Overview
- Draws on original research spaning contexts including media representations, personal experience narratives, and research with parents
- Provides a critical and discursive perspective on ADHD as a category that challenges assumptions and contributes to the debate around its meaning and legitimacy
- Explores how negative stereotypes can be resisted and positive representations can be adopted
Part of the book series: The Language of Mental Health (TLMH)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Alison Davies is a member of the British Psychological Society, UK, and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She is Associate Lecturer at The Open University, and also works as an academic consultant in higher education and as a counselling psychotherapist.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Discourse of ADHD
Book Subtitle: Perspectives on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Authors: Mary Horton-Salway, Alison Davies
Series Title: The Language of Mental Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76026-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-76025-4Published: 04 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09383-9Published: 04 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-76026-1Published: 22 March 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-4374
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4382
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 303
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations
Topics: Clinical Psychology, Discourse Analysis, Disability Studies, Personality and Social Psychology, Gender Studies