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Pediatricians: Children of Military Struggle with Mental Disorders
The Truth Behind The News
Susanne Posel
Occupy Corporatism
May 29, 2013
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released a study entitled, “Motor Delays: Early Identification and Evaluation”, which focused on the children of military families that claims they are at risk for higher rates of behavioral and emotional problems.
Therapists and pediatric specialists noticed that there were delays in the development of motor skills in children of military families. The screenings were conducted on children as young as 30 months and as old as 18.
Researchers found that 1 in 4 children belonging to a military family with an active duty member displayed signs of depression. One out of three children was prone to excessive worry. Sleep disturbances were common place as 1 in 2 had insomnia.
Parents were advised to confer with pediatricians and healthcare professionals to determine in their child were at risk for developmental problems. Should the child be diagnosed with a mental disorder, early intervention and educational resources would be provided to the parents.
Dr. Thomas McInerny, president of AAP suggested: “Whenever your child is going through a major life change, it’s important to consider his or her mental health and general well-being.”
The AAP provided symptoms parents should be looking out for:
• If the child is going off to college and would be separated from the immediate family for the first time
• If the child has a previous mental diagnosis
• Contact the child’s pediatrician for advice
• Keep close eye on the child and monitor their academic and social activities
• If the child suddenly takes up drinking alcohol or abusing illegal substances
• If the child is living at home while working
• Monitor all sexual behavior child demonstrates; including knowing who their mates are to avoid potentially poor choices with life-changing results
It is assumed that 20% of children of military families have poor coping skills, preform badly in school; yet are fiercely independent.
Dr. Carla Allan commented : “In some families, this can really be a perfect storm for mental health issues. We know that a number of these families do well, and many children go on to develop very healthy coping skills. But there are some families that are at risk for developing coping difficulties, a result that is influenced by the child’s temperament. Children we are more anxious, or reactive, are more likely to have difficulties.”
Dr Beth Ellen Davis, co-author of the study said : “This is guidance (for the providers), but it is the first of its kind. I could think of no better way to honor our service members than to help providers take care of their children.”
Davis continued: “When a parent goes away to war, the common typical response is that all children experience stress around that. Most children adjust after a short period of time.”
Directing parents to pediatricians, Davis claims “they are the parent’s first line of defense.”
Researchers for the study warn that “maladaptive parental coping or distress may be the single most important predictor of child biopsychosocial symptoms during stressful situations, such as wartime deployment.”
Last year, Obama signed an executive order (EO) entitled, “Improving Access to Mental Health Services for Veterans, Service Members, and Military Families” with the supposed focus on strengthening “support for the emotional and mental health needs of our service members and their families.”
In this EO, Obama takes control over the evaluation of the mental health of our returning service men and women by providing US government controlled “effective mental health services for veterans, service members, and their families.”
Obama is authorizing the coordination of the Departments of Veterans and the Department of Defense (DoD), as well as the Departments of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Defense to “transition” veterans back into “civilian life”.
Keeping in line with touting all veterans as mentally defective, substance abusers and suicidal, Obama demands that the VA and the DoD collaborate to provide proactive measures and a psychiatric pre-screen of returning service men and women to prevent erratic behavior. The DoD will “review all existing mental health and substance abuse prevention, education and outreach programs” within the military services and access their effectiveness.
During a private “roundtable” discussion at Fort Bliss in Texas, Obama met with members of the military and addressed active duty troops. The Obama administration’s focus is on identifying and “providing additional support” to soldiers who have been diagnosed with “post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injuries (TBI)”.
Previously, the DoD have come out publicly to state that US veterans suffering from TBI and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) are considered potentially violent and dangerous.
Doctors for the DoD claim CTE is an incurable disease soldiers may develop after having injured their brain in battle. CTE is explained as causing large bursts of anger and depression while having their vital motor skills and memory impacted; as well as being degenerative of whose effects can manifest themselves days, months or years after the initial trauma.
The DoD is tracking soldiers diagnosed with TBI/CTE because, according to the US government agency, they may display personality changes that could come on without warning and effect their ability to acclimate back into American society.
At Fort Detrick and Fort Bragg, in conjunction with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the US military is conducting clinical trials on 2,000 solders to create a medical screen to detect a person’s propensity toward TBI/CTE by measuring biomarkers.
The Obama administration devised a report in 2011 entitled “Strengthening Our Military Families” that focuses on the mental stability of our US service men and women. It questions whether or not their exposure to battlefield conditions, TBI/CTE, and diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (PSTD) is causing them to be a potential danger to society. Hidden under bureaucracy of promising to develop governmental systems to aid veterans, the document is directed at identifying all veteran’s potential to become mentally incapacitated due to some psychiatric disorder which would cause them to become violent, depressed, aggressive and inevitably dangerous to society.
The EO also allocates the US government-sponsored use of local community mental health clinics, community health centers, substance abuse treatment facilities, and rural health clinics to assist the DoD in identifying veterans who may be suffering from mental illness and would therefore have federal agencies working with private sector health providers to ensure veterans get the psychiatric help they need in “a timely way”. Obama has ordered 15 “pilot projects” to be established to create an integrated mental health system wherein the DoD would have complete oversight. The DoD would also be at the liberty of defining the parameters of the objective need of mental healthcare of veterans.
The Secretary of Veterans Affairs (SVA) will employ 800 peer counselors by 2013 that will be controlled and disseminated by the DoD under directives of the SVA. Collaborative tools and monetary oversight will remain with the SVA as an estimate 1,600 mental healthcare workers is expected to be needed to deal with the issue of mentally ill veterans nationally.
A National Research Action Plan will be established by May of 2013 that will be sponsored by the US government to use biomarkers for “early diagnosis and treatment” of veterans who tested positive for a propensity toward TBI/CTE. Obama wants to integrate electronic data sharing of information about veterans and their predetermined mental status between federal agencies, academia and state-sponsored research facilities to create pharmaceutical and psychiatric answers to this supposed burgeoning problem.
The goal of the Obama administration is to devise a “comprehensive longitudinal mental health study with an emphasis on PTSD, TBI, and related injuries” to identify mental health issues in veterans and enroll veterans in a long-term plan coordinated with the Department of Veteran Affairs which will be directed by the DoD.
The creation of a Task Force to advise Obama on how to deal with mental illness and veterans will be established within 180 days of the EO. This Task Force will alone define specific goals on how to best combat veterans alleged fall into mental illness with specific regard to TBI/CTE and post-traumatic stress disorder (PSTD).
The US government’s goal is to identify these veterans and label them with a progressive, unstable and degenerative disease so that they can refer them to mental hospitals for further evaluation and/or admittance.
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