What E. Hyman said about screening kids for mental illness.....

[Guest guest]

--- E. Hyman, a former director of the National Institute of

Mental Health and now provost at Harvard University, said he favors

developing screening questionnaires and treatments for children to

reduce the number of suicides, but he is skeptical that such tools

currently exist.

" By and large, brief diagnostic tests -- especially doing broad

screening in children -- are not well validated, and one has to be

concerned about missing real illness or, conversely, interpreting

transient life troubles as a mental illness requiring intervention, "

Hyman said.----

FROM:

Suicide-Risk Tests for Teens Debated

By Shankar Vedantam

Washington Post Staff Writer

Friday, June 16, 2006; Page A03

http://www.psychsearch.net/news/061606.pdf

[Guest guest]

--- E. Hyman, a former director of the National Institute of

Mental Health and now provost at Harvard University, said he favors

developing screening questionnaires and treatments for children to

reduce the number of suicides, but he is skeptical that such tools

currently exist.

" By and large, brief diagnostic tests -- especially doing broad

screening in children -- are not well validated, and one has to be

concerned about missing real illness or, conversely, interpreting

transient life troubles as a mental illness requiring intervention, "

Hyman said.----

FROM:

Suicide-Risk Tests for Teens Debated

By Shankar Vedantam

Washington Post Staff Writer

Friday, June 16, 2006; Page A03

http://www.psychsearch.net/news/061606.pdf

[Guest guest]

--- E. Hyman, a former director of the National Institute of

Mental Health and now provost at Harvard University, said he favors

developing screening questionnaires and treatments for children to

reduce the number of suicides, but he is skeptical that such tools

currently exist.

" By and large, brief diagnostic tests -- especially doing broad

screening in children -- are not well validated, and one has to be

concerned about missing real illness or, conversely, interpreting

transient life troubles as a mental illness requiring intervention, "

Hyman said.----

FROM:

Suicide-Risk Tests for Teens Debated

By Shankar Vedantam

Washington Post Staff Writer

Friday, June 16, 2006; Page A03

http://www.psychsearch.net/news/061606.pdf

[Guest guest]

--- E. Hyman, a former director of the National Institute of

Mental Health and now provost at Harvard University, said he favors

developing screening questionnaires and treatments for children to

reduce the number of suicides, but he is skeptical that such tools

currently exist.

" By and large, brief diagnostic tests -- especially doing broad

screening in children -- are not well validated, and one has to be

concerned about missing real illness or, conversely, interpreting

transient life troubles as a mental illness requiring intervention, "

Hyman said.----

FROM:

Suicide-Risk Tests for Teens Debated

By Shankar Vedantam

Washington Post Staff Writer

Friday, June 16, 2006; Page A03

http://www.psychsearch.net/news/061606.pdf