Dr Carol Gray Brunton C.GrayBrunton@napier.ac.uk
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Negotiating Parental Accountability in the Face of Uncertainty for Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Gray Brunton, Carol; McVittie, Chris; Ellison, Marion; Willock, Joyce
Authors
Chris McVittie
Marion Ellison
Joyce Willock
Abstract
Despite extensive research into attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), parents’ constructions of their
children’s behaviors have received limited attention. This is particularly true outside North American contexts, where
ADHD is less established historically. Our research demonstrates how United Kingdom parents made sense of ADHD
and their own identities postdiagnosis. Using discourse analysis from interviews with 12 parents, we show that they
drew from biological and social environmental repertoires when talking about their child’s condition, paralleling
repertoires found circulating in the United Kingdom media. However, in the context of parental narratives, both these
repertoires were difficult for parents to support and involved problematic subject positions for parental accountability
in the child’s behavior. In this article we focus on the strategies parents used to negotiate these troublesome identities
and construct accounts of moral and legitimate parenting in a context in which uncertainties surrounding ADHD existed and parenting was scrutinzed.
Citation
Gray Brunton, C., McVittie, C., Ellison, M., & Willock, J. (2014). Negotiating Parental Accountability in the Face of Uncertainty for Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Qualitative Health Research, 24(2), 242-253. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732314522108
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Online Publication Date | Feb 4, 2014 |
Publication Date | 2014-02 |
Deposit Date | Jun 3, 2015 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 28, 2024 |
Print ISSN | 1049-7323 |
Electronic ISSN | 1552-7557 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 24 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 242-253 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732314522108 |
Keywords | attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); discourse analysis; medicalization; parenting; uncertainty; |
Public URL | http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/8406 |
Publisher URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732314522108 |
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