Dr. Karen J. Effrem

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  The best advocate in the State of Minnesota against teenscreen in the schools is Dr. Karen Effrem of Edwatch - www.edwatch.org - Edwatch has a very good e-newsletter for parents who are concerned about their kids.

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  Dr. Karen Effrem of EdWatch identified five different early childhood proposals that are highly objectionable."These are nothing short of a government assault on the minds of our children and a massive takeover of parenting in the state of Minnesota," she said.One example she listed was government setting norms for all children from birth to age five in areas like mental health, gender issues, diversity training, and environmentalism."These have nothing to do with closing the achievement gap," she stated.
  
  Psychiatric screening is another area the groups highlighted.The controversial mental screening program, TeenScreen, has drawn intense public opposition."HF6 simply hides TeenScreen by giving it a generic name to avoid the controversy," stated Effrem, "but the author made it clear that TeenScreen is the program that will be funded.The language is intentionally misleading."

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  Dr. Karen Effrem, a Johns Hopkins-trained pediatrician, researcher and expert on the government's movement toward universal mental health screening, has been sounding the alarm about the dangers of this Big Pharmaceutical movement for years.
  
  She rightly states, "Government sponsored and controlled universal mental health screening, no matter how sweetly wrapped in the fig leaf of parental consent, should never, ever be implemented.
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  Effrem said the program's author admits to an 84 percent false-positive rate. "Any other medical test with that high of a false-positive rate would be laughed out of the room," said Effrem in a March 2 speech, (to be available on DVD at www.edwatch.org).
  
  But "universal" mental health screening programs are already being implemented, many through federal grant programs, in states around the nation, said Effrem. The Florida Strategic Plan for Infant Mental Health Plan's goal is to develop a system to prevent children from birth to age five from developing emotional and behavioral disorders.
  
  "Are we going to put the kids in a bubble" Are the parents becoming breeders and feeders so that the government can provide this mental health nirvana for these children? Effrem asked.
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  It may not take that long; Effrem said some mental health and violence-prevention programs are already labeling children as mentally ill or potentially violent based on political and religious criteria.

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  Dr. Karen Effrem of EdWatch.org testified in Congress that medical literature demonstrates that these medications are often overused, ineffective, have dangerous side effects, and that the "disorders" that they treat are vague social constructs -- that there are many other reasons for behavior and learning disorders that do not require medication.

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  Dr. Karen Effrem of EdWatch.org testified in Congress that medical literature demonstrates that these medications are often overused, ineffective, have dangerous side effects, and that the "disorders" that they treat are vague social constructs -- that there are many other reasons for behavior and learning disorders that do not require medication.

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  Working with EdWatch, Dr. Karen Effrem has charged that "some mental and violence-prevention programs are already labeling children as mentally ill or potentially violent based on political and religious criteria."

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  http://www.stir-crazy.org/?p=60#comment-33 The best advocate in the State of Minnesota against teenscreen in the schools is Dr. Karen Effrem of Edwatch - www.edwatch.org -- Edwatch has a very good e-newsletter for parents who are concerned about their kids.The best advocate in the State of Minnesota against teenscreen in the schools is Dr. Karen Effrem of Edwatch - www.edwatch.org - Edwatch has a very good e-newsletter for parents who are concerned about their kids.

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  Karen Effrem, M.D. has produced a briefing booklet and CD titled "The Dangers of Universal Mental Health Screening.

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  & Dr. Karen Effrem
  
  TeenScreen

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  Published on: 1/25/2005    Last Visited: 3/21/2007  

  & Dr. Karen Effrem
  
  TeenScreen
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  With that said, before making your final decision, please review Dr. Karen Effrem's Talking Points
  
  on Mental Health Initiatives - Problems with Screening and Drugging at http://www.edaction.org/2004/082704.htm.In this letter, I will include the first THREE points referenced verbatim from her letter:

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