Future Direction
Suggestions to Limit
negative side effects of medication and ADHD labeling:
Jacobson (2002) suggests that
instead of just labeling students hyperactive or distractible to look at his or
her classroom behavior has a whole rather than several major instances.
Jacobson discusses that while observing classrooms many times teachers would
allow certain “non-hyperactive” students to engage in the same activities (such
as talking to other classmates) as “hyperactive” students, but without the same
repercussions. It is suggested that teachers implement more than one baseline
for what is “normal” and not to constantly dismiss students that have been
diagnosed with ADHD.
Conrad and Potter (2000) deal with
the issues head on, of labeling children at a young age and the effect that it
can have when this person is no longer a child but rather an adult.
Unfortunately there are some cases in which a hyperactive child does not
“outgrow” the symptoms associated with ADHD and have problems as adults. This
is important to note with respect to future suggestions of ADHD treatment and
medication because as aforementioned in the “effects of medications,” where
Erler (2013) had suggested that medicating a child can have the negative
effects.
Within the past decades and the
explosion of media the diagnosis of ADHD has spread and attributed to
restlessness, boredom and “criteria recognize the disorder without hyperactivity
(Conrad & Potter, 2000).” This means that more and more “symptoms” that
were not previous associated with ADHD have been lumped into those that are.
The direction in which this diagnosis is moving toward is the medicalization of
social problems. There is more expected of people today than there was a decade
or two ago. This has lead to those unable to keep up feeling inadequate and as
if there is something wrong with them.
A major future issue for all of
these newly diagnosed children with ADHD is what is going to happen when they grow
up? Are they going to use this as a crutch into adulthood or are they going to
have the skills to “outgrow” it? These are just some questions of many that
arise when social problems start to become medical problems. Loe and Cuttino
(2008) pose questions similar to these and describe testimonies from past ADHD Adderall
patients as better off without the medication.
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