Abstract:Autonomy with respect to psychostimulant medication for children has proven to be problematic in the face of the many influence processes at work in a climate of uncertainty and controversy over both the diagnosis of attention deficit disorder with or without hyperactivity (ADHD) and the medications associated with it, Ritalin® and analogous medications (RAM). The reconstruction of these influence processes using the framework of social representations theory allowed, in turn, for the reconstruction of a rathe… Show more
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