US teenager's parents sue school over depression screening test

doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7519.714-a

BMJ 2005;331:714 (1 October), doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7519.714-a

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US teenager's parents sue school over depression screening test

Jeanne Lenzer

New York

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The parents of an Indiana teenager have filed a suit in a federalcourt in the state's Northern District, charging that schoolofficials violated their privacy rights and parental rightsby subjecting their daughter to a mental health screening examinationwithout their permission.

The suit is seen as significant because President Bush has promoteda controversial plan to encourage widespread mental health screeningfor people "of all ages" in the United States ( BMJ 2004;328;1458[Free Full Text]).

The screening programme at the centre of the legal suit, TeenScreen,was endorsed as a "model" programme by President Bush's NewFreedom Commission on Mental Health.

The complaint, filed on 19 September, charges that in December2004 Chelsea Rhoades, then a 15 year old student at Penn HighSchool, Mishawaka, was told after she took the TeenScreen examinationthat she had obsessive compulsive disorder and social anxietydisorder.

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