The McDonaldization of Childhood: Children’s Mental Health in Neo-liberal Market Cultures

Timimi, Sami

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“…The growing criticism of psychiatry for pathologizing and medicalizing childhood (Conrad, 1982(Conrad, , 1992Harwood, 2009;Harwood and Allan, 2014;Prosser, 2008;Timimi, 2002Timimi, , 2010 and of the colonization of mental health by the biological model (Read, 2005;Singh, 2002;Visser and Jehan, 2009) is due to factors such as the notable rise in prevalence of disorders such as ADHD (Sánchez et al, 2008) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) (Melillo, 2013), reductively biological explanations of these conditions, and the growing number of children needing psychiatric medication in order to attend school (Graham, 2007).…”

Section: Mental Health In Schools and The Pathologization Of Childhoodmentioning

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“…Ranging from the critical views of antipsychiatry (Szaz, 1976) to the current critique of the pathologization and medicalization of childhood (Conrad, 1992;Timimi, 2002Timimi, , 2010, and including Foucault"s extensive opus (1984,1996,2005,2010), much has been written about psychiatry"s power, commercial interests and lack of *Corresponding author. E-mail: ppadillapetry@ub.edu.…”

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Mental health and inclusion seen from the childrens and teachers perspectives: A case study in Spain

Perez-Parreno¹,

Petry²

2018

Educ. Res. Rev.

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Inclusive school requires the coexistence of what is perceived as normal and what is seen as pathologically different.Considering the growing pathologization of childhood, attempt is made to know the view of the students that do not have any diagnosed mental disorder on the ones that do have and the teachers' view on the inclusion of these children. A case study was conducted in a Spanish public primary school that has an inclusive pedagogical project. Semi-structured interviews and questionnaires were used to explore the participants' views on the inclusion of children with mental health disorders. The results show that the psychopathological disorders work as differentiating elements, although most of the children have shown an openly integrative and empathic attitude. The teachers pinpoint the difference in the children that have a diagnosis of mental disorder and fail to recognize or question the pathologization of the childhood, its consequences and the role of the school.

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Section: Mental Health In Schools and The Pathologization Of Childhoodmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Mental health and inclusion seen from the childrens and teachers perspectives: A case study in Spain

Perez-Parreno¹,

Petry²

2018

Educ. Res. Rev.

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“…The analysis by Medco Health Solutions was among 2.5 million insured Americans and reported a decline in both ADHD and antidepressant medication use in children since 2005 (America's State of Mind, 2011). On the other hand, the public are right to be concerned about risk of 'the medicalization of society' and the establishment of a culture of 'a pill for every ill', and the unknown consequences of the use of psychotropic medication on the developing brains (Timini 2010).…”

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Paediatric psychotropic prescribing practices in Ireland

McNicholas¹,

Orakwue-Ononye

O'Hanrahan³

2014

Ir. j. psychol. Med.

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The use of psychotropic medication in children remains a valued and common practice in Ireland. Attitudinal and practice differences across professional groups exist, and although the experience is one of relative safety there was a strong desire for further education leading to a perceived increase in utilisation. The impact of perceived public opinion regarding psychotropic prescribing along with a lack of competence may represent a major barrier to effective prescribing, thus highlighting the importance of ongoing professional development and increased public health initiatives to increase knowledge and understanding in this increasingly important area.

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“…This migration of McDonaldization outside of the realm of strictly profit-making was recorded by Nicholson (2015) in the library system and Bohm (2006) in the judicial branch of the United States Justice System and the potential for the presence of McDonaldization was recorded by Timimi (2010) in the connection between the number of extracurricular activities children have and their (parent) evaluated success in the public sphere.…”

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McDonaldization in Households

Woolridge

Stanley-Stevens

2016

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Using data collected over three years and mimicking the methodology of Arnold et al. (2012) in Los Angeles, a study in Texas was conducted in which 66 families opened their homes and allowed video, survey data, and pictorial evidence to be collected. These data are used to determine if McDonaldization has spread from the public sphere into the private sphere by determining if the four factors of McDonaldization: predictability, calculability, efficiency, and control are present, and if so, in what ways they are represented. Ultimately, every single household studied showed instances of all four factors of McDonaldization, thus heavily supporting the hypothesis that McDonaldization has encroached into the private sphere. This phenomenon will be explained by using McDonaldization either as a rational means to pursue individualistic self-actualization as described through Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs or as a means by corporations to extend their own factor of control into the private sphere and thus influence consumers. Finally, the fifth factor of McDonaldization, irrationality emerging from rationality, was examined with examples provided.This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which allows use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18533/rss.v1i7.49 ISSN: 2378-8569 (Print), 2378-8550 (Online)McDonaldization, first described by Ritzer (1993), describes the process by which rationality is used to streamline processes to the point of irrationality. This theory draws heavily from Weber's (2003;1905) Iron Cage of Irrationality and describes the process by which rationality grows to the extreme of irrationality. However, while this process is heavily documented in several corporate and macro-sociological processes, particularly within the fast-food industry, there has not been any extensive research to determine the spread of McDonaldization into the private sphere primarily because of the theoretical barrier between the public and private spheres described by Habermas (1985).Our study draws upon the methodology of Arnold, Ragazzini, Graesch, and Och's (2012) Upon completion of the study, all sixty-five houses analyzed showed the presence of McDonaldization and each also exhibited several instances of irrationality that ultimately arises from McDonaldized systems according to Ritzer (1993).

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The McDonaldization of Childhood: Children’s Mental Health in Neo-liberal Market Cultures

Cited by 68 publications

References 25 publications

Mental health and inclusion seen from the childrens and teachers perspectives: A case study in Spain

Mental health and inclusion seen from the childrens and teachers perspectives: A case study in Spain

Paediatric psychotropic prescribing practices in Ireland

McDonaldization in Households

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