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The American population is today appreciative of the fact that mental illness is a present issue in the society. As such, there is a need for proposals that will allow a change in the management of mental health care (Wyman, 2015). In particular, Connecticut was the center of a recent incident in which a troubled lad opened fire on unsuspecting students in Newton. The reaction to the shooting in Newton has elicited growing concerns about the mental health status in Connecticut especially regarding the young people.

In the course of proper identification, evaluation, and treatment, children and adolescents suffering with mental illness can conduct positive, normal lives. Nevertheless, the devastating majority of children with mental illnesses are unsuccessfully identified and the lack of treatment or support services have led to a subordinate worth of life and violence. The Mental Health Awareness and Improvement Act of 2013 (S. 689) is an inclusive bill proposed to address the extensive issue of mental health. By strongly considering the United States’ struggle against mental illness and school violence, as well as utilizing theoretical constructs to examine the Senate’s bill, a social worker can develop a more holistic perspective that can productively integrate practical insights reached from a variety of different points of view.

Hall, MD Ryan Chaloner Winton and Susan Hatters Friedman, MD. “Guns, Schools, and Mental Illness:

“Nearly 5 million children in the U.S. have some type of mental illness” (Goldberg). It is agreeable that there are many young children that deal with mental illness every day. Schools should be concerned for every student’s well being. Moreover, mental health is a part of a person’s overall “well being.” Therefore, schools need to make the mental health of students a stronger focus and implement plans to keep students mentally well and educated. To help create a positive, mental health aware environment where students feel open to seek help, high school students should be educated on how to be mentally healthy, be given a safe place to seek help, and be encouraged to monitor and maintain their mental health. Mental illness and mental health care need to be a more eminent priority in our society, starting with high schools.

The second solution to helping with the issue of mental illness is being aware and actually caring for the safety and mental state of each and every student. Make sure each student is treated fairly and feels safe to tell someone about their issue and not feel like they would be kicked out of school or lose scholarships because of it. The school doesn’t need to worry about getting sued or having a student at risk. They just need to make sure that student that are paying thousands of dollars a year is getting the treatment they need to get

The National Institute of Mental Health has dedicated itself to mental health issues across the board since 1946 when President Harry Truman put the National Mental Health Act in place. This government program has developed to become a huge organization in concurrence ingwith the issues of mental illnesses.The National Institute of Mental health also known as NIMH Has an excellent mission statement,which is "The mission of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is to transform the understanding and treatment of mental illnesses through basic and clinical research, paving the way for prevention, recovery, and cure."(NIMH, year last updated?).Their site for Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder is top notch. It is easy to navigate through and has an excellent navigational menu. Good!

Mental health of children is important for their overall health, development and academic performance in the school. The Springfield City School District has made it mandatory to submit mental health evaluation report as a part of the application for admission in the schools starting 2018. The school has started a Mental Health Unit and will be providing consultation and referrals for all the children. At our schools, we intend to promote physical as well as mental health of the children, teachers and the staff. With the collaborated efforts of the students,

Peter Bruun & Sharon Strauss will share insight about mental illness in schools at What Every School Needs to Know event

I propose a module about mental health, a topic that I’ve been passionate about for years. Lead’s mission is to foster social awareness, and civic engagement. This topic fits this mission statement by creating social awareness about a topic that affects 1 in 5 teenagers, and is the third highest cause of death for teenagers. Mental illness is highly important to me because I have experienced what happens when someone’s illness takes them too far. I’ve advocated for awareness ever since my friend committed suicide in eighth grade. It can be incorporated into the CORE curriculum quite easily, as a separate module. It aligns well with other topics taught in CORE including psychodynamics and gender, because the psychodynamic can be assessed in

To follow the legislation outlined above, schools have implemented self-esteem programs to attempt to provide mental health services and education to all students. The following two studies are only samples of the countless research done on the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of self-esteem programs in schools. The purpose of this paper is not to argue whether the self-esteem programs both outlined here and elsewhere still have a place in schools today. The goal, rather, is to provide information from previous research on alternative and additional measures that teachers can implement that fill in the gaps left by the self-esteem-focused and other mental well-being programs in their classrooms so that they may effectively carry out the regulations stated under Section 504 and IDEA 2004. The focus will be especially on students that are at risk of developing emotional disorders or are already diagnosed, specifically with mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and childhood-onset schizophrenia.

Self-esteem can change over time and between situations. Maintaining a healthy sense of self-esteem is something many people struggle with. It can be especially hard for students, because they are surrounded by different kinds of students who are smart or artistic or athletically gifted or beautiful or whose lives seem like they are so easy.

A teacher from each school knew of the research measures. School approval and parental consent were obtained prior to the study. Participation was voluntary and confidential. They could withhold information and could withdraw at any time. 1,372 students agreed to participate. Non-Caucasian and different ethnic groups were left out since there were very few. 1,305 of the 1,340 students successfully completed the measures on self-image and social anxiety (2).

The mental health industry has dealt with several changes in the past decade. The 1999 shooting at Columbine high school and the 2007 shooting on the campus of Virginia Tech (Chen, Purdie-Vaughns, Phelan, Gary & Yang, 2015), have created a legislative agenda for law makers hoping to address the mental health issues that face many Americans today. These issues have created awareness in the mental health industry, but mental health is often one of the first programs to experience budget cuts, since lawmakers want jails, schools, and hospitals funded as a priority item. These cuts create balancing acts for mental health managers trying to establish a service budget and create new staff hiring’s. There is little competition in the community

On February 14, 2018, an armed 19-year-old entered a public Florida high school, opened fire, and killed 17 innocent people. Unfortunately, this is nowhere near an isolated event—there have been 18 school shootings alone since 2018 started 6 weeks ago. Congress, those in the public eye, and just about everyone with access to some form of social media were quick to assign blame—some to poor school safety, some to the unbelievably easy process for buying a gun, and some to mental illness. Assigning blame to mental illness for traumatic event such as these can have highly detrimental effects and may cause more damage than help.

First, it affects the performance of the health care by increasing service demand since most of mental disorders require complex intervention. Besides, the treatment of these numerous disorders will bring in a strain within the health care center, thus declining the health services efficiency. Moreover, it results in crowding-out affects within the hospitals as some patients with severe mental disorders will need to stay longer in the hospital. Consequently, this creates more demand for hospital beds and related services. Mental illness increases health care expenditure since hospitals incurs extra cost in hiring therapist, psychiatrist, etc. (Olesen et al., 2012). Besides, the health systems suffer more cost in organizing awareness campaigns. On the other hand, the CDC is working collaboratively with other organizations such as Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), National Institute of Health, and Behavioral Surveillance System among others to establish a comprehensive national surveillance of mental illnesses. Consequently, the organization recommends an increased monitoring and management of anxiety disorders across all agencies through the United States (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,