Mental Health Adolescents

Mental Health Care for Children and Adolescents Our treatment of children and adolescents with mental health problems will be a candidate for moral rejection if it isn’t already. Without proper treatment, many young people end up with tragic consequences including suicide, substance abuse, involvement in the correctional system and the inability to live independently. If we do not do something now to protect and treat this population, we will only be able to blame ourselves and our future will be appalled that we closed our eyes to our children in the past. In reviewing Anthony Appiah’s criteria, I feel that we have already reached the wrong side of morality and if nothing is done to correct this problem, future generations, will condemn us. The three criteria …show more content…
Second criteria, people must not offer counterarguments, but just “say that is just the way it is.” In mental health care, the purpose is that mental health problems must be considered to be just important as physical health problems. Mental health assessment and care needs to be integrated into all children’s overall healthcare and education programs, however most people just don’t speak up or acknowledge there is a mental health problem with their child due to the stigma behind mental health in this country. Third criteria, is strategic ignorance or avoiding the inevitable truth. The blind eye is so apparent in children and adolescents with mental health problems. Parents do not speak up and ask for assistance because of fear of how they will be perceived as a parent or have no one that will listen or help. Early identification of mental health problems needs to be encouraged in preschools, childcare settings, education systems and health and welfare settings. Individuals working in these programs must be trained and have a strong awareness of the early signs of mental health problems, what