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Hi again. There are no current 'tests' to indicate that a child has a mental health disorder or a disease. In medicine a disease is an abnormality; no abnormality-normal--no disease. The abnormality may be gross, i.e. visible to the macroscopic, or molecular-chemical (as with too much sugar in diabetes or too much phenylalanine in PKU), but, unless some abnormality has been objectively demonstrated, disease cannot be said to be present in the child therefore that child is normal. Throughout the child mental health industry parents/guardians/teachers/nurses etc are fraudulently induced to see children as diseased/abnormal-as "patients" to get them to accept psychiatric/mental health treatments (usually psychiatric drugs with all the consequences that this involves. So how do we as camhs practitioners morally and ethically praqctice in this context? Regards Andrew Duggan