Violent children and structural violence: Re-signaling ‘RAD Kids’ to inform the social work professions

Stryker, Rachael

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“…As emotional technique, performance and expression become ever more globally salient markers of difference (and success) within both privileged and marginalised social contexts, certain children and young people are targeted as embodying existing and emerging forms of emotional deviance (Stryker, 2010(Stryker, , 2013. One goal of this anthropological project has been to use the Palestinian case to explore some ways in which particular dominant or ascendant styles of emotional regulation and expression are encouraged and repressed across Palestinian young people's diverse institutional and social contexts, and in relation to their different social identities.…”

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Young people, emotional suspicion and the emergence of paediatric selfhood in Palestine

Stryker

2020

Children & Society

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This paper explores young people's relationships to emotions and mental health care in Ramallah, Palestine. Palestinian young people—via public anger, sadness, or even joy—are often marked as emotionally other in familial, institutional and other public spaces as part of NGO‐driven constructions of emerging paediatric selfhood. In response, they reproduce and/or reframe notions of emotional suspicion that underwrite these marginalizing processes. Thinking along such axes as possibility and impossibility; mobility and immobility; and the local and international, they simultaneously integrate and resist representational subjection, which is an important part of understanding broader post‐Oslo Palestinian identity and community formation.

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Young people, emotional suspicion and the emergence of paediatric selfhood in Palestine

Stryker

2020

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“…Reifying problems of childhood, and childhood itself, for the purpose of facilitating health care intervention, however, can have negative consequences. For example, Stryker () argues in relation to children labelled as ‘RAD’ kids (Reactive Attachment Disorder), that such a label and the surrounding narratives ‘reflect a tendency to over‐value dispositional or pathological explanations for the observed behaviours of children diagnosed (…) while under‐valuing structural explanations’. Classifications such as RAD and ADHD might thereby serve to represent (or cover up) larger societal problems (Miller and Leger, ) , such as divorce, poverty, large classrooms, lack of opportunities for play, etc.…”

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“…There are also competing interests and there likely is much ‘economic, cultural, and political capital bound up’ (Stryker, , p. 1186) in the superficial framing of complex problems. For instance, some of the criteria for an ADHD ‘diagnosis’ directly relate to school.…”

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ADHD and Brain Anatomy: What Do Academic Textbooks Used in the Netherlands Tell Students?

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Freedman

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Studies of brain size of children classified with ADHD appear to reveal smaller brains when compared to 'normal' children. Yet, what does this mean? Even with the use of rigorously screened case and control groups, these studies show only small, average group differences between children with and without an ADHD classification. However, academic textbooks used in the Netherlands often portray individual children with an ADHD classification as having a different, malfunctioning brain that necessitates medical intervention. This conceptualisation of ADHD might serve professional interests, but not necessarily the interests of children.

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“…As has been elaborated elsewhere [14], a widespread social consensus exists regarding child welfare matters. Although these matters are frequently used by politicians and the media as rhetorical devices and emotional assets [15], this discursive intensity is not always consistently translated into policies or practices. On the other hand, this unanimity, even if it arouses ethical shock and emotional indignation, does not induce social pressure or collectively persistent action in relation to children's issues.…”

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Child Trafficking: The Construction of a Social Problem

Martins¹

2021

Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking

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Child trafficking is a public health problem and a serious violation of human rights. However, it is not a product of modern times; rather, it is a phenomenon observed across history. Nevertheless, it is not viewed as a social problem because it only affects a limited number of individuals, and these individuals are children. In fact, the social status of children and the importance attached to their difficulties, the social exclusion of problem children (the children of others), and the double negativity attributed to child victims might explain why this crime is not generally recognized as a problem that must be addressed. As a topic of high consensus and low intensity, its increasing presence in the political discourse and in child protection practices is not accompanied by the active involvement of the general population in its prevention or combat. In this chapter, we discuss the ambivalent presence of child trafficking in Portugal and within Europe, considering the official data on the phenomenon with regard to the aspects of crime and victimization.

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Violent children and structural violence: Re-signaling ‘RAD Kids’ to inform the social work professions

Cited by 8 publications

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Young people, emotional suspicion and the emergence of paediatric selfhood in Palestine

Young people, emotional suspicion and the emergence of paediatric selfhood in Palestine

ADHD and Brain Anatomy: What Do Academic Textbooks Used in the Netherlands Tell Students?

Child Trafficking: The Construction of a Social Problem

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