This article reports on a Danish study on interprofessional collaboration between child
psychiatrists and educational psychologists concerning children who are categorised as …

In educational systems around the world, there is a long tradition of using psychiatric
diagnoses when providing support in the special educational field. For instance, many …

ABSTRACT A growing body of research, largely from the global North, and particularly from
North America, highlights the increasing psychiatrisation, medicalisation and …

This study investigates what role diagnoses play in institutional decision-making in regards
to provision of special educational support and in the referral of pupils from mainstream …

In this chapter, I conceptualise and explain the role of special education as one sorting
process for regular education and society. I analyse the effects of medical and psychological …

This paper reports a study to investigate the views of early childhood educators working in a
range of early childhood settings in four European countries, Denmark, Greece, Italy and the …

Current education policy is oriented towards including children with special educational
needs in mainstream classrooms. Hitherto they have been, on the whole, educated in …

This article is based on an extensive study of teaching-learning processes in special
educational settings organised for children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity …

The present study aims to compare the Italian and the Swedish systems of special scholastic
support followed by a discussion on the understandings they are founded upon and the …

Psychiatrization not only affects adults. Ever more children in Western countries are being
diagnosed with a mental disorder of behavior, such as ADHD. Children may often be …