Just checking, via the CCHR, they have done their best to use scare tactics where psychiatry is concerned to further their agenda at grassroots level and they rarely declare their association. Most people don't even know that they have been influenced by materials produced by sicentology because they keep their name off it for the most part.
The mainstream field of psychiatry somewhat adverse to rushing into labeling adolescents with personality disorders. Mainly because their personalities are still developing.
That doesn't mean they aren't able to pick up on anything that is a cause for concern with a view to keeping tabs and offering some kind of therapy to help the adolescent cope.
What they can also do is have a dig around and see if an adolescent is acting in a certain way because they are mirroring somebody else who does have for example an eating disorder. Or perhaps see if the teen is trying to get a more generalized (even negative) attention because they are unable to communicate (or understand) a specific area where they need their parents to know they are unhappy and not coping.
It is not a given that a label of any kind is the automatic outcome of an evaluation. A lack of a label post evaluation doesn't mean that a root cause won't be uncovered and hopefully resolved.
I understand that some people are convinced that a label in of itself causes damage.
This afternoon while in town I watched the product of parents, who point blank refused a label because they were convinced a label in itself was a bad thing, floundering. Again.
He'll be in prison by the time he is twenty and his education didn't happen because he did not get the support in school that he needed. That poor lost boy is still without help because his parents were\are afraid of a diagnosis. His predicament has been breaking my heart since he was just 12 years old. It was one thing when he was getting into trouble with teachers and the like. Now it is the police and the stakes are so much higher. He may not have a mentalhealth label, but he sure as hell has been assigned the lables "bad", "loser", "waste of space", "will come to nothing" and "hooligan". Is that really so much better for his self esteem and identity ?
I personally have watched too many people, of all ages, suffer terribly due to a lack of a (professionally assigned) label, which meant a lack of help\understanding and surfeit of blame. Because family and the world at large cuts them no slack and assumes they are operating on a level playing field. Those people get labled by people instead of a psche, and the lables are not glowing and postive. Nor are they fair assessment.
When left to flounder "offically label free" to adulthood, it doesn't always end well. And if growing numbers of people and actively encouraged to avoid even consider an initial appointment with psych because they are terrified ..........
1 - a label is unavoidable because the field is just desperate to slap a word on everybody that passes through their doors
2 - that a label, in its own right, will devastate their child
..............that will result in an awful lot of young people falling through the cracks.
I have a feeling that label rejection is in some part potentially another manifestation of the stigma people place on MH issues. The last bastion of discrimination against people with a disability. Nobody would act like a label of cerebral palsy or spina bifida could in some way incapacitate themselves or their child to function to the best of their ability. But put the possibility of a mental health label on the table and all the disinfected bargepoles come out.
Not helped by the Scientologists with "the mentalists".