HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Personality Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Caffeine
1 Dec 2016
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Label reduced complex issues (like misbehaviour or poor school performance) to easy to understand explanation: they had a hyperactivity problem. Simple enough that all sorts of groups could rally behind it. Baby boom: massive increase in population meant crowded classrooms, insufficient numbers of (often poorly trained) teachers. Creation of school counselor responsible for identifying the intelligent child whose. Grades don"t live up to expectations. search is on. Smith argues, the hyperactive child became a symbol of perceived american intellectual inferiority solving hyperactivity was described as crucial to winning the cold war. Various terms: hyperkinetic impulse disorder (stressed over activity), organic brain syndrome, acting out (psychoanalytic), minimal brain damage (minor neurological trauma before, during, and after birth) and later minimal brain dysfunction (since not all kids damaged ). Differences involve changing which aspects of an illness emphasized, which are deemphasized. Affects who gets diagnosed, who gets treated and how, how etiology is considered.
