Examines how groups representing children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in France and Ireland … medicalisation and de-politicisation. …

pharmaceuticalisation and medicalisation in configuring childhood short stature as a site for pharmaceutical intervention. Human growth … processes of medicalisation will be employed to address this question and simultaneously query the value of enhancement as a …

might be described as the medicalisation of their problems. There is an obvious gap between the ‘created’ desire for a …

ADHD costs are relevant from health insurance perspective. The expenses for occupational therapy constitute the cost … considerably increased prescriptions of ADHD-specific drugs, the significantly higher additional expenses for occupational therapy …

disorder. The primary hypothesis of the study was that academic performance and planning problems in the adolescents with ADHD …, 60 students (30 girls and boys with ADHD recognized in counseling centers and 30 healthy girls and boys as the control … the participants with ADHD had passed treatment courses like counseling and medication, they showed a meaningful …

medications commonly prescribed for ADHD in Quebec relative to the rest of Canada. We ask whether this increase in medication use … was associated with improvements in emotional functioning or academic outcomes among children with ADHD. We find little … medication for ADHD, but suggest that expanding medication in a community setting had little positive benefit and may have had …