Most often teens have psychiatric problems that are not recognized by anyone, children spend around nine hundred to one thousand hours in school per year (Time in School: How Does the U.S. Compare) leaving teachers and staff to be with them usually. Allowing screening to happen at schools would allow staff to also be on the lookout for mentally ill students who need help but do not say anything and be more aware of what students may need a little more help. Numerous amounts teens have psychiatric problems that arent recognized by adults (Klass), screening for mental health illness will allow each adult to have a slight knowledge of what looking for mental illness looks like between depression, anxiety, ADHD, eating disorders and many more due to them being told what the signs are looking for each. The people that could notice first a difference in a student are teachers and staff because they have extended contact with the children on a daily basis, they are in the best position to recognize early patterns of their behavior. Teachers deal with these kids constantly and they would start recognizing changes in their students and can watch them. Allowing schools screening is a perfect atmosphere for the students to take the questionnaire because they already use to it. Screening in schools provide a unique opportunity that treats and identifies mental health conditions by serving teens where they already are (Nami). By serving teens the questionnaire where they already are m
eans that parents dont have to take time out of there days to take them to the doctors.
Screening children benefits them and helps them get the care they need and improves education and behavior. Allowing children to be screened at young ages helps improve their future because the can get the help they need from early age they can start showing signs as early as eleven years old (Eunjung Cha) and is when they should start being checked for any mental illnesses. Richard J. Chung, an assistant professor at Duke says, Screening for mental health illnesses during adolescence enables healthcare providers to catch the problems early and to start treatment which results in great benefits for the children (Noonan). Catching the problems early will help the children that end up diagnosed with a mental illness get the help they need early on in life than waiting until they are older and struggling more. It will help benefit their future. Access to care reduces barriers to learning and improves educational, behavioral and health. Getting the mental help, they need at a young age they will prosper more in education, behavior and health because they will know how to better deal with the problems they are having in different situations. People diagnosed with a mental illness has shown signs five to ten years prior to diagnosis (Bruemmer). Which when screening children in schools could be caught at a young age before their diagnosis starting to make their daily life tasks more difficult.