{"id":5809,"date":"2026-08-12T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=5809"},"modified":"2026-08-12T12:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T17:33:14","slug":"schools-are-pushing-mental-health-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2026\/08\/12\/schools-are-pushing-mental-health-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools Are Pushing Mental Health Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Research Shows It Does More Harm Than Good<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A recent (July 30, 2026) article by Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D. in The Defender<\/em><\/a> published by Children’s Health Defense takes up the question of mental health screening in schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“An increasing number of children are likely to face mental health screening when they return to school this fall. But experts warned those screenings pose more risk than benefit \u2014 and urged parents to opt out their child.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Nearly one-third of U.S. schools now conduct some form of mental health screening \u2014 and that number is likely to increase, as more states work to pass mental health screening mandates.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The article references Citizens Commission on Human Rights:
“Some schools may use a passive consent system that presumes consent unless the parent actively opts out, said Jan Eastgate, president of Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a mental health industry watchdog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“That\u2019s why CCHR created a printable parent\u2019s exemption form<\/a> that parents can proactively give to their school leaders. The form states that school staff may not subject the child to any form of mental health, psychological, social service, or counseling screening or tests without the parent\u2019s written consent.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mental health screening based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders<\/a><\/em> (DSM) and the International Classification of Disease (ICD) \u2014a key international psychiatry strategy\u2014is a major situation right now that not only is the means by which psychiatry and pharmaceutical companies drum up new business, it is a major threat to the civil liberties and freedoms of all those in the U.S. and elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mental health screening aims to get whole populations on drugs and thus under control. The kinds of drugs used create further medical and social problems, and these subsequent complications require additional taxes and laws to handle them. The net result is a sick and fearful population dependent on the government to \u201csolve\u201d all their problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[See The History of Mental Health Screening<\/a><\/em> here.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recognize that the real problem is that psychiatrists fraudulently diagnose life’s problems as an “illness”, and stigmatize unwanted behavior or study problems as “diseases.” Psychiatry’s stigmatizing labels, programs and treatments are harmful junk science; their diagnoses of “mental disorders” are a hoax – unscientific, fraudulent and harmful. All psychiatric treatments, not just psychiatric drugs, are dangerous, and can cause crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatric institutions, and other medical doctors prescribing psychiatric drugs and treatments must be made fully accountable for their funding, practices and treatments, and their results, or lack thereof — including prescribing antidepressants whose only results are harmful side effects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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