| #13359982 in Books | 2003-11-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.24 x1.12 x6.19l,1.34 | File type: PDF | 288 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Finally - a mother's perspective!|By A Customer|While this book is a pretty hard slog in some spots, it is also an important contribution to the debates about ADD. There is a lot of material out there that is either "pro" or "anti" ADD, but this book takes a different tack. The author asks mothers to explain how they have managed to find solutions and support for their children|||'Cold Comfort offers a moving, comprehensible, and credible picture of the worlds of children and mothers grappling with ADD/ADHD. Claudia Malacrida has written a book that is bound to provide a great deal of challenging insight to various sorts of rea
Mothers of children with Attention Deficit Disorder must inevitably make decisions regarding their children's diagnosis within a context of competing discourses about the nature of the disorder and the legitimacy of its treatment. They also make these decisions within an overriding climate of mother-blame. Claudia Malacrida's Cold Comfort provides a contextualized study of how mothers negotiate with/against the 'helping professions' over assessment and treatmen...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Cold Comfort: Mothers, Professionals, and Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity) Disorder | Claudia Malacrida. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.
