It is difficult to take seriously the critique of school based mental health screening, when the linked article itself points out that the screenings have the same goal as a community education effort (to prompt proper assessments), and includes such concerningly-misdirected criticisms as “Universal school-based prevention programs (non-formal screening) also fail to reduce incidence of mental disorders or improve anxiety and depression”—when neither reduction of incidence nor treatment is the purpose of such an assessment.
It is difficult to take seriously the critique of school based mental health screening, when the linked article itself points out that the screenings have the same goal as a community education effort (to prompt proper assessments), and includes such concerningly-misdirected criticisms as “Universal school-based prevention programs (non-formal screening) also fail to reduce incidence of mental disorders or improve anxiety and depression”—when neither reduction of incidence nor treatment is the purpose of such an assessment.