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Inside the child's head : histories of childhood behavioural disorders / Jennifer Laurence, David McCallum

Contributor(s): McCallum, David [author]

Series: Studies in Inclusive Education ; v. 4Publisher: Rotterdam : Sense Publishers, cop. 2009Description: 112 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9789087907006Subject(s): Enfermedades mentales

| Behavior disorders in children- -- Diagnosis- -- History

| Conduct disorders in children

| Behavioral assessment of children

Additional physical formats: No title

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Jennifer Laurence and David McCallum. -- Disorder in the Classroom / Jennifer Laurence and David McCallum. -- Conduct Disorder / Jennifer Laurence and David McCallum. -- Psychological Trauma / Jennifer Laurence and David McCallum. -- Future Orientations / Jennifer Laurence and David McCallum. -- The End of the Problem as we know it? / Jennifer Laurence and David McCallum. -- Notes / Jennifer Laurence and David McCallum. -- Bibliography / Jennifer Laurence and David McCallum. -- Index / Jennifer Laurence and David McCallum

Summary: Inside the Child's Head traces the emergence of biomedical diagnoses of behavior disorders in children. It provides a new critical counterpoint to the kind of myth-or-reality' debate on childhood disorders. Social policy debates about ADHD for example, inasmuch as they are conducted around essentialist dichotomies of the biological' and the social', lead into a philosophical cul-de-sac. The authors suggest that understanding and acting upon childhood disorders lie not so much in elucidating grand philosophical and etiological questions, or in pinning our hopes on new scientific discovery of what is going on in the child's head', as in the historical possibilities of the present-day make-up of this inside'. The book provides an account of the historical contexts in which the biomedical and social bases for disorders have been formulated, showing that both sets of understandings draw on common phenomena and use similar instruments to reach their conclusions. Outlined are a series of formative locations whence particular and localized governmental problems to do with managing discrete populations rub up against fairly inauspicious technical solutions, focused on pivotal events in specific institutional and social spaces. These include changes to the spatial organization of classroom; changes in the science of policing social space; the war-time development and extended clinical deployment of the electroencephalograph; the hand-in-hand emergence of computer and cognitive science; and the effects of the computer itself on the way we conceptualize brain-space. The book treats the appearance of the child with behavior disorder as an achievement of various agencies of science-and-government, rather than an initial encounter for discovering scientific truths

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Item type	Current location	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Course reserves
Libro	Biblioteca Universidad Europea del Atlántico Fondo General	No ficción	616.89 LAU ins	Available		4853	Diversidad y Educación Inclusiva

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Inside the Child's Head traces the emergence of biomedical diagnoses of behavior disorders in children. It provides a new critical counterpoint to the kind of myth-or-reality' debate on childhood disorders. Social policy debates about ADHD for example, inasmuch as they are conducted around essentialist dichotomies of the biological' and the social', lead into a philosophical cul-de-sac. The authors suggest that understanding and acting upon childhood disorders lie not so much in elucidating grand philosophical and etiological questions, or in pinning our hopes on new scientific discovery of what is going on in the child's head', as in the historical possibilities of the present-day make-up of this inside'. The book provides an account of the historical contexts in which the biomedical and social bases for disorders have been formulated, showing that both sets of understandings draw on common phenomena and use similar instruments to reach their conclusions. Outlined are a series of formative locations whence particular and localized governmental problems to do with managing discrete populations rub up against fairly inauspicious technical solutions, focused on pivotal events in specific institutional and social spaces. These include changes to the spatial organization of classroom; changes in the science of policing social space; the war-time development and extended clinical deployment of the electroencephalograph; the hand-in-hand emergence of computer and cognitive science; and the effects of the computer itself on the way we conceptualize brain-space. The book treats the appearance of the child with behavior disorder as an achievement of various agencies of science-and-government, rather than an initial encounter for discovering scientific truths