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Children and ADHD : seeking control within the constraints of diagnosis
Author(s) -
Brady Geraldine
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
children and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-0860
pISSN - 0951-0605
DOI - 10.1111/chso.12069
Subject(s) - neglect , politics , control (management) , qualitative research , psychology , relation (database) , developmental psychology , social psychology , sociology , psychiatry , social science , political science , law , management , database , computer science , economics
The views of children diagnosed with ADHD have, until recently, largely been neglected in research, policy and practice. This article focuses on qualitative research which explored children's lived experience, drawing attention to the ways that they actively ‘take’ responsibility for managing their physical, psychological and emotional well‐being within the constraints of a medical diagnosis. The neglect of a tradition which asks children about their own experiences of ADHD is crucially bound up with children's low social and political status in UK society and notions of competency and responsibility in relation to ADHD .