Global Perspectives on ADHD

Social Dimensions of Diagnosis and Treatment in Sixteen Countries

Meredith R. Bergey, Angela M. Filipe, Meredith R. Bergey, Peter Conrad, Claudia Malacrida, Tiffani Semach, Brenton J. Prosser, Linda J. Graham, Fabian Karsch, Ilina Singh, Angela M. Filipe, Claire Edwards, Orla O'Donovan, Silvia A. Faraone, Eugenia Bianchi, Francisco Ortega, Rafaela Zorzanelli, Valeria Goncalves, Ale, Meredith R. Bergey, Angela M. Filipe, Peter Conrad, Ilina Singh

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9781421423807
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Health Policy

Examining ADHD and its social and medical treatments around the world.

Attention deficithyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been a common psychiatric diagnosis in both children and adults since the 1980s and 1990s in the United States. But the diagnosis was much less common—even unknown—in other parts of the world. By the end of the twentieth century, this was no longer the case, and ADHD diagnosis and treatment became an increasingly widespread global phenomenon. As the diagnosis was adopted around the world, the definition and treatment of ADHD often changed in the context of different psychiatric professions, medical systems, and cultures.

Global Perspectives on ADHD is the first book to examine how this expanding public health concern is diagnosed and treated in 16 different countries. In some countries, readers learn, over 10% of school-aged children and adolescents are diagnosed with ADHD; in others, that figure is less than 1%. Some countries focus on medicating children with ADHD; others emphasize parent intervention or child therapy. Showing how a medical diagnosis varies across contexts and time periods, this book explains how those distinctions shape medical interventions and guidelines, filling a much-needed gap by examining ADHD on an international scale.

Contributors: Madeleine Akrich, Mari J. Armstrong-Hough, Meredith R. Bergey, Eugenia Bianchi, Christian Bröer, Peter Conrad, Claire Edwards, Silvia A. Faraone, Angela M. Filipe, Alessandra Frigerio, Valéria Portugal Gonçalves, Linda J. Graham, Hiroyuki Ito, Fabian Karsch, Victor Kraak, Claudia Malacrida, Lorenzo Montali, Yasuo Murayama, Sebastián Rojas Navarro, Órla O'Donovan, Francisco Ortega, Mónica Peña Ochoa, Brenton J. Prosser, Vololona Rabeharisoa, Patricio Rojas, Tiffani Semach, Ilina Singh, Rachel Spronk, Junko Teruyama, Masatsugu Tsujii, Fan-Tzu Tseng, Manuel Vallée, Rafaela Zorzanelli

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• 1. ADHD in Global Context: An Introduction
• 2. The Rise and Transformation of ADHD in the United States
• 3. In the Elephant’s Shadow: The Canadian ADHD Context
• 4. Historical, Cultural, and Sociopolitical Influences on Australia’s Response to ADHD
• 5. The Medicalization of Fidgety Philip: ADHD in Germany
• 6. ADHD in the United Kingdom: Conduct, Class, and Stigma
• 7. The Emergence and Shaping of ADHD in Portugal: Ambiguities of a Diagnosis “in the Making”
• 8. Transformations in the Irish ADHD Disorder Regime— from a Disorder “You Have to Fight to Get” to One “You Have to Wait to Get”
• 9. The Journey of ADHD in Argentina: From the Increase in Methylphenidate Use to Tensions among Health Professionals
• 10. Academic and Professional Tensions and Debates around ADHD in Brazil
• 11. ADHD in the Italian Context: Children in the Midst of Social and Political Debates
• 12. The French ADHD Landscape: Maintaining and Dealing with Multiple Uncertainties
• 13. ADHD in Japan
• 14. Pharmaceuticalization through Government Funding Activities: ADHD in New Zealand
• 15. From Problematic Children to Problematic Diagnosis: The Paradoxical Trajectories of Child and Adolescent ADHD in Chile
• 16. The Development of Child Psychiatry and the Biomedicalization of ADHD in Taiwan
• 17. Exploring the ADHD Diagnosis in Ghana: Between Disrespect and Lack of Institutionalization
• 18. Reflections on ADHD in a Global Context
• Index