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Originally Posted by DapperButch
All you really need is one psychological evaluation to see if someone fits the characteristics of someone who would not be the best influence on children. Repetition wouldn't make a difference.
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Originally Posted by Greyson
I am not a psychologist either. Not even close. Urban Planner does not make me an expert in this field. As far as repetition, I thought every few years may help because sometimes it does seem like people can become troubled a few years later. I don't think blanced mental health is a given for a life time.
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Absolutely. I wasn't referring to shifting mental health disorders (like mood disorders, for example), I was referring specifically to what I highlighted above. I am referring to people who would have extremely poor judgement, antisocial traits, etc., that could effect them making good choices for children. For example, the person in the article has the children write to her boyfriend who is an inmate in prison who had child porn and weapons charges on him. That shows very poor judgement. I would suggest that if she continued as a teacher, she would continue to make poor choices such as the above. This is about "who" she is as a person.
I am not referring to things like depression, for example, which could change year to year. Having a teacher who is depressed isn't harmful to children.
Make sense?
Corkey, brought up a good example of a profession that does psychological testing for this purpose. Police officers. They test for things like antisocial traits. People who are mildly-severely socialpathic apply to become police officers. They like to feel they have power over others (not such a good trait for a police officer who already is handed a lot of power). Police officers also need to be able to control their anger and have good judgement. They screen for these things and then recommend whether or not the police department should consider hiring the person. If the person had depression, for example, the psychologist may recommend treatment to the person, but it wouldn't preclude them from being a good police officer.