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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here -I wonder if the agencies just don't have enough candidates, if they truly screened for mental health? (Like, is "disclosure" enough to meet the au pair agency burden of screening candidate - just merely identifying potential issues for family, rather than agency, to decide?)

I am preferring that they disclose, rather than not disclose, but still.... I would like to see more candidates without these "issues" (or those who don't see everyday issues that everyone experiences as pathological, like a PP said).

Feels like these are red flag items.[/quote]

I think most of the stuff on the list you describe is pretty typical things for people in this age bracket to have a hard time managing. That age group is also a lot more comfortable identifying these as mental health issues than previous generations have been and increasingly willing to seek support in dealing with them. I also would not consider a person who went to therapy to process a bad breakup with someone other than their friends to be a person who has "psychological issues" and think there might be a disconnect in what they are considering "mental health problems that would prevent a person from being an au pair" and the stuff on your list.

Put a slightly different way - a lot of the kids of people who post on this forum probably meet at least a couple of those criteria, and they are probably still kids you would generally consider responsible enough to babysit. That can be true here, if you are evaluating things on the merits.

I hear you about not wanting to be the therapist. In the case where an au pair needs to be in therapy, that should be identified as a medical need they have that must be met the same as any other medical need. I say that as an actual therapist.[/quote]

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