Uh oh. According to the article ''Treating mom?’s depression may help kids'' in today's Dispatch, ''For kids?’ sakes, particularly, we should be very aggressive in treating parents, particularly mothers,'' said Dr. Madhukar Trivedi, a professor of psychiatry at UT Southwestern and co-author of the study. ''The more improved care we can provide to depressed mothers, the more benefit to their children.''
You know what this means - now, for every teen who is screened and tests ''positive'', psychiatrists will get a twofer. It will be safe to assume if a teen is depressed it's caused by the mother, so let's drug them both!
Maybe Pickerington can start screening teens only on Tuesdays, and call them ''Twofer Tuesdays''.
It's noteworthy that Columbia University led this study. Columbia University also started TeenScreen. Conflict of interest, you say? Conflict, smonflict!
Why did they only study mothers, anyway? They say mothers influence their kids' behavior more than dads, but I find that suspicious. I believe it has more to do with the fact that it's easier to manipulate women into drugging themselves ''for the sake of the kids!!!!'' than it is men. Also, women will put up with the sexual side effects of antidepressants far longer than men will, again, for the sake of the kids!!!!!
This article gives parents another excellent reason to reject TeenScreen.
Here's the link to the article. http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/03/22/20060322-A1-01.html
You know what this means - now, for every teen who is screened and tests ''positive'', psychiatrists will get a twofer. It will be safe to assume if a teen is depressed it's caused by the mother, so let's drug them both!
Maybe Pickerington can start screening teens only on Tuesdays, and call them ''Twofer Tuesdays''.
It's noteworthy that Columbia University led this study. Columbia University also started TeenScreen. Conflict of interest, you say? Conflict, smonflict!
Why did they only study mothers, anyway? They say mothers influence their kids' behavior more than dads, but I find that suspicious. I believe it has more to do with the fact that it's easier to manipulate women into drugging themselves ''for the sake of the kids!!!!'' than it is men. Also, women will put up with the sexual side effects of antidepressants far longer than men will, again, for the sake of the kids!!!!!
This article gives parents another excellent reason to reject TeenScreen.
Here's the link to the article. http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/03/22/20060322-A1-01.html
