Living with diagnoses: an interactionist analysis of a young person’s experience of ADHD and Asperger’s syndrome

Bečević, Zulmir

doi:10.1080/2156857x.2017.1326974

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“…Thus, the young adults I have met often express being in an unresolved position. This corresponds with the research of Bjørg Mari Hannås and Zulmir Bečević that shows a similar type of identity-work done by people being diagnosed with ADHD (Bečević 2017;Hannås 2010Hannås , 2012. Hydén, among others, argues that a diagnosis can function as an organizing principle in a person's selfnarrative, which helps transform previous dislodged experiences into a whole (Hydén 2005: 224-5;Karp 2017;Martin 2007).…”

Section: Identity-worksupporting

confidence: 87%

Overcoming Diagnostic Uncertainty: Clinicians, Patients and Institutional Work in Practice

Olesen

2019

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

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This article uses aspects from Institutional Ethnography to explore how both clinicians and young adults with mental health problems use different adaptation strategies to overcome the diagnostic uncertainty in psychiatry. The article illustrates the connection between the local production of diagnoses in Norwegian psychiatric outpatient clinics and the individual experience of being identified with multiple psychiatric diagnoses. The article explores how two clinicians from two psychiatric outpatient clinics produce diagnoses locally. It is shown how institutional texts coordinate the diagnostic work as 'ruling relations'. On the other side of the desk, the arbitrary element affects the young adults with mental health problems, who perform a large amount of identity work when dealing with the numerous diagnoses they are given. The young adults find the ease with which they are diagnosed, the number of diagnoses, and the way the diagnoses are used to be disturbing and confusing.

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Section: Identity-worksupporting

confidence: 87%