Parental narratives online about ADHD
Parental narratives online about ADHD
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DOI：
10.1080/15332985.2020.1838030
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发表时间：
2020-01-01
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1.1
通讯作者：
Lundin, Linda
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作者：
Lundin, Linda
当代父母转向社交媒体讨论父母问题。本研究的目的是分析在线论坛上的198篇帖子，这些帖子是由父母发布的，这些父母的孩子被诊断为注意力缺陷多动障碍（ADHD），或者怀疑他们的孩子符合多动症的诊断标准。采用叙事主题法探讨父母是否使用医学话语来理解青少年行为的意义。结果表明，父母的叙述主要受到医学话语的影响，在医学话语中，坚持神经生物学框架提供了一种连贯性，指导父母对青少年困难的意义建构。父母使用ADHD诊断来重建青少年的个人叙述，使其更容易被社会接受。此外，如果多动症没有被发现，父母们会设想一个黑暗的未来，这导致父母们为了得到诊断而进行激烈的斗争。在本研究中，叙述者将负责任的父母视为代表青少年争取ADHD诊断和药物治疗权利的父母。社会工作者应该意识到，父母可能会在在线论坛上鼓励彼此在医学框架下解释青少年的发展。
Contemporary parents turn to social media to discuss parental issues. The aim of the present study was to analyze 198 posts on online discussion forums posted by parents whose adolescents had been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) or who suspected that their adolescent would meet the diagnostic criteria for an ADHD diagnose. Narrative thematic method was used to explore whether parents used a medical discourse for making meaning of their adolescents' behaviors. The results showed that parental narratives were predominantly influenced by the medical discourse where adherence to the neurobiological framework provided a sense of coherence that guided parents' meaning-making of adolescent hardship. Parents used an ADHD diagnosis to reconstruct the personal narrative of the adolescent into a more socially accepted identity. Additionally, parents envisioned a dark future if ADHD went undetected, leading parents to engage in intense battles to obtain diagnoses. Narrators in the present study viewed a responsible parent as a parent who would fight for the right to an ADHD diagnosis and medication on behalf of the adolescent. Social workers should be aware of that parents may on online discussion forums encourage each other to interpret adolescent development within a medical framework.