What children and young people learn about ADHD from youth information books: A text analysis of nine books on ADHD available in Dutch
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Published Online: Jan 30, 2020
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/sjcapp-2020-001
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Biomedical and psychosocial view-dependent elements found in nine youth information books on ADHD
| Biomedical view | Psychosocial view | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ADHD as cause | ADHD is caused by rowdy, obstreperous and inattentive behaviour | ADHD as perceived behaviour | ADHD indicates rowdy, obstreperous and inattentive behaviours that are changeable and may abate or disappear |
| ADHD is caused by biological factors | Environmental factors | External factors are (causally) associated with rowdy, obstreperous and inattentive behaviour | |
| The diagnosis of ADHD is made by a medical specialist | Descriptive diagnosis | ADHD diagnoses are of a descriptive kind | |
| Brain abnormality | ADHD is visible in deviations in brain size and/or differences in body chemistry | Behavioural intervention | Behavioural intervention is a (most) suitable response to rowdy, obstreperous and inattentive behaviour |
| Medication | Medication is the main or most obvious treatment of ADHD | Rowdy, obstreperous and inattentive behaviour is linked to normal child behaviour | |
| Neurofeedback is a (most) suitable treatment of ADHD | |||
| Heritability | ADHD is inheritable | ||
| Persistent (chronic) | ADHD behaviours are chronic and/or unlikely to disappear |
Youth information books on ADHD written in Dutch and included in the present study
| Title and subtitle | Author | Published | Age range (ca.) | Language source | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | ADHD? Laat je niets wijsmaken! (ADHD? Don’t be fooled!) | Backer | 2005 | ≥13 | Dutch | 119 |
| 2. | Ben jij anders? Voorlichtingsboek voor kinderen met ADHD of een contactstoornis (Are you different? Information book for children with ADHD or a contact disorder) | Gerrits-Douma | 2008 | 8-12 | Dutch | 92 |
| 3. | Bijzonder druk: Mijn boek over ADHD (Especially rowdy: My book about ADHD) | Tulleners | 2013 | ≤12 | Dutch | 90 |
| 4. | Weet jij wat ADHD is? Ervaar en leer alles over kinderen met ADHD (Do you know what ADHD is? Experience and learn all about children with ADHD) | Baard | 2013 | ≥8 | Dutch | 50 |
| 5. | Ik en ADHD (Me and ADHD) | Kordelaar & Zwaan | 2013 | 8-12 | Dutch | 88 |
| 6. | Ik ken iemand met ADHD (I know someone with ADHD) | Raum | 2014 (2011 in English) | 8-11 | Transl. | 32 |
| 7. | De wereld van Tom: Meer weten over ADHD (Tom’s world: Knowing more about ADHD) | Wuts-van Haagen | 2015 | Not known | Dutch | 38 |
| 8. | Chaos in je hoofd: Als je ADHD of ADD hebt (Chaos in your head: When you have ADHD or ADD) | Eenhoorn | 2015 | 12-18 | Dutch | 122 |
| 9. | De AD(H)D survivalgids (The AD(H)D survival guide) | Taylor | 2016 (2016 in English) | 10-14 | Transl. | 117 |
The distribution of view-dependent elements per book
| Book number | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 52 | 6 | 15 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 24 | 49 | 31 | 207 | |
| ADHD as cause | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 11 | |||||
| Biological factors | 12 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 20 | ||||
| Clinical diagnosis | 4 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 21 | ||||
| Brain abnormality | 7 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 16 | 20 | 6 | 63 | |
| Medication | 18 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 14 | 65 |
| Neurofeedback | 4 | 4 | ||||||||
| Heritability | 6 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 17 | ||||
| Persistent (chronic) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||||
| 6 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 30 | 25 | 91 | |
| ADHD as perceived behaviour | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | |||||
| Environmental factors | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| Descriptive diagnosis | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 11 | |||||
| Behavioural intervention | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 21 | 66 |
| Normalisation | 2 | 4 | 6 | |||||||
| % of biomedical elements | 90 | 86 | 63 | 71 | 42 | 71 | 89 | 62 | 55 | 69 |
| relative to psychosocial | ||||||||||
| elements per book |