The The diagnostic of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) on the life of a child acase study
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This article aims to analyze the impacts of the diagnostic of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder (ADHD) on the life of a child. Initially, it approaches how ADHD appears in psychiatry
manuals. Then, it criticizes such concept in the light of the discussions around childhood medicalization Hereupon, it presents methodological aspects of the research done in the city of Salvador, Bahia,
Brazil, through a qualitative case study. Taking advantage of intense field research, the following
procedures were adopted: participant observations, document analysis, and partially structured
interviews. The long interaction with the child and her environment made it possible to realize that
her journey is crossed by a complex and delicate process as of the constitution of ADHD diagnostic
that impacts on a medical and psycho-pedagogical intervention that imprisons school and family
perception. Against these obstacles, the child insists on being, provoking on the other new perspectives
about her way of living. It is expected, with this article, to contribute to the critical debate about the
medicalization of childhood, favouring understandings that respect the diversity that it envolves
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