Perceção dos encarregados de educação, de uma escola do 1º ciclo do ensino básico, do Concelho de Sintra, relativamente à perturbação de hiperatividade e défice de atenção

: estudo exploratório

Abstract

Many claims are often made with some levity, which currently lead to a
trivialization ode the term hyperactivity. All this resulted in popularizing this disorder
diagnosis, which causes children with behavioural modifications are immediately
identified as hyperactive child, often without trying to understand what factors or
variables behind such behaviours.
With this work we intend to understand how this disturbs perceived by families of
children with ADHD attending the 1st stage of basic Portuguese Education. The
methodology of this study is qualitative in nature. For its practical implementation, we
used the structured interview as a tool for data collection, presented and discussed later.
During our investigation we found that family dynamics are affected, emerging
more concerns within the family. We conclude that at the time of the diagnosis, the
parents showed guilty and worry. These parents question themselves daily about their
responsibilities, they ask themselves where they went wrong, and what did they do to
deserve this. By questioning the parents about what worries them now, we found that
their concern is about the school and the whole process of teaching/learning. The
teaching/learning process is the major concern because the time of your child’s learning
is distinct from learning time of the “normal” child. There are still concerns about how
they will integrate, socialize with adults and with peers, because they will not be treated
the way they are treated at home, because their colleagues can discriminate and may not
be interested in her.
When we ask parents about their future perspectives/concerns, their concerns are
more related to the teaching / learning process. When we questioned the
caregivers about the relevance of meetings and discussions, with other children
guardians with the same problem, most of the caregivers considered appropriate to
conduct them. In this discussion, stands the importance of parents education to improve
communication and intervention with these children.

Date of Award	4 Apr 2012
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Sofia Campos (Supervisor) & Célia Ribeiro (Co-Supervisor)