. We must strive to make this conclusion less inevitable.
Working with legislators representing thousands of children across Connecticut, I personally drafted Section 10 of SB 2, which eliminateson the number of outpatient counseling sessions minors may seek without parental consent. The reform allows kids and teens struggling with symptoms that don’t require hospitalization or constant observation to contend with their issues in outpatient settings while maintaining their privacy and individual pace of recovery throughout treatment.
Age-based restrictions obstruct the counseling framework and undermine basic parity between mental and physical health services. It’s difficult to imagine a law on the books forbidding you from visiting the doctor a certain number of times for a broad category of physical injury or illness . When it comes to mental health, however, that attitude is normalized in spite of patient needs.