Adam Rafalovich

Framing ADHD Children (eBook, ePUB)

A Critical Examination of the History, Discourse, and Everyday Experience of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Framing ADHD Children explores the three social worlds of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: the home, classroom, and clinic. Through intensive interviews with teachers, parents, clinicians, and ADHD children, this book brings to light the human experiences surrounding this behavior disorder. The experiences of interview participants are supplemented with the most detailed historical discussion of ADHD to date, including the past and present debates about the true "nature" of the disorder, issues concerning children taking stimulant medications, and the continuing discussion of whether or not modern technology can really detect ADHD in the brain. Both the history of ADHD and the people interviewed here demonstrate that ADHD is far from a cut-and-dry phenomenon, but rather a complex social process that requires the negotiation of uncertainty and ambiguity at every step.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739155165
• Artikelnr.: 39254462

Autorenporträt

Adam Rafalovich is assistant professor of sociology at Texas Tech University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Before We Called it ADHD: Idiocy, Imbecility and Encephalitis
Lethargica
Chapter 3 Psychodynamic versus Neurological Perspectives: Clinicians
Discuss DSM IV and the Essences of ADHD
Chapter 4 Clinicians as the Mediators of ADHD Suspicion and Treatment
Chapter 5 The Realm of Semiformal Suspicion: Framing ADHD Children in the
Classroom
Chapter 6 Responding to ADHD: School Curricula, Simplified Assignments, and
Gender
Chapter 7 Parent Accounts: How Trouble Becomes ADHD
Chapter 8 Developing Informal Expertise: How Parents Negotiate the Meaning
of ADHD