Thesis (M.Tech.: Homoeopathy)-Dept. of Homoeopathy, Durban Institute of Technology, 2006 xxv, 261 leaves / The aim of the study was to evaluate the efficacy of a Nutritional Supplement (Advanced Brain Food®) and a homoeopathic complex (Quietude®) in the management of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). ADHD is primarily a childhood disorder affecting ten to twenty percent of school going children. The three main presenting features of ADHD are inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity. This triad often results in numerous adjustment difficulties for the child in the social and academic sectors (NIH Consensus Statement, 1998).

Thesis (MEdPsych (Educational Psychology)--University of Stellenbosch, 2009. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) is one of the most well-known behaviour disorders in South Africa. Limited studies regarding adolescents’ experience of their own AD/HD are available despite the extensive research on AD/HD. The purpose of this exploratory and descriptive qualitative study was to understand 7 adolescents' experience of their own AD/HD in a special school in order to identify supportive strategies. This study was approached from an interpretive and/or constructivist research paradigm. A collective case study research design was used. Data was collected by means of observation, personal documents as well as semi-structured interviews. The data was transcribed and analised according to the constant comparative method. According to the results it seems as if the adolescents’ experiences of their own AD/HD are unique. However, these unique experiences are influenced by their barriers to learning, the process of diagnosis, development, AD/HD medication and social context. The adolescents seek that others empower them to regulate their own AD/HD by: (1) trying to understand how it feels to live with AD/HD; (2) providing information regarding AD/HD; and (3) focusing on their talents and strengths. The practical implications of the results are individualized intervention, changing roles of educators and support professionals, whole school development, changing attitudes, as well as professional development. Further qualitative research is recommended to investigate adolescents’ experiences of their own ADHD.

The purpose of this study was to explore the use of EEG biofeedback in a school setting to assist students who had attentional challenges. The equipment for implementing biofeedback was relatively inexpensive and was easily integrated into the school setting. Twenty students ranging in age from 7 to 17 were recruited for this study. Data was used from 14 subjects, 12 males (2 Hispanic, 1 African American, and 10 Caucasian) and 2 females (1 Hispanic, 1 Caucasian.) The subject pool was reduced due to non-compliance or the students. moving from the school district. Significant effect size was obtained in the treatment group in areas pertaining to visual perception and motor coordination. However, significant effect sizes in other areas were obtained when the control group scores worsened. The inclusion of student subjects who, perhaps, did not meet stringent criterion of attention deficit may have skewed the results. The small number of students in the study may have hindered accurate measures of statistical significance. Conversely, the information obtained from this study may offer insight to school districts in providing their students an alternate/adjunct to psychopharmacological medication and a non- invasive method of helping students with psycho-social challenges.

Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is frequently associated with negative occupational, social and psychological outcomes among community samples of adults; as such, it is expected that college students with ADHD face similar struggles. The research targeting this group of individuals, however, is sparse and tempered by significant limitations. The current study aimed to address methodological limitations in the current literature by including instruments to formally diagnosis ADHD and comorbid disorders, utilizing psychometrically sound instruments and comparing functioning of college students with ADHD across gender and subtype. It was hypothesized that participants with ADHD would report lower GPAs, higher levels of emotional distress and negative relationship characteristics than participants without ADHD. It was also hypothesized that participants with ADHD-combined type (ADHD-C) would report higher levels of substance and alcohol use than participants with ADHD-predominately inattentive type (ADHD-I), and that participants with ADHD-I would report higher levels of anxiety and depression than participants with ADHD-C. Women diagnosed with ADHD were expected to report higher levels of anxiety and depression than men diagnosed with ADHD; whereas, men diagnosed with ADHD were expected to report higher levels of substance and alcohol use than women. MANOVA, ANOVA and Mann-Whitney U tests were conducted to test hypotheses. Results revealed no significant differences between the ADHD and comparison group on GPA and relationship characteristics. Participants diagnosed with ADHD did report significantly higher emotional distress than participants in the comparison group. No differences in GPA or relationship characteristics were found across ADHD subtype or gender. Overall, these findings provide evidence to suggest that college students with ADHD are functioning relatively well compared to their non-ADHD peers.

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a complicated psychiatric disorder that is typically first diagnosed in childhood and associated with negative outcomes in adulthood such as poor academic performance and difficulties with social relationships. ADHD can be difficult to accurately diagnose in adulthood, given the absence of clear, agreed upon ADHD symptomology in adults. In the current study, two raters used psychometrically sound instruments and diagnostically valid assessment techniques on an archival dataset to create three distinct groups: ADHD [2/3 with other mental health diagnosis (OMH)], OMH only, and no diagnosis. Findings support the value of comprehensive assessment, combined with a thorough evaluation of the material by a trained clinician, for the accurate diagnosis of ADHD for research purposes. Comparisons were made across groups to infer that college students with ADHD have lower grade point averages and academic self-concept than students without mental health diagnoses. Yet, contrary to much of the current literature, college students with ADHD seem to create as strong, deep, supportive and harmonious relationships with loved ones and close friends as their non-diagnosed peers. Clinicians working with college students with ADHD may use the results of the current study to better inform conceptualization, better recognize the innate resilience college students with ADHD likely have, and inform treatment interventions.

O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar os sentidos e significações atribuídos por professores de escolas particulares (de elite) ao Transtorno de Déficit de Atenção e Hiperatividade (TDAH). Muito já foi escrito a respeito da psicopatologização das questões escolares sob o nome de TDAH. Entretanto, poucas são as pesquisas e os estudos dirigidos especificamente à repercussão deste fato na prática dos professores e menos ainda dos professores de escolas de elite do Ensino Fundamental 1 e à compreensão dos sentidos conferidos por eles a este fenômeno. O modelo utilizado é o da pesquisa qualitativa em Psicanálise, e o trabalho está dividido em dois momentos: revisão bibliográfica sobre o tema, discutida criticamente, e a pesquisa de campo por meio de entrevistas semidirigidas. A condução das entrevistas e a análise dos resultados foram psicanaliticamente orientadas pelo referencial teórico freudlacaniano. Primeiramente, levantamos elementos do espaço social e epistêmico que revestem este controverso diagnóstico e quais seus efeitos sobre a subjetividade das crianças. Discutimos a diversidade clínica envolvida nesta nomenclatura, que reduz manifestações subjetivas e sociais à categoria de transtorno. Trouxemos uma reflexão do trajeto organicista do quadro de TDAH e apresentamos um contraponto entre a noção de transtorno e o entendimento de sintoma para Psicanálise como tratamento ao real da angústia. Num segundo momento, analisamos as entrevistas com as professoras e as dividimos em categorias. Constatamos que o discurso do capitalista, aliado ao cientificismo do discurso da ciência, vem trazendo uma série de consequências ao sujeito, entre as quais: transforma a educação em mais uma mercadoria a ser consumida, legitima a transferência da responsabilidade de certos valores educativos próprios às famílias para as mãos da escola, desresponsabiliza aqueles envolvidos com a educação da criança, inclusive ela própria, e subjuga o mal-estar do sujeito a alterações neuroquímicas. Analisando esses aspectos, o trabalho busca evidenciar a permeabilidade do discurso pedagógico ao discurso médico científico hegemônico. Observamos que essa epidemia de TDAH acaba sendo, em grande parte, engendrada por uma sociedade capitalista, calcada no consumo e no lucro e tendo como representante o poder da indústria farmacêutica. Em uma perspectiva contrária às regularidades discursivas dos ditos especialistas, as professoras entrevistadas apresentam particularidades nas condições de enfrentamento dos impasses escolares, inventando, dia após dia, estratégias para lidar com seus alunos. Assim, este trabalho pretende, também, contribuir com um espaço de reflexão ética, visando propiciar práticas educacionais mais críticas / The objective of this work is to analyze the senses and the significances assigned by teachers in private schools (elite group) to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Much has been written about the issues of school psychopathology under the name of ADHD, however, there are few researches and studies directed specifically to the impact of this fact on teachers practice - and even less on elite schools teachers of elementary school and the insight of the meanings conferred by them to this phenomenon. The model used is the qualitative research in psychoanalysis and the work is divided into two stages: bibliographic review on the subject, critically discussed, and field research through semi-structured interviews. The conduct of the interviews and analysis of the results were psychoanalytically oriented through Freud-Lacan theoretical framework. First, we raised elements of social and epistemic space lining this controversial diagnosis and its effects on children subjectivity. We discussed the clinical diversity involved in that nomenclature which reduces subjective and social events to the category of a disorder. We have brought a reflection of the organicist path box ADHD and present a counterpoint between the notion of disorder and the understanding of symptom for Psychoanalysis as a treatment to the real of the angst. In a second stage, we analyzed the interviews with the teachers and divided them into categories. We noticed that the capitalist discourse, allied to the scientificism of the science discourse has brought a number of consequences to the subject including: turned education into a commodity to be consumed, legitimized the transfer of responsibility for certain families own educational values to the hands of the school, didnt blame those involved with the child\'s education, including herself, and subdued the malaise of the subject to neurochemical changes. Analyzing these aspects, this work seeks to demonstrate the permeability of pedagogic discourse to the hegemonic scientific medical discourse. We observed that this \"epidemy of ADHD\" ends up being largely engendered by a capitalist society grounded in consumption and income, having for major elective representantive the power of the pharmaceutical industry. On a counter perspective to the discursive regularities of said experts, the teachers who were interviewed show some particularities in terms of confrontation school impasses, \"inventing\" day after day, strategies for dealing with their students. This study also aims to contribute to an area of ethical reflection to provide more critical educational practices

Trata-se de um trabalho que apresenta elaborações teóricas e pesquisa de campo, na modalidade de pesquisa qualitativa, e que teve como objetivo investigar os sentidos e significados atribuídos ao diagnóstico de Transtorno de Déficit de Atenção e Hiperatividade (TDAH) por adultos clinicamente avaliados como portadores do transtorno na infância. Utilizou-se na pesquisa de campo o instrumento de entrevistas semi-dirigidas, ao qual se buscou engajar o espectro da história oral como suporte para esse instrumental. A condução das entrevistas e posterior análise dos resultados foram psicanaliticamente orientadas através do referencial teórico freud-lacaniano. Com o estudo teórico e a revisão da literatura, analisamos as configurações psíquicas que tais fenômenos, como o TDAH, suscitam e seus efeitos no estabelecimento do laço social. Constatou-se, também, que os modos de organização da vida social na atualidade, evidenciam determinadas formas de pensar e agir, dentre as quais se incluem fenômenos como a desatenção, a hiperatividade e a impulsividade. Na pesquisa de campo, dispôs-se um espaço de encontro com os entrevistados, convocando-os a falar sobre o conjunto de sintomas agenciado pelo transtorno, destacando-se suas implicações nos âmbitos da vida familiar, afetiva, do trabalho e na construção da identidade subjetiva. Buscou-se, também, reforçar a pertinência da psicanálise nos casos que colocam em perspectiva certos impasses no processo de alteridade e identidade e que revelam a ação (acting) como forma privilegiada de expressão do mal-estar. Através do ato psicanalítico, torna-se possível propiciar ao sujeito um momento de subversão que possibilita a ruptura com o ponto de apoio que estabelece com o saber construído a seu respeito, para que então se crie algo novo, abrindo espaço para aquilo que escapa à realidade biológica e faz emergir a dimensão simbólica dos processos psíquicos e corporais, a partir da forma singular com que o sujeito pode, então, nomear aquilo que lhe afeta / It is a work that presents theoretical elaborations and a qualitative field research, aimed to investigate the meanings attributed to the diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) by adults clinically assessed as carriers of the disorder in childhood. In the field research, it was used the instrument of the semi-directed interviews, which engaged the spectrum of oral history as support for this instrumental. Interviews conduction and subsequent result analysis were psychoanalytically oriented through the Freudian-Lacanian theoretical framework. With the theoretical study and the literature review , we analyze the psychic configurations such phenomena, as ADHD, raise and their effects on establishment of social ties. It was found that modes of organization of social life nowadays highlight certain ways of acting and thinking including phenomena such as inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity. In the field research, interviewees were stimulated to talk about symptoms intermediated by the disorder, highlighting its implications in the areas of family, love life, work and the construction of subjective identity. It was also sought to strengthen the relevance of psychoanalysis in cases that put into perspective some of the impasses of otherness and identity process and show the action (acting) as a privileged form of malaise expression. Through the psychoanalytic act, it becomes possible to provide the subject a subversion moment that allows the break with the foothold established with the knowledge built about him, so he can create something new, making room for what escapes biological and brings out the symbolic dimension of psychic and bodily processes, from the singular way in which the subject can, then, nominate what affects himself

The diploma thesis deals with experiences of the teacher to pupils who were diagnosed with ADHD syndrome (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). The aim of this thesis was to find out what teachers see as the main issue while they work with children and what factors influence the relationshiop between teacher and pupil. The first part of the thesis describes the behaviour of child with ADHD in the school enviroment, relationships between teacher and pupil, school and family, and emotional experiences of pedagogues. Theoretical part is based on previous researches. The empirical part deals with qualitative research which is trying to find out what perspective educators have on ADHD issue and on problematic behaviour of children. The outcomes show, that teachers are focused on getting information from family enviroment. These information help them to better understand the pupil with ADHD. The most common problem faced by teachers is non- functional communication, parent's lack of cooperation, the predominance of negative emotions experienced by teachers and constant necessity to find new methods which could help the pupil with ADHD in educational proces. Keywords The pupil, problematic behavior, school, education, teacher's perspective, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:40:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Larissa Maria Garib do Amaral.pdf: 665248 bytes, checksum: 9563625e015943d8ad9627a2e7270d86 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-11-26 / This study was dedicated to a revision of the literature published in Brazil, in the period from 1999 to 2009, about the instruments used in order that been established the diagnosis of the Disorder of the Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). We look the protocols investigate which neuropsicológicos and scales of evaluation more used in order that the diagnosis been still established, as well as the possible differences between the predominances of the disorder as a result of the instrument of inquiry and, the personality's characteristics of the children considered hyperactive through the evaluations of projective tests, with intention of collaborating for the explanation of the diagnostic process. We check that there is a diversity of instruments of evaluation and that those bring differences in the predominance of the disorder. The tests neuropsicológicos, what examine the executive functions, appeared appropriate in the investigation of specific difficulties like selective attention, inhibitory control and flexibility and the projective tests pointed to characteristics of the psychological functioning of the children and adolescents with TDAH like feelings of anguish and difficulties in the processing of the emotions. These results point to the necessity of integration of the protocols of evaluation aiming at a global understanding of the patient with the disorder / Este estudo se dedicou a uma revisão da literatura publicada no Brasil, no período de 1999 a 2009, acerca dos instrumentos utilizados para se estabelecer o diagnóstico do Transtorno do Déficit de Atenção/Hiperatividade (TDAH). Buscamos investigar quais os protocolos neuropsicológicos e escalas de avaliação mais utilizadas para se estabelecer o diagnóstico, bem como as possíveis diferenças entre as prevalências do transtorno em decorrência do instrumento de pesquisa e ainda, as características de personalidade das crianças consideradas hiperativas por meio das avaliações de testes projetivos, com intuito de colaborar para o esclarecimento do processo diagnóstico. Verificamos que existe uma diversidade de instrumentos de avaliação e que esses acarretam diferenças na prevalência do transtorno. Os testes neuropsicológicos, que examinam as funções executivas, mostraram-se adequados na investigação de dificuldades específicas como atenção seletiva, controle inibitório e flexibilidade e os testes projetivos apontaram características do funcionamento psíquico das crianças e adolescentes com TDAH como sentimentos de angústia e dificuldades no processamento das emoções. Esses resultados apontam para a necessidade de integração dos protocolos de avaliação visando um entendimento global do paciente com o transtorno

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2016-11-29T11:25:10Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Alexandre Matias Russo.pdf: 3219821 bytes, checksum: 256f85186b184fdc75aba4e4b24d2fcb (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-11-29T11:25:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Alexandre Matias Russo.pdf: 3219821 bytes, checksum: 256f85186b184fdc75aba4e4b24d2fcb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-08-31 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This study, inserted in the search line Information Technology and Mathematics Education, aims to verify the Khan Academy platform's contribution to the learning of Mathematics students diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - ADHD. To reach that goal, this work is guided by two questions: How extent the Khan Academy platform can contribute to the improvement of Mathematical knowledge of students diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder? Is it possible that the interaction of the student with the Khan Academy platform environment contribute to this improvement? The participants of this research are students enrolled in high school and diagnosed with ADHD. Faced with this research proposal, we present an outline of the history of ADHD since the XIX century, passing through various nomenclatures used up to the present day and the views of experts on this topic. We conducted a literature review on technological interventions for teaching and learning of mathematical content for students with ADHD and Mathematics Education. These researches have contributed to our study and brought relevant aspects of the learning of these students. We present the Khan Academy platform, we check how the Mathematical contents are proposed and available and we choose themes to be worked with the participants. All Mathematics contents were studied in the Khan Academy platform, as well as activities proposed in the paper. We describe the activities of the students in each meeting and their initial analysis of the protocols of the resolutions made and subsequently, the final analysis of the research. We end with the final considerations and conclude with the data presented, that the actions of students diagnosed with ADHD, through the interactions with the platform enable to achieve, understand and improve the subjects studied and contributed to the improvement of the proposed Mathematical knowledge and learning of these schoolchildren / O presente estudo, inserido na linha de pesquisa Tecnologias da Informação e Educação Matemática, tem como objetivo verificar a contribuição da plataforma Khan Academy para a aprendizagem da Matemática de alunos diagnosticados com Transtorno de Déficit de Atenção e Hiperatividade – TDAH. Para alcançar esse objetivo, norteamos este trabalho por duas questões: em que medida a plataforma da Khan Academy pode contribuir para o aprimoramento do conhecimento matemático de alunos diagnosticados com Transtorno de Déficit de Atenção e Hiperatividade? É possível que a interação do aluno com o ambiente da plataforma Khan Academy contribua para este aprimoramento? Os sujeitos participantes dessa pesquisa são alunos regularmente matriculados no Ensino Médio e diagnosticados com TDAH. Frente a esta proposta de investigação, apresentamos um esboço da história do TDAH desde o século XIX, passando pelas diversas nomenclaturas até a utilizada nos dias atuais e a visão dos especialistas sobre esse tema. Realizamos uma revisão bibliográfica sobre intervenções tecnológicas para o ensino e aprendizagem de conteúdos matemáticos para alunos com TDAH e Educação Matemática. Essas pesquisas contribuíram para o nosso estudo e trouxeram aspectos relevantes sobre a aprendizagem desses estudantes. Apresentamos a plataforma Khan Academy, verificamos como os conteúdos matemáticos são propostos e disponibilizados e escolhemos temas para serem trabalhados com os participantes. Os conteúdos de Matemática abordados foram estudados na plataforma Khan Academy, como também propostos em atividades no papel. Descrevemos as atividades realizadas pelos alunos em cada encontro e as respectivas análises iniciais dos protocolos das resoluções realizados e, posteriormente, as análises conclusivas da pesquisa. Finalizamos com as considerações finais e concluímos, com os dados apresentados, que as ações dos alunos diagnosticados com TDAH, por meio das interações com o ambiente da plataforma, permitiram resgatar, compreender e aprimorar os temas estudados e contribuíram para o aprimoramento dos conhecimentos matemáticos propostos e para a aprendizagem desses escolares