Penetration

I mentioned on a different blog about the New Freedom Act and how it aims to test all children attending school for mental illness. There is a concept that the government calls Penetration. Penetration is about the Community Mental Health Agencies attempting to recruit more children to receive mental health services by expert observation and coercion. The Community Mental Health Agencies get funded for how many children who are deemed to be "in need" of mental health services actually receive those services. Therefore, there is pressure for these agencies to enroll children into their services. This can lead to pressuring parents to get their children enrolled in services. This forced service doctrine can have some detrimental effects. The parents can be coerced by the schools and agencies to get served. This mental health system still believes in denial and resistance while using some forceful techniques to sweep parents and their children up in the the medical model that dominates our society. Any alternative approach may be viewed as disatrous to the funding of the Community Mental Health Agencies. I strongly encourage parents to actively scrutinze the system and get to really know your rights. The Community Mental Health Agencies may get offended and add pressure but ultimately you still have a lot of control over what happens with your child.

Chocolate Cake

The name of this blog is Chocolate Cake due to the perks that psychiatrists get from the pharmaceutical companies. I noticed this beautiful chocolate cake, along with a wonderful spread of food, for the psychiatrist from a pharmaceutical representative this has been a continous perk. I told the psychiatrists nurse that I was amazed that they all were not overweight from getting so much food. The nurse informed me that it was an agency rule that they could only get a pharmaceutical buffet two times per month, otherwise they would be eating very good lunches all the time. Once in awhile, the rest of the staff gets a meal deal along with a lecture on some sort of topic related to the pharmaceutical companies agenda. I am sure that they have done studies on how to get people to use their product and meals seem to be a good way to package it. However they do not stop with food. They have fancy ink pens, clipboards, tissue, clocks, and even soap. Our offices are filled with medication paraphenillia. So the next time you visit your local psychiatrist you might take a look around his office and ask him how the perks influences his choices of medication that you get prescribed.