{"id":2547,"date":"2015-09-24T19:38:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T23:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/?p=2547"},"modified":"2015-09-24T19:38:07","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T23:38:07","slug":"why-french-kids-dont-have-adhd-psychology-today-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/24\/why-french-kids-dont-have-adhd-psychology-today-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why French Kids Don&#8217;t Have ADHD | Psychology Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/suffer-the-children\/201203\/why-french-kids-dont-have-adhd\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/89888-86029.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>French child psychiatrists, on the other hand, view ADHD as a medical condition that has psycho-social and situational causes. Instead of treating children&#8217;s focusing and behavioral problems with drugs, French doctors prefer to look for the underlying issue that is causing the child distress\u2014not in the child&#8217;s brain but in the child&#8217;s social context. They then choose to treat the underlying social context problem with psychotherapy or family counseling. This is a very different way of seeing things from the American tendency to attribute all symptoms to a biological dysfunction such as a chemical imbalance in the child&#8217;s brain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/suffer-the-children\/201203\/why-french-kids-dont-have-adhd\">Why French Kids Don&#8217;t Have ADHD | Psychology Today<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French child psychiatrists, on the other hand, view ADHD as a medical condition that has psycho-social and situational causes. Instead of treating children&#8217;s focusing and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}