Horton-Salway, Mary
(2011).
|
Due to copyright restrictions, this file is not available for public download Click here to request a copy from the OU Author. |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1177/1363459310389626 |
|---|---|
| Google Scholar: | Look up in Google Scholar |
Abstract
This article takes a discursive approach to examine how Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder has been represented and debated in UK newspapers in the last decade. Two repertoires of ADHD were identified as the biological and the psychosocial. Subject positions such as problem child, abnormal or ordinary naughty child and ineffectual or neglectful parents are embedded in these alternative versions of ADHD. The biological repertoire justifies and encourages drug treatment for problem children while the psychosocial repertoire makes available the subject position of ordinary naughty child and supports moral judgements about poor parenting practices in a ‘sick society’. Such representations have challenged the media medicalization of ADHD common in a previous decade. Although the biological and the psychosocial repertoires are competing explanations for ADHD, they both perform a common function in representing families as in need of regulation.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Copyright Holders: | 2011 The Author |
| ISSN: | 1461-7196 |
| Keywords: | ADHD; interpretative repertoires; media representations; subject positions |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Social Sciences > Psychology in the Social Sciences |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) |
| Item ID: | 28444 |
| Depositing User: | Mary Horton-Salway |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Mar 2011 12:44 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Oct 2012 08:58 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/28444 |
Actions (login may be required)
| View Item | |
| Public: Report issue / request change |