Abstract
Most scholars today agree that attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) could be simplified neither as a sociocultural construct nor as an exclusively neurobiological disorder. However, the association between ADHD and culture is not well established. While similar characteristics and prevalence rates have been documented across cultures and countries, the literature still indicates that culturally and linguistically minority children are less likely to be diagnosed and treated for ADHD than their nonminority peers.
This chapter proposes a comprehensive understanding of ADHD in culturally and linguistically diverse children by using ecological models of development (Bronfenbrenner U, Am Psychol 32:513–531, https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.32.7.513, 1977). This view of ADHD integrates genetic, neuropsychological, and emotional risk factors with family, social, cultural, and historic-political influences.
Guided by ecological models, findings of ADHD in culturally and linguistically diverse children are organized into the four levels of development: (1) child-level factors, (2) the microsystem, (3) the exosystem, and (4) the macrosystem. The chapter concludes with future directions for culturally relevant research and interventions for ADHD.
This chapter proposes a comprehensive understanding of ADHD in culturally and linguistically diverse children by using ecological models of development (Bronfenbrenner U, Am Psychol 32:513–531, https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.32.7.513, 1977). This view of ADHD integrates genetic, neuropsychological, and emotional risk factors with family, social, cultural, and historic-political influences.
Guided by ecological models, findings of ADHD in culturally and linguistically diverse children are organized into the four levels of development: (1) child-level factors, (2) the microsystem, (3) the exosystem, and (4) the macrosystem. The chapter concludes with future directions for culturally relevant research and interventions for ADHD.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Clinical Handbook of ADHD Assessment and Treatment Across the Lifespan |
| Editors | Johnny L. Matson |
| Publisher | Springer Cham |
| Pages | 1-15 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783031417092 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783031417085, 9783031417115 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 2023 |
Publication series
| Name | Autism and Child Psychopathology Series |
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| Publisher | Springer |
| ISSN (Print) | 2192-922X |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 2192-9238 |