Mental health training for teachers approved

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6. Even if they are not making diagnoses,

this has potential for great harm.

Teachers may spend a great deal of time with students but not in the way that would truly reveal the need for mental health care.

It is one thing to notice 'off behavior', it is quite another to go the next step forward and describe that behavior as indicative of a potential mental health problem. Giving them 'just enough' to be dangerous is what this looks like. I see it more and more in my clinical setting. Patients come in who have read this book or gone to that site. Oh, I am not depressed says one, I just have PTSD. Or, I am just fine, it is just my family that is dysfunction, not me.

Bad can of worms to be opening, but pyschology/psychiatry as I have known it is no longer the same entity.