final- medicalization

Question 1

define the “cooperative framing” of an ADHD diagnosis

Answer 1

• how often are we treating children who suffer from a real condition and
  how often are we trying to fit them into a particular social institution (bureaucratized schooling
  environment), medicalizing them when they do not fit?

Question 2

describe the rationalization of education and how that might drive ADHD diagnoses

Answer 2

• How the school-based team (SBT), teachers, principles,
  and/or parents (“circuit of agents”) co-construct the ADHD
  diagnosis through “pre-labeling” and “pre-diagnosis.

Question 3

How/why does a personal trouble become a relational trouble?

Answer 3

• Comparing children, teachers turn a “personal trouble” into
  a “relational problem.”