The mental stability and treatment of the nation’s school children is being neglected, according to Douglas Nangle, a psychology professor and the director of clinical training in the psychology department at the University of Maine. Nangle is co-editor for the scholarly journal “Education and Treatment of Children,” a collection of reviews and articles on the well-being and successful treatment of schoolchildren.
These reviews are based on school-based programs that have achieved success. These programs include both policy and practical approaches to this study.
Nangle said that there are an average of six to nine million children who have diagnosable mental heath issues but do not receive treatment. “Traditional methods may not be enough,” he said, “so we need to take it to them.”
Nangle expressed the need for more in-school programs to help these students. He also said that there needs to be screening for all of the children, so that children who need this attention can receive a more intensive treatment.
“We need to get this treatment down to the school level,” said Nangle. He said that as an editor of this journal, he brought together issues and resources that will help.
Nangle worked on this project with two other main editors. They gathered reviews and articles from a range of people throughout the world. “We tried to hunt down the best people to do the job,” he said.
The resources presented also reveal a need for other resources to be made available to institute these programs. Nangle is concerned with setting targets and goals for these programs. He is also very aware of the cost that these programs will bring. “It’s easy to throw this at the schools, but we need to be willing and able to provide the backing to do it,” Nangle said.
When asked about the cost of the programs needed in schools to provide treatment, Nangle said, “We need to increase sensitivity to not only the signs of these mental issues, but also bring the community to an understanding of the issues of cost without the necessary treatment.”
The journal’s reviews and articles are drawn from a wide variety of contributors. One of the articles even comes from a scholar located in Australia. “A lot of societies, worldwide, are interested in the whole idea of these programs,” Nangle said.
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