Journal of Psychiatry

Abstract

Exploring medical and educational systems and their impacts on mental health diagnosis and treatment

Lloyd Chip Taylor

Recent work focusing on the importance of neuroscience as it
relates to educational principles has brought into light
significant organizational and systems-based problems that
impact the application of these prinicples among high school
and college age students. These challenges, coupled with the
ever increasing time demands and financial needs of health care
providers in the United States has created an environment
where schools are not adequately equipped to address mental
health concerns and providers are limited in the time and
resources available to treat in the office. Subsequently, ever
increasing numbers of school aged children are being
prescribed medications to treat symptoms that may be an
artifact of the structure of the school day and the structure of
the health care systems in the United States.
This poster presentation seeks to present the argument of the
need to address the aforementioned concerns, especially in light
of the ever increasing mental health difficulties facing high
school and college age children in the United States. It will also
compare and contrast the systems in place in Canada and the
United States to demonstrate strengths and weaknesses.
Emphasis will be placed on diagnoses of ADHD, Anxiety, and
Depression among high school and college aged students. This
presentation will attempt to assimilite work from the Fulbright
experience and subsequent related clinical experiences.