Framing Adhd Children - A Critical Examination of the History, Discourse, and Everyday

Informationen zum Autor Adam Rafalovich is assistant professor of sociology at Texas Tech University. Klappentext An in depth study of how adults and children negotiate the meaning of ADHD within the contexts of the home, school, and clinic. Adam Rafalovich's book provides historical perspectives of ADHD alongside the everyday accounts of ADHD from parents, teachers, clinicians, and ADHD children. Zusammenfassung An in depth study of how adults and children negotiate the meaning of ADHD within the contexts of the home! school! and clinic. Adam Rafalovich's book provides historical perspectives of ADHD alongside the everyday accounts of ADHD from parents! teachers! clinicians! and ADHD children. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Adam Rafalovich, Rafalovich Adam
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.10.2007
• EAN: 9780739125373
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-2537-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Medicine: general issues, MEDICAL / General, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, MEDICAL / Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Medicine / Healthcare: general issues / topics, Paediatric medicine / child and adolescent medicine