Legal and Political Processes as Tools of Social Change
Consider how the legal and political process might be effectively and creatively employed as tools of social change in the service of a topic or cause that is important to you.
Health Care reform is expected to ensure health insurance provision for those who lost the insurance through unemployment. However, it is not clear if every child in America is guaranteed the minimum health care for healthy development. My proposal is for grade schools to provide the preventive healthcare every child needs, as part of their program. If every child should not be left behind and receive basic education, then it seems that the yearly checkups including body, teeth, and needed vaccinations for every developing child should be part of public grade school provisions. One issue is the diversity in the United States where some parents may not agree with the quality of proactive healthcare, for religious or cultural reasons. If the parents feel they can do better for their children, they can ask for exemptions. In ensuring the preventive checkups for a child are done, then abnormal developments gets reported to their care givers promptly and may be treated before becoming serious.
An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure, the popular adage posited. Christenson called for student-focused philosophy and family involvement in education (2003). Instead of both school and home asking the other party to listen, just do it and help each other with preventive policies. This proposal of making grade school provide the yearly preventive care for developing grade age children is a task that can ease the burden on the average parents. Sheridan and D’Amato called for posing the right questions first in order to improve school psychology (2003). Therefore, instead for school psychology to focus on negatives that require treatment, school psychology should instill preventive care for the school developing children. As for psychologist role, they need to advocate the laws that instill wellness in the society(Fox, 1993). Therefore, as a psychologist, I’d advocate to incorporate basic preventive health care into the grade school program.
