Owning up to complexity: a sociocultural orientation to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
To enrich our conception of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), it is necessary to take a wider orientation to this disability category than has been advocated traditionally. Over the past decade, there has been an emerging conception of ADHD from a sociocultural perspective, and this orientation, when linked to the traditional biomedical perspective, provides a more accurate and authentic construct of ADHD. In this article, we advocate that speech-language pathologists approach ADHD with a mindset that is open to the complexities of context-bound human functioning at all levels. Four sources of data demonstrating the richness of the sociocultural orientation are presented and clinical implications are detailed
Damico
Jack S
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Department of Communicative Disorders, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana 70504-3170, USA. jsdamico@louisiana.edu
Müller
Nicole
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Ball
Martin J
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D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D003071:Cognition; D003147:Communication Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000209:etiology; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012917:Social Adjustment