perspectives on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder /
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Mary Horton-Salway and Alison Davies.
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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2018.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource
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The language of mental health
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Intro; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Figures; 1 Introduction Mary Horton-Salway and Alison Davies; Science, Fact Construction and 'Ships in Bottles'; The Context of Health and Illness; The Social and Psychological Worlds as Medical Business; Shaping the Meaning of Medical Conditions; Our Approach; Social Constructionism and Mental Health Categories; Why Discourse Analysis?; Background on Discursive Psychology; A Blended Approach; Key Analytic Concepts; The Structure of the Book; References; 2 Mapping the Discourses of ADHD: The Historical Legacy Alison Davies
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Biological ExplanationsTracing the History of ADHD; Problematising Medical Knowledge as Objective and Value-Free; Resistance; Psychological Explanations; The Family and the Psy Disciplines; Sociological Explanations; Medicalisation and the Pharmaceutical Industry; Variation in Prevalence Rates; ADHD and Gender; Social Explanations; The Biopsychosocial Approach; Neurobiological Development and Parent Accountability; The Persistence of a Bio-Bio-Bio Approach; Concluding Comments; References; 3 Media Representations of ADHD Mary Horton-Salway; ADHD, Media Concerns and Media Framing
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Navigating Dilemmatic Discourses of Good FatheringRational-Emotional Talk; The Problem with Boys; Normalising and Pathologising Behaviour; Resisting the Narratives of Pathology and Impairment: 'Just an Active Boy'; Talking About Medication; Medication Versus Self-discipline; The Good Parenting Team; Negotiating Gendered Understanding: The Parenting Team; The Professionalisation of Fathers' Knowledge; Concluding Comments; References; 6 Voices of Experience: Narrative Lives and Selves Mary Horton-Salway; The Emergence of ADHD as a Life-Long Condition; The Consequences of Gendering
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Newsworthiness and the Decline of Scientific AuthorityADHD Discourse and 'The Internet'; 'Counter-Stories'; Metanarratives and Gendering Identities; Concluding Comments; References; 4 'Normal Rules of Parenting Don't Apply': ADHD, Maternal Accountability and Mother Identities Alison Davies; Contemporary Parenting Discourses; Gendered Care-Giving and the Blameworthy Mother; Resisting a Stigmatised Identity; Resisting Discourses of Blame: Turning to the Biomedical Model; The Significance of Diagnosis as a Pivotal Event; Securing a Diagnosis: Taking on the Experts
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Transformative Accounts of MedicationThe Intensification of Maternal Responsibility; Resistance and Compliance: The Politics of Parenting; Parenting-as-a-Project; The Skilled Mother; Fighting for Their Children; The Professional Mother; The Authority of Maternal Experience; Resisting Troubled Identities; Concluding Comments; References; 5 'Just an Active Boy': Intersecting Discourses of ADHD, Masculinity and Father Identities Alison Davies; Contemporary Debates Around Fathering; The Cultural Context and Two Versions of the 'Good Father'; Traditional Fathers and Lenient Mothers
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This book explores the discourse of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), one of the most debated mental health categories attributed to children and adults across the globe. The authors trace the origins, development and representation of ADHD to demonstrate how the category is produced through competing explanatory theories and processes of scientific, professional and lay discourse. Starting with the idea that medical categories are as much a product of cultural meaning, social processes and models of medicine as they are of scientific fact, this book utilises a range of perspectives from within critical discursive psychology to approach this topic. The authors discuss historical construction, media representation, parents' accounts of family life, and the personal experience of children and adults to demonstrate how the construction of social identity and cultural stereotypes are embedded in the meaning of ADHD. They explore the origins of ADHD and how biological and psychosocial explanations of the mental health category have been produced, circulated, debated and resisted within a culture of 'Othering', and the discourse of blame.