Le TDA/H, un diagnostic qui agite les familles. Les quêtes diagnostiques autour d’enfants agités, entre rupture et continuité
Abstract
This paper deals with the links between health problems and trajectories. Analyzing the example of children diagnosed with ADHD, it underlines the role of the diagnostic quests, i.e. the efforts to find sense and solutions that the young people and their relatives produce to cope with their difficulties. Those quests can follow various directions because they are influenced not only by past social characteristics and trajectories (gender, social class, kinship configuration…) but also by present issues which require daily arrangements and decisions for the future (in terms of schooling, education, treatment…). Our 45 interviews with children and/or relatives highlight the factors of these variations, which appear to be particularly numerous and complex, but which give tools to analyze many other confrontations with health problems.
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