TheLegalProcess (v3.0 | Instruction Not Therapy)
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Refugee of the People’s Republic of Seattle | Now in Scottsdale AZ | Corporate lawyer, but not: legal advice | your lawyer | or attorney advertising.
@milehijules Same. Daughter was in a HS fine arts program, went to student showing and felt the (IMO, forced, unauthentic) angst oozing from the exhibits. Naturally their works were praised. The sicker the exhibit, the more the adoring swooning. Zero artistic value,
📁 Oxford’s Lucy Foulkes New Paper: Mental health *awareness* campaigns, like those in schools, are NOT harmless: •Mental health awareness messages can “infect” people — they “catch” ideas about symptoms and diagnosis from peers, social media, or campaigns. •Epistemic bubbles amplify spread, reinforcing beliefs that certain emotions or behaviors signal a diagnosable disorder. •Peer reinforcement increases help-seeking. As more individuals discuss diagnoses or self-identify with mental health labels, others become more likely to seek professional validation, creates feedback loop. •Mental health workers, face higher volumes of self-diagnosing or “diagnosis-seeking” patients, may LOWER diagnostic thresholds or interpret subclinical symptoms as disorders, leading to diagnostic inflation and over-treatment. 1/2
“[E]vidence for SEL’s long-term mental health benefits remains mixed. Concerns are also growing that universal, non-targeted SEL programs may inadvertently pathologize normal developmental experiences, reinforce self-monitoring, or generate cultural mismatches that undermine resilience” 👉AND they admit SEL is a “framework” for mental health, not primarily an academic proficiency booster
📁Stanford and McGill professors of psychiatry on the unintended harms of the “5 competencies” of SEL: 1/ Self-awareness -> rumination, pathologization of stress 2/ Relationship skills -> suppression of authentic emotion, loss of natural learning 3/ Self-management-> reduced experimental learning, emotional inhibition 4/ Social awareness-> Safetyism, reduced conflict resolution skills 5/ Responsible decision-making -> intellectualized moral instruction without experiential grounding, impedes ethical reasoning skills
“[E]vidence for SEL’s long-term mental health benefits remains mixed. Concerns are also growing that universal, non-targeted SEL programs may inadvertently pathologize normal developmental experiences, reinforce self-monitoring, or generate cultural mismatches that undermine resilience” 👉AND they admit SEL is a “framework” for mental health, not primarily an academic proficiency booster
📢Honored to be a contributor with @CarolynGorman_ on this issues brief and model legislation for @ManhattanInst. In 2025, IL and LA accelerated the use of universal mental health screenings in schools. We take a contrarian view. Schools are not mental health clinics: ban them.
“[E]vidence for SEL’s long-term mental health benefits remains mixed. Concerns are also growing that universal, non-targeted SEL programs may inadvertently pathologize normal developmental experiences, reinforce self-monitoring, or generate cultural mismatches that undermine resilience” 👉AND they admit SEL is a “framework” for mental health, not primarily an academic proficiency booster
“What’s happening now is the mental illness is becoming valorized.” Developmental psychologist J.D. Haltigan says mental illness is increasingly being turned into an identity people embrace. “Mental illness as identity is really something that is coming on.” “I have a disorder, I am defined by that disorder, and I’m some sort of a heroic person for having this disorder.” “It’s really happening across the disorders… mostly for depression and anxiety.” “It’s become so destigmatized that there is no stigma.” “You see this a lot on social media… if you claim you have a mood disorder, you get a lot of affirmation for that.” “That feeds back into it… and you get into this sort of niche group that valorizes it and affirms it.” “That’s not really helpful treatment to eliminate the disorder.” @jdhaltigan
“[E]vidence for SEL’s long-term mental health benefits remains mixed. Concerns are also growing that universal, non-targeted SEL programs may inadvertently pathologize normal developmental experiences, reinforce self-monitoring, or generate cultural mismatches that undermine resilience” 👉AND they admit SEL is a “framework” for mental health, not primarily an academic proficiency booster
