Compreendendo a relação entre diagnósticos e a vida escolar a partir de prontuários de psicologia.

Abstract

This work aims to investigate how the diagnoses of ADHD and Dyslexia relate to school life in the records of children and adolescents attending a psychology service. Data were collected from eight patient records at the Applied Psychology Service of the Federal University of Ceará, Sobral Campus. The main complaints found in the medical records were related to learning difficulties, especially reading, besides hyperactivity, difficulty concentrating and lack of attention. Most of the referrals went from the schools, even if informally, which allows us to hypothesize that, given the difficulties in the way of learning or behaving, the school transfers the problem to a specialist. We could observe processes of medicalization of life articulated to the medicalization of education, since the search for a diagnosis, a report of a specialist or treatment decontextualized, faced with difficulties presented in the school context, tends to lead to the blame of the subjects for their failure at school. It was possible to identify processes of medicalization also from the way schools relate to the difficulties presented by their students, the absence of a problematization about these difficulties and the way in which diagnoses are perceived, which is also a form of medicalization, perceived in some visits.