"Backfire?" Ya think??-----Crazy time: Illinois schools will test students' mental health

Mental health awareness campaigns aimed at teenagers may backfire, writes Ellen Barry in the New York Times. 

Teens may be encouraged to see the normal challenges of adolescence as signs of mental illness. - Joanne Jacobs
Illinois schools will provide annual mental-health screenings for all students in third grade and up, under a new bill signed by Gov. JB Pritzker. 

Students already are tested for vision and hearing problems.
The goal is to detect anxiety, depression and trauma before it's "too late," said State Senator Laura Fine (D-Glenview)...

•  School-based mental health programs don't improve mental health or academic outcomes, concludes Carolyn D. Gorman, a policy analyst at the Manhattan Institute. No "high-quality evidence" supports "universal mental health literacy, awareness, prevention, and screening" or many social-emotional learning programs, she writes...