Global Perspectives on ADHD : Social Dimensions of Diagnosis and Treatment in Sixteen Countries

Bergey, Meredith R. (EDT); Filipe, Angela M. (EDT); Conrad, Peter (EDT); Singh, Ilina (EDT)

ISBN 10: 1421423790 / ISBN 13: 9781421423791

Edité par Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018

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• Titre: Global Perspectives on ADHD : Social Dimensions of Diagnosis and Treatment in Sixteen Countries
• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date de parution: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1421423790
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781421423791
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

Attention deficithyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been a common psychiatric diagnosis in both children and adults since the 1980s and 1990s in the United States. But the diagnosis was much less common--even unknown--in other parts of the world. By the end of the twentieth century, this was no longer the case, and ADHD diagnosis and treatment became an increasingly widespread global phenomenon. As the diagnosis was adopted around the world, the definition and treatment of ADHD often changed in the context of different psychiatric professions, medical systems, and cultures.

Global Perspectives on ADHD is the first book to examine how this expanding public health concern is diagnosed and treated in 16 different countries. In some countries, readers learn, over 10% of school-aged children and adolescents are diagnosed with ADHD; in others, that figure is less than 1%. Some countries focus on medicating children with ADHD; others emphasize parent intervention or child therapy. Showing how a medical diagnosis varies across contexts and time periods, this book explains how those distinctions shape medical interventions and guidelines, filling a much-needed gap by examining ADHD on an international scale.

Contributors: Madeleine Akrich, Mari J. Armstrong-Hough, Meredith R. Bergey, Eugenia Bianchi, Christian Bröer, Peter Conrad, Claire Edwards, Silvia A. Faraone, Angela M. Filipe, Alessandra Frigerio, Valéria Portugal Gonçalves, Linda J. Graham, Hiroyuki Ito, Fabian Karsch, Victor Kraak, Claudia Malacrida, Lorenzo Montali, Yasuo Murayama, Sebastián Rojas Navarro, Órla O'Donovan, Francisco Ortega, Mónica Peña Ochoa, Brenton J. Prosser, Vololona Rabeharisoa, Patricio Rojas, Tiffani Semach, Ilina Singh, Rachel Spronk, Junko Teruyama, Masatsugu Tsujii, Fan-Tzu Tseng, Manuel Vallée, Rafaela Zorzanelli

À propos des auteurs

Meredith R. Bergey is an assistant professor of sociology at Villanova University.

Angela M. Filipe is post-doctoral Research Fellow in Childhood, Health & Society at McGill University.

Peter Conrad is the Harry Coplan Professor of Social Sciences at Brandeis University. He is the coauthor of Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness and coeditor of The Double-Edged Helix, also published by Johns Hopkins.

Ilina Singh is a professor of neuroscience and society at Oxford University.