation

and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are the belated

objectives of nearly all psychotherapy.

If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must

be psychiatrists who take the original responsibility.

(5)

Anticipating an objection, Chisolm added:

The pretense is made that to do away with right and wrong would produce

uncivilized people, immorality, lawlessness, and social chaos. The fact is that

most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respected people have escaped

from moral chains and are able to think freely.

Fifty years after Chisolm made those " mental health " pronouncements, society is

plagued by " uncivilized people, immorality, lawlessness and social chaos. "

Chisolm had been obsessed for years with the idea that instilling concepts of

right and wrong, love of country, and morality in children by their parents is

the paramount evil. In another speech, he said:

The people who have been taught to believe whatever they were told by their

parents or their teachers are the people who are the menace to the world.(6)

It was this same concept which Harvard psychiatry professor Chester Pierce

enunciated at the Childhood International Seminar in 1973 in Denver. As has

already been quoted in Chapter 4 Pierce told educators:

Every child in America entering school at the age of 5 is mentally ill because

he comes to school with certain allegiances to our founding fathers, toward our

elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being,

and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It's up to you

as teachers to make all these sick children well--by creating the international

child of the future.

That's what will result from in-school mental health programs, the " behavior

modification cycle of OBE, the Medicaid-financed programs for " at-risk "

students, School-to-Work, multi-culturalism, diversity training and the

NEA-promoted counseling sessions. They all contribute to " creating the

international child of the future. "

Drs. Chisolm and Pierce cannot be written off as " two isolated crackpots. " After

expressing these views widely and frequently fifty years ago, Chisolm became

head of the World Federation of Mental Health and the World Health Organization.

Is it any wonder that Chisolm's appointment as head of the World Health

Organization was warmly sponsored by his friend, the communist spy, Alger

Hiss?(7) As detailed in the Mental Health chapter in None Dare Call It

Treason--25 YEARS LATER, other psychiatrists and psychologists have similar

views, officially expressed.

How did the Chisolms and the other experts hope to achieve control over

Americans they say need " care " ? Chisolm provided the answer:

We may begin to speculate on the advisability that psychiatrists, once the

necessary one, two, or three million are available should be trained as salesmen

and be taught all the techniques of breaking down sales resistance.(8)

The growing field of " school counselors " is filling the " need. " Even counselors

with sound beliefs, those who recognize that most mental health " problems " are

rooted in spiritual needs that cannot by law give truly troubled students real

answers.

The two drastic changes made in Title I and Medicaid guidelines broaden the

definitions of what " treatments " can " earn " reimbursements under the two federal

programs. Waivers are the third factor which has allowed government-sponsored

in-school mental health treatments to be imposed on hundreds of thousands of

school students. Waivers have been a key factor in the medicalization of schools

without the approval of Congress or state legislatures. Representative Rohrer's

committee learned how it works. He said:

It's a bureaucracy to bureaucracy transaction. Simply have the state

exectutive branch and Department of Welfare apply to the [federal] Health Care

Finance Administration and waivers will be granted. Once granted these waivers

allow all types of things to occur.

There is a major problem with waivers...the very purpose of waivers is to

allow that which is not permitted by law.(9)

The federal Government Accounting Office (GAO) pointed up the danger of waivers

in testimony presented to the Congressional Committee on the Budget on April 4,

1995. The testimony was:

...allowing the waiver process to be used to expand coverage to hundreds of

thousands of additional individuals without the consultation and concurrence of

Congress appears inappropriate. The result of these waivers could lead to a

heavier financial burden on the federal government.

The states are impacted as well because all Medicaid money must be matched on

some basis by the state. That's what alerted the Pennsylvania legislature to

what was happening in the Keystone state. From 1994 to 1995, the proposed budget

jumped Medicaid expenses from about $10-million to $65-million. That prompted

the legislature to authorize its year-long investigation.

Dr. Jane M. Orient, MD, practices internal medicine and serves as the Executive

Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. While the

general public for the most part has not given much attention to the

" medicalization of the schools " and the growing " mental health treatment " of

students, Dr. Orient writes:

Some attentive parents have been very concerned about the program, especially

when they perceive that certain aspects have been deliberately concealed.

Surveys asking intrusive psychological questions have been done without parental

consent... The " consent " process for the school-based clinics may really be just

notification, at best, or an attempt at notification of possible treatment. If a

permission slip is sent home and placed in the student's file, and a refusal is

not returned within seven days, treatment is deemed to be " authorized. " There is

not even a requirement to show that the form actually arrived at the student's

home. Parents need not be notified if treatment (e.g. psychotherapy) is actually

rendered, and Medicaid does not send them an Explanation of Benefits form.(10)

No restrictions are placed on the treatment except that it must be " deemed

advisable or necessary by the student's examining or attending physicians and/or

other professional employees at the hospital.(11)

Dr. Orient added, " Treatment may be prescribed, not only for students who are

'at risk' for substance abuse, suicide, antisocial behavior, etc. but also for

those who are 'at risk of being at risk.' " (12)

What can concerned parents do? How can they determine whether the school

district which their children or grandchildren attend is providing " treatment "

for conditions designated as " mental health disorders " so they can qualify for

Medicaid reimbursement? One concerned Pennsylvania parent suggested a series of

questions, including:

Has your school obtained " partial hospitalization provider status " and/or a

Medicaid provider number? Does your school counsel students in group therapy

type sessions where family and personal matters are discussed? Do intrusive

personality " tests " ask personal questions which may induce insecurity or

undermine family relationships and values? Does your school have a procedure for

labeling students " at risk " or " at risk of being at risk " because of certain

things in their backgrounds or attitudes? Does your school have anger management

or conflict resolution lessons? Who is paying for these programs in your school?

Those questions are appropriate and need to be asked. Pennsylvania, Illinois,

Missouri, Connecticut and Kentucky have all been shown to be involved in the

medicalization of their schools. They are not alone. Medicaid funds are now

available to any state wishing to tap into them. The questions need to be asked

whether children are in public or private schools. In some states like Missouri

even parochial schools have obtained Medicaid status for their school-based

clinics.(13)

It's all part of a back door approach to a universal national health care

system. Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act from the Hillary

Clinton White House Health Care Inter-Departmental Working Group show the

connections. Even before Congress, under massive pressure from across America,

killed the Clinton proposals for a socialized universal health care plan for all

Americans plans had been made to institute the plan piecemeal starting with

children.(14) School-based clinics financed by making children from higher and

higher income families eligible for Medicaid was the key. It is being done now.

Notes

1.. Rohrer, EDUCATION REPORTER, November 1997, pg.3

2.. Final Report, pg. 18

3.. Rohrer, Speech, The Modern Child Text, pg. 9-10, Eagle Forum 1997 National

Leadership Conference, St. Louis

4.. Young, EDUCATION REPORTER, January 1997

5.. Chisolm, Psychiatry, February 1946

6.. Speech, Chisolm, Conference on Education, Asilomar, CA 9/11/54

7.. Preface, Conference Proceedings, International Conciliations, March 1948

8.. Psychiatry, February 1946

9.. Rohrer, Medical Sentinel, Vol. 3, Number 1, January/Febuary 1998, pg. 14

10.. Orient, Speech, The Clinton Plan: Entering Through the Back Door, AAPS,

pg. 6

11.. Hearing, Pennsylvania Select House Committee on HR 37, Nov. 30, 1995

12.. Consent form requested from parents of minor students, Central Dauphin

School District, burg, PA, cited by Orient

13.. , Health & Education Reform: Freedom's " Voluntary " Demise, pg.

162-62, 245

14.. Clinton Presidential Records, 44 USC22.31 #1447

..........................

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Liberty Bell Press, Post Office Box 32, Florissant, MO 63032

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Chapter Nine

Schools Are Being Transformed Into Mental Health Providers

LINK TO PART 1

To receive reimbursement from Medicaid or other third party insurers, persons

rendering mental health services must establish that a child has a psychiatric

or psychological disorder listed in the American Psychiatric Association's

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (4th Edition). As a part of the transition to

allow Medicaid reimbursement for " treating " a child with a reading problem, the

definition for " medical problems " had to be broadened. The American Psychiatric

Association Diagnosis Statistical Manual (DSM IV) was revised dramatically. The

number of codes for psychiatric " ailments " used for insurance purposes was

increased from less than 50 to almost 350. Basically, " mental disorder " was

redefined to include what once would have been considered variations in ability

or talent like " has difficulty in reading or math--or " growing up " behaviors

such as " talking back " or " breaking up with girl or boy friend. " (1)

Since Medicaid rules require a code designation from the Diagnostic and

Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, every child billed through Medicaid will

have a mental disability code permanently assigned to his medical record. The

Pennsylvania legislative committee's report said:

This diagnosis of a psychiatric or psychological disorder becomes a part of

the child's record with potentially adverse consequences for that child in the

future as far as employment.(2)

In Pennsylvania, some psychiatrists and psychologists protested the

Medicaid-financed in-school " mental health " services. They claimed that

unqualified teachers and counselors were practicing medicine and making what

could be questionable and dangerous diagnoses. Rohrer said:

The potential for this disability designation haunting the child throughout

his future is frightening. One current example is that children labeled,

sometimes fraudulently, with the mental disorder designation of ADD or ADHD and

who are placed on Ritalin or equivalent and receive the drugs through age 12 are

already being denied entrance into the military.(3)

Similar concerns that notations in school records could jeopardize a child's

future were raised by North Dakota Labor Commissioner Craig Hagen when he

resigned from his state's School-to-Work management agency. He said:

North Dakota's STW plan calls for developing career portfolios for each pupil

" containing notations of skills, hobbies, talents, and personal goals, as well

as records of work experiences, inter and extra curricula activities, training

programs and significant accomplishments. The state is to train teachers in

implementing portfolios, which will be " sources of information for future

employers. " Essentially, these all-inclusive files will follow an individual

throughout life. (See Chapter 7)

The STW portfolio system Hagen mentioned is to be stored ultimately in an

electronic file available for access by prospective employers. Hagen said, " Kids

make lots of mistakes growing up and maturing. These mistakes don't need to be

recorded to haunt them the rest of their lives. " This is particularly dangerous

when designations of " mental disorder " are made so schools can be reimbursed for

treating a reading problem. Hagen added that permanent records should only

contain objective material and not subjective judgments made by teachers or

counselors at some point during twelve years of schooling. Genevieve Young, who

investigated the problem for the Center on Exempt Organization Responsibility

confirmed the problem. She said:

Children can now be labeled in permanent records for life, with physical and

mental disorders identified by school personnel.(4)

The term " mental disorder " means different things to different people. What do

the mental health " experts " who apply the label mean? Listen to the words of Dr.

G. Brock Chisolm, first head of the World Federation of Mental Health. Later he

became head of the World Health Organization of the United Nations. His address,

sponsored by the Alanson White Psychiatric Foundation, was delivered in

October 1945, in Washington, DC, to a large group of psychiatrists and

high-government officials. Chisolm said:

What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of

which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing these

perversions is morality--the concept of right and wrong. The re-interpretation

and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are the belated

objectives of nearly all psychotherapy.

If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must

be psychiatrists who take the original responsibility.

(5)

Anticipating an objection, Chisolm added:

The pretense is made that to do away with right and wrong would produce

uncivilized people, immorality, lawlessness, and social chaos. The fact is that

most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respected people have escaped

from moral chains and are able to think freely.

Fifty years after Chisolm made those " mental health " pronouncements, society is

plagued by " uncivilized people, immorality, lawlessness and social chaos. "

Chisolm had been obsessed for years with the idea that instilling concepts of

right and wrong, love of country, and morality in children by their parents is

the paramount evil. In another speech, he said:

The people who have been taught to believe whatever they were told by their

parents or their teachers are the people who are the menace to the world.(6)

It was this same concept which Harvard psychiatry professor Chester Pierce

enunciated at the Childhood International Seminar in 1973 in Denver. As has

already been quoted in Chapter 4 Pierce told educators:

Every child in America entering school at the age of 5 is mentally ill because

he comes to school with certain allegiances to our founding fathers, toward our

elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being,

and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It's up to you

as teachers to make all these sick children well--by creating the international

child of the future.

That's what will result from in-school mental health programs, the " behavior

modification cycle of OBE, the Medicaid-financed programs for " at-risk "

students, School-to-Work, multi-culturalism, diversity training and the

NEA-promoted counseling sessions. They all contribute to " creating the

international child of the future. "

Drs. Chisolm and Pierce cannot be written off as " two isolated crackpots. " After

expressing these views widely and frequently fifty years ago, Chisolm became

head of the World Federation of Mental Health and the World Health Organization.

Is it any wonder that Chisolm's appointment as head of the World Health

Organization was warmly sponsored by his friend, the communist spy, Alger

Hiss?(7) As detailed in the Mental Health chapter in None Dare Call It

Treason--25 YEARS LATER, other psychiatrists and psychologists have similar

views, officially expressed.

How did the Chisolms and the other experts hope to achieve control over

Americans they say need " care " ? Chisolm provided the answer:

We may begin to speculate on the advisability that psychiatrists, once the

necessary one, two, or three million are available should be trained as salesmen

and be taught all the techniques of breaking down sales resistance.(8)

The growing field of " school counselors " is filling the " need. " Even counselors

with sound beliefs, those who recognize that most mental health " problems " are

rooted in spiritual needs that cannot by law give truly troubled students real

answers.

The two drastic changes made in Title I and Medicaid guidelines broaden the

definitions of what " treatments " can " earn " reimbursements under the two federal

programs. Waivers are the third factor which has allowed government-sponsored

in-school mental health treatments to be imposed on hundreds of thousands of

school students. Waivers have been a key factor in the medicalization of schools

without the approval of Congress or state legislatures. Representative Rohrer's

committee learned how it works. He said:

It's a bureaucracy to bureaucracy transaction. Simply have the state

exectutive branch and Department of Welfare apply to the [federal] Health Care

Finance Administration and waivers will be granted. Once granted these waivers

allow all types of things to occur.

There is a major problem with waivers...the very purpose of waivers is to

allow that which is not permitted by law.(9)

The federal Government Accounting Office (GAO) pointed up the danger of waivers

in testimony presented to the Congressional Committee on the Budget on April 4,

1995. The testimony was:

...allowing the waiver process to be used to expand coverage to hundreds of

thousands of additional individuals without the consultation and concurrence of

Congress appears inappropriate. The result of these waivers could lead to a

heavier financial burden on the federal government.

The states are impacted as well because all Medicaid money must be matched on

some basis by the state. That's what alerted the Pennsylvania legislature to

what was happening in the Keystone state. From 1994 to 1995, the proposed budget

jumped Medicaid expenses from about $10-million to $65-million. That prompted

the legislature to authorize its year-long investigation.

Dr. Jane M. Orient, MD, practices internal medicine and serves as the Executive

Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. While the

general public for the most part has not given much attention to the

" medicalization of the schools " and the growing " mental health treatment " of

students, Dr. Orient writes:

Some attentive parents have been very concerned about the program, especially

when they perceive that certain aspects have been deliberately concealed.

Surveys asking intrusive psychological questions have been done without parental

consent... The " consent " process for the school-based clinics may really be just

notification, at best, or an attempt at notification of possible treatment. If a

permission slip is sent home and placed in the student's file, and a refusal is

not returned within seven days, treatment is deemed to be " authorized. " There is

not even a requirement to show that the form actually arrived at the student's

home. Parents need not be notified if treatment (e.g. psychotherapy) is actually

rendered, and Medicaid does not send them an Explanation of Benefits form.(10)

No restrictions are placed on the treatment except that it must be " deemed

advisable or necessary by the student's examining or attending physicians and/or

other professional employees at the hospital.(11)

Dr. Orient added, " Treatment may be prescribed, not only for students who are

'at risk' for substance abuse, suicide, antisocial behavior, etc. but also for

those who are 'at risk of being at risk.' " (12)

What can concerned parents do? How can they determine whether the school

district which their children or grandchildren attend is providing " treatment "

for conditions designated as " mental health disorders " so they can qualify for

Medicaid reimbursement? One concerned Pennsylvania parent suggested a series of

questions, including:

Has your school obtained " partial hospitalization provider status " and/or a

Medicaid provider number? Does your school counsel students in group therapy

type sessions where family and personal matters are discussed? Do intrusive

personality " tests " ask personal questions which may induce insecurity or

undermine family relationships and values? Does your school have a procedure for

labeling students " at risk " or " at risk of being at risk " because of certain

things in their backgrounds or attitudes? Does your school have anger management

or conflict resolution lessons? Who is paying for these programs in your school?

Those questions are appropriate and need to be asked. Pennsylvania, Illinois,

Missouri, Connecticut and Kentucky have all been shown to be involved in the

medicalization of their schools. They are not alone. Medicaid funds are now

available to any state wishing to tap into them. The questions need to be asked

whether children are in public or private schools. In some states like Missouri

even parochial schools have obtained Medicaid status for their school-based

clinics.(13)

It's all part of a back door approach to a universal national health care

system. Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act from the Hillary

Clinton White House Health Care Inter-Departmental Working Group show the

connections. Even before Congress, under massive pressure from across America,

killed the Clinton proposals for a socialized universal health care plan for all

Americans plans had been made to institute the plan piecemeal starting with

children.(14) School-based clinics financed by making children from higher and

higher income families eligible for Medicaid was the key. It is being done now.

Notes

1.. Rohrer, EDUCATION REPORTER, November 1997, pg.3

2.. Final Report, pg. 18

3.. Rohrer, Speech, The Modern Child Text, pg. 9-10, Eagle Forum 1997 National

Leadership Conference, St. Louis

4.. Young, EDUCATION REPORTER, January 1997

5.. Chisolm, Psychiatry, February 1946

6.. Speech, Chisolm, Conference on Education, Asilomar, CA 9/11/54

7.. Preface, Conference Proceedings, International Conciliations, March 1948

8.. Psychiatry, February 1946

9.. Rohrer, Medical Sentinel, Vol. 3, Number 1, January/Febuary 1998, pg. 14

10.. Orient, Speech, The Clinton Plan: Entering Through the Back Door, AAPS,

pg. 6

11.. Hearing, Pennsylvania Select House Committee on HR 37, Nov. 30, 1995

12.. Consent form requested from parents of minor students, Central Dauphin

School District, burg, PA, cited by Orient

13.. , Health & Education Reform: Freedom's " Voluntary " Demise, pg.

162-62, 245

14.. Clinton Presidential Records, 44 USC22.31 #1447

..........................

None Dare Call It Education can be purchased from

Liberty Bell Press, Post Office Box 32, Florissant, MO 63032

Or through the WorldNetDaily web site.