Psychiatry is now firmly entrenched into the educational system is diagnosing and treating children for learning and behaviour disorders and predominantly for what they call attention-deficit and hyperactivity.
In recent years we have schools move over from the learning business in to mental health and behaviour modifications. This trend reflected also in other western nations has been directly influenced by psychiatry and their take on education and schools. The President of the US History of Education Services and professor of Education University of California, Sol Cohen said that a few intellectual and social movements of this century have had so deep and pervasive an influence on the theory and practice of education as the mental hygiene movement. More in the main article.