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Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder case (ADHD) and the medicalization of education: an analysis from parents and teachers' reports
Fecha
2016-07-01Registro en:
Interface-comunicacao Saude Educacao. Botucatu: Univ Estadual Paulista-unesp, v. 20, n. 58, p. 703-714, 2016.
1414-3283
10.1590/1807-57622015.0575
S1414-32832016000300703
WOS:000444349000015
S1414-32832016000300703.pdf
1361530389916807
Autor
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)
Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM)
Institución
Resumen
Difficult behaviors in childhood are the center of frequent discussions in the medical and educational areas in the last years. Two interrelated phenomena stand out in this debate: the medicalization and pathologization of childhood. Medicine and psychiatry are known as producers of these processes creating and recreating diagnostic categories to justify innumerable problems in the complex relationships in the school environment. From this perspective, we intend to bring the narratives of parents and teachers from a public school in the state of Sao Paulo about students, aged between seven and 11 years old, diagnosed with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) that link with discussions about the medicalization process in the present society. It is considered that children who have shown difficulties in learning or behaving are categorized as biological ahistorical bodies lacking social and affective life.