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Most Teen Mental Health Problems Go Untreated
A Duke University review of a survey involving more than 10,000 American teenagers reveals that more than half of adolescents with psychiatric disorders receive no treatment of any sort.
Moreover, when treatment does occur, the providers are rarely mental health specialists, said Dr. E. Jane Costello, a Duke University professor of psychology and epidemiology, the study leader.
The countrys mental health system has come under scrutiny in recent years following a string of mass shootings in which mental illness seems to have played a role.
In many cases, care was provided by pediatricians, school counselors or probation officers rather than by people with specialized mental health training. There simply are not enough qualified child mental health professionals to go around, Costello said.
We need to train more child psychiatrists in this country, Costello said. And those individuals need to be used strategically, as consultants to the school counselors and others who do the lions share of the work.
The study draws on data from the National Comorbidity Survey Adolescent Supplement, a nationally representative face-to-face survey of 10,148 adolescents between the ages of 13 and 17.
Source: Duke University
I am trying to see the point here. The fact that ALL of the mass shootings involve a person on an antidepressant PRESCRIBED to them by a doctor means nothing?
I am cynical enough to understand that many of these studies are actually funded by the pharmaceutical companies themselves.
How about the number of psychiatrists who are warning us about the potential side effects. Many of these doctors do indeed receive kickbacks in a number of ways.
Again, it is a billion dollar industry.
It is not...SOME incidents have involved a person antidepressants. ALL OF THEM have involved it. The simple fact that no major news network is even hinting at the angle, and the fact these pharmaceutical companies spend millions advertising on these networks is lost on you?