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Diagnosis, Treatment, and Educational Implications for Students with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom
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Schlachter, Sarah – Peabody Journal of Education, 2008
For many years there has been debate over Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and whether this condition, which commonly afflicts adolescent children, is a medical or social condition and whether it is exclusively an American phenomenon. This article reviews the basis of ADHD's definition, diagnosis, treatment, and educational…
Descriptors: Hyperactivity, Attention Deficit Disorders, Identification, Foreign Countries
Drugs, Labels and (p)ill-Fitting Boxes: ADHD and Children Who Are Hard to Teach
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Graham, Linda J. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2008
In offering a critical review of the problem we call "ADHD" (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), this paper progresses in three stages. The first two parts feature the dominant voices emanating from the literature in medicine and psychology which, when juxtaposed, highlight an interdependency between these otherwise competing…
Descriptors: Hyperactivity, Attention Deficit Disorders, Foreign Countries, Drug Therapy
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
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Taylor, Myra; O'Donoghue, Tom; Houghton, Stephen – International Journal of Disability, Development & Education, 2006
This article examines the decision-making processes that Western Australian parents utilise when deciding whether to medicate or not to medicate their child diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Thirty-three parents (five fathers and 28 mothers) from a wide range of socio-economic status suburbs in Perth, Western Australia were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes, Decision Making, Clinical Diagnosis
Are ADHD Gender Patterns Moderated by Sample Source?
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Graetz, Brian W.; Sawyer, Michael G.; Baghurst, Peter; Ettridge, Kerry – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2006
Objective: To examine whether ADHD gender patterns with respect to social-demographic characteristics, comorbidity, and impairment vary as a function of service use for emotional or behavioral problems. Method: Two hundred and seventy-nine males and 119 females meeting ADHD symptom criteria identified in a nationally representative sample of…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Attention Deficit Disorders, Hyperactivity, Social Influences