Abstract

COUTINHO, Mayara Karolina Alvarenga Recaldes Gomes  and  ARAUJO, Doracina Aparecida de Castro. The medicalization of school life: incoherencies in the conceptualization of TDAH. Sér.-Estud. [online]. 2018, vol.23, n.47, pp.223-239. ISSN 2318-1982.  https://doi.org/10.20435/serie-estudos.v23i47.959.

Article of bibliographic review about the medicalization of Education from the complaint of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder proceeding from the school and demanding a medical and/or psychological diagnosis. The aim of this article is to present the contribution of national and Latin-American authors to the critique of the medicalization of life and the teaching-learning process, marked by biological explanations about the student's behavior, especially that identified as inattentive and/or unquiet about which affixes to the diagnosis of Transtorno do Attencion Deficit Hiperacitivity Disorder (TDAH). The material for analysis was selected by criteria of relevance of authorship, from the search in articles and book chapters that had as its main theme medicalization and TDAH The qualitative analysis shows that the medicalization is inserted in the biologization process of life and corresponds to the transposition of own explanations of the medical field to the issues inherent in other fields, such as Education. About the TDAH, it is a mental disorder that materializes the medicalization of Education and about which there isn't still a theoretical consensus. It is pointed out, also, internal incoherencies in the TDAH diagnostic criteria erected by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and some implications of the medicalization to the individual diagnosed and to the school context.

Keywords : medicalization; TDAH; education.

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