Mental Health Screenings for Children

Based on your knowledge of psychology and reading of the following two online articles having to do with providing American school children with mental health screening, write a brief three to four paragraph essay that answers the question:Would you want your child to receive mental health screening, so that if needed, your child would receive treatment for any mental disorder? Go to the following two links as there is a controversy regarding screening children for mental health problems: You need to read the short article(s), and write a three or four paragraph synopsis and personal comment about one of the above article(s) utilizing one of the psychological theories/ perspectives presented in your text, i.e., psychoanalytic theory, behaviorism, cognitive theory, sociocultural theory, and epigenetic systems theory in your reaction to this issue. These are the two articles.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/12/27/mental_screening_for_young_to_begin/

http://www.eagleforum.org/psr/2005/mar05/psrmar05.html