Adam Rafalovich

Framing ADHD Children

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

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9780739125373
• ISBN-10: 0739125370
• Artikelnr.: 23347587

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