Mental Health in Schools Act
Posted on 18/02/2011 | 3 Comments
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This is a great set of comments and rings very true.
I totally agree that scientists (just like everyone else) have their biases and foibles. After all, scientists are human beings too! But science is different than scientists.
The scientific method is the most objective frame that we have by which to evaluate and predict. Science is not about finding truth. It is only about being less wrong most of the time. The scientific method (experimental design and mathematics) gives us the ability to test what we believe. The scientific method is not used to prove something is correct, on the contrary, the scientific method is designed to prove that something is not correct! It is designed to test what is called the “null hypothesis”. It takes ideas that come out of left field (or wherever else they come from) and puts those ideas to an independent test.
t does not drive our beliefs. It does however challenge our beliefs. In that way it is self-correcting. Of course scientific inquiry and understanding lives within a wider social context. That is one of the great features of science.
But gravity is gravity, social context notwithstanding. And thus it is nasty, brutish and long. As Brecht said, (something like this) - the purpose of science is to save us from everlasting error.
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John Lickun said...
As a non professional who worked for years in a top mental health rehabilitation facility (FH) in northern new jersey and interacted with another dozen mental health facilities throughout in new jersey I saw the good the bad and the ugly? Years of observations saw much ugliness and because the professional staff was in their offices doing bureaucratic paper work seventy five percent of the time they lost reality concerning the clients? Now you want to get children involved with the mental health industry, think twice before you want to subject young children to a lifetime of experimentation and pain and suffering and false hope and then suicide?
Comment made on February 22nd, 2011
Michelle said...
This bill has so much potential, but I do have my concerns about how effective it could be as there is a great amount of disparity among the states and their mental healths services. For instance, in my own home state of Georgia, which has an underdeveloped mental health system there were over 100 cases of patients dying in state run health care facilities, if the state cannot provide basic and safe care for the most needing populations at this point how could it help the adolescent population without a complete overhaul of the system? Top down processes sometimes overlook the specific needs or cultural of certain adolescent populations, I also would hope this bill would give each individual state some flexibility in their implementation models.
Comment made on March 10th, 2011
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Comment made on October 23rd, 2011
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