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Most people are at least vaguely familiar with the behaviorist BF Skinner. If not, he can be looked up. Decades after Pavlov founded CLASSICAL conditioning using dogs(more canine talk in a moment) as his subjects, Skinner founded OPERANT conditioning using other animals, mainly mice. In a nutshell, operant conditioning is behavior modification based on CONTINGENCY, … Read more
Youth mental health has become one of the defining public policy concerns of our time. Anxiety, depression, isolation, and behavioral struggles among children and teenagers are rising, and families across New Hampshire are searching for answers. Governor Kelly Ayotte recently addressed the issue by criticizing Anthem Insurance for not covering certain mental health services for … Read more
Once Again Progressives Deliver The Opposite of What They Advertise
This week, the New Hampshire House Education Policy and Administration Committee heard testimony on whether the state should withdraw from the Multi-Tiered System of Support for Behavior. Some school staff showed up to oppose this legislation and explained how these mental health practices are working well in their schools. But this legislation wouldn’t end that … Read more
What are viable careers for felons convicted of multimillion-dollar fraud schemes after prison is left behind? Moving to NH and establishing oneself as a therapist. The news last week, unfortunately, bears this out. Daniel Thibeault was arrested by the Bow Police Department for the sexual assault of a client. He was a prelicensed therapist practicing … Read more
On 12 September, UK child and adolescent psychiatrist Sami Timimi published “When mental-health diagnoses become brands, the real drivers of our psychic pain are hidden” in the Globe and Mail, a Canadian newspaper. In his superb article, Sami carefully explains how he arrives at his painful conclusion: You see there is a truth that we (in the mental-health business) … Read more
In the classic horror-crime blockbuster, The Silence of the Lambs, the serial killer named Buffalo Bill, for his practice of skinning his victims, was a transgender man. He was skinning his female victims to build himself a body suit. Yes, I know. It’s Hollywood, but we have to talk about what’s happening today. Have you … Read more
Almost one-third of government schools nationwide are now surveilling the mental health of students. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker recently signed a bill to bring “universal mental health screening” to two million Illinois students as part of his Children’s Behavioral Health Transformation Initiative. But this rescue effort will ravage many students and is a warning shot … Read more
Parents or legal guardians are required to fill out a mental health accommodation request form
Public schools are fully engaged in mental health treatment in New Hampshire’s schools. But does any of this actually help children? We now task school counselors and teachers with assessing and treating a child’s mental health while they attend school. There have been numerous problems with this initiative in our schools. We’ve found that some … Read more
This is the conclusion from Lucy Foulkes, who at one time, believed bringing mental health therapies and services into the schools would help students. She is now explaining why mental health services in the schools, are not working: The reality is more sobering. Researchers have now run many studies testing the impact of universal school … Read more
In his recent book, The End of Race Politics, Coleman Hughes writes this: “Mainstream American society isn’t morally confused about white supremacy; it’s an ideology that most Americans reject on moral grounds. By contrast, many Americans are morally confused about neoracism. They’re fooled by the self-proclaimed “anti-racist” label that neo-racists have adopted. That moral confusion makes neoracism … Read more
Questions have long been raised about the possible connection between Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) and violent crimes such as mass shootings at schools. Evidence that these antidepressants can contribute to violent behaviors, including suicide, has not prevented their widespread use – but a new recent Tennessee law may soon change that. The state will … Read more
Toxic household exposures can’t be cured by SSRIs Many media outlets roundly criticized Bobby Kennedy for suggesting SSRIs are harmful to children. Yet scientific evidence increasingly supports that a brain chemical imbalance does not cause depression and that antidepressants are only marginally curative. A recent study now suggests depression may be caused or aggravated by … Read more
It wasn’t that long ago that the Executive Director from the New Hampshire Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers testified before the New Hampshire Senate, and indicated that Social Workers were violating Federal Law: Executive Director Lynn Stanley, from the New Hampshire Chapter National Association of Social Workers, testified before a Senate Judiciary … Read more
Dear Commissioner, Legislators, Executive Councilors, and State Board of Education Members: We are seeing school budgets rising while enrollment declines. Changing the model in public schools to the Community School (CDC’s) model will certainly add to those escalating costs. Turning our schools into mental health facilities has brought a whole new set of problems, and next … Read more
I walked away from mental health when I saw the truth: the field I loved—built on helping people face reality—had morphed into a billing racket, slapping codes on every kid’s cry for a buck. That betrayal hit hard, but nothing stings like watching the American Psychiatric Association (APA), doctors, and Big Pharma push a generation … Read more
I hope taxpayers aren’t covering the cost of admission. The NEA is the largest labor union in the US and, therefore, the largest teachers union, so when the NEA in NH announces a teacher’s conference, you’d be right to wonder what they want teachers to know. If you happen to be a member of the … Read more
Here is my email to Education Commissioner Edelblut and Legislators on the PowerSchool Data Breach: Commissioner Edelblut, PowerSchool, owned by Bain Capital, experienced an international cybersecurity incident that involved unauthorized access to certain PowerSchool SIS customer data. This has impacted many school divisions across North America. PowerSchool is a 5.6 billion dollar company that lost personal … Read more
I have long argued that the cure for what ails our kids is to fix the public schools. High cost and poor outcomes aside, the rise in physical and mental health issues in kids is directly attributable to the ideological capture of public education. The schools made kids sick by forcing them to wear masks. … Read more