To Medicate or Not to Medicate? The Decision‐making Process of Western Australian Parents Following Their Child’s Diagnosis with an Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Taylor, Myra F.; O’Donoghue, Tom; Houghton, Stephen

doi:10.1080/10349120500510115

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“…The study provides further evidence of the intensity of the difficulties experienced by mothers of a child with ADHD. As noted in previous studies (Harbrone & Wolpert, 2004;Taylor, O'Donoghue, & Houghton, 2006), and subsequently from the mothers' posts, most of the mothers struggle daily to cope with their child's behavior. The findings provided rich data that openly described mothers' main concerns.…”

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The Internet Forums as Tool for Coping and Consultation of Mothers’ with Their Child with ADHD

Heiman¹

2017

JPR

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The internet forums become an inseparable part for communication, information and support for parents with a child with special needs. With the rapid development of the technology, the almost unlimited access to the websites, more and more parents are seeking for online answers regarding concerns and dilemmas regarding their child with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms. The current study, using a qualitative study, examined 190 posts, regarding parents experience with a child with ADHD. Researchers coded the internet posts, and six main categories were derived: medical treatment; diagnosis aspects; recommendations for doctors; behavior challenges; schools and academic achievement; seeking for encouragement and support. The findings focused on the dilemmas and the enormous need for a support group among parents, suggesting planning specific online interventions with parents, in order to provide them useful social and behavioral tools, and to strength and improve their self perception and perceived well-being.

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The Internet Forums as Tool for Coping and Consultation of Mothers’ with Their Child with ADHD

Heiman¹

2017

JPR

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“…As the narrative goes, ADHD behaviours result in poor relationships with teachers for both the child and parents, with the child feeling increasingly frustrated regarding the negativity surrounding her/his behaviour in the classroom. When the child receives a diagnosis, parents initially experience it as a catastrophe (see for example Taylor et al, 2006), but then as a relief because it facilitates the start of therapeutic intervention(s) and supports, including drug treatment (which proves that the child has a serious condition and does not deserve to be blamed for her/his behaviour), and specific educational methods to manage the child's behaviours. This sort of stylised narration points to the fact that ADHD is a 'real' disorder whose manifestations can be addressed.…”

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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in France and Ireland: Parents’ groups’ scientific and political framing of an unsettled condition

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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is an unsettled condition whose history is characterised by controversy among medical professionals. Its emergence has frequently been interpreted as an example of the growing 'medicalisation' of society and the individualisation of social issues. This article examines how groups representing children with ADHD in France and Ireland engage within this contested medical domain to develop different politics of knowledge around the disorder which become visible in their 'epistemic efforts'. These efforts emerge from, and enact, groups' understandings of ADHD as a condition, and frame their development of a politics of healthcare as a basis for articulating claims to appropriate services and treatment. We show how, in Ireland, organisations remain committed to a biomedical approach to ADHD, although their practical efforts are oriented towards complementing medication with nonpharmaceutical treatments. In France, the key parents' group opposes any paradigm that focuses exclusively on one aspect of the disorder, be it social, psychological or neurological; rather, it struggles to 'open up' the scientific domain of ADHD. Our empirical material therefore enables us to demonstrate patients' organisations' politics of knowledge as situated practices which aim to reshape the different networks of expertise on ADHD that exist in each country, and to explore medicalisation as a complex set of processes which is neither a solution to parents' problems, nor an end point for their actions.

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“…Sax and Kautz (2003) found that physicians estimated that ADHD diagnosis was first suggested by a teacher or school employee in about one half of diagnoses. Taylor et al (2006) trace a path that parents often take from diagnosis of ADHD to medication; a path through grieving, cynicism and proactive parenting. Here we hope to add to our understanding of this context by a close up view of that preceding context that Sax and Kautz attend to; one that influences decisions making around seeking diagnosis: the school.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Carpenter

Austin

2008

International Journal of Inclusive Education

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To Medicate or Not to Medicate? The Decision‐making Process of Western Australian Parents Following Their Child’s Diagnosis with an Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Cited by 40 publications

References 5 publications

The Internet Forums as Tool for Coping and Consultation of Mothers’ with Their Child with ADHD

The Internet Forums as Tool for Coping and Consultation of Mothers’ with Their Child with ADHD

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in France and Ireland: Parents’ groups’ scientific and political framing of an unsettled condition

How to be recognized enough to be included?

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