A psicopatologização da infância no contemporâneo: um estudo sobre a expansão do diagnóstico de transtorno de déficit de atenção e hiperatividade

• Autor(a) principal: Ferrazza, Daniele de Andrade [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Rocha, Luiz Carlos da [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/interthesis/article/view/1807-1384.2011v8n2p237; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/126926
• topic: Psycho-pathologization; Childhood; Medicalization; Attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity (ADHD); Psicopatologización; Infancia; Medicalización; Trastorno por Déficit de Atención e Hiperactividad (TDAH); Psicopatologização; Infância; Medicalização; Transtorno de déficit de atenção e hiperatividade (TDAH)

The expansion of psychiatric labeling does not reach only the adult population, but also the problematic related to childhood have been captured by the speeches and practices of the medical-psychiatric knowledge and turned into psychopathologies which tend to be treated with the main resource made available by psychiatrics in the present times: the psychotropic drugs. This work presents a critical thinking on the expansion of the diagnoses of “attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity” (ADHD) both in children and teenagers and on the conduction of drug therapies. It follows that the processes of childhood psycho-pathologization and the trivializing of psychotropic drug prescription are related to the overvaluation of the biological conception of psychic suffering and to the economic interests of the great pharmaceutical laboratories which by means of several strategies influence the medical practices, factors that lead to exposure of these patients to possible side effects and the risks of stigmatization that must be considered.