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Essay / Case Study: Matt's Case (ADHD) - 1030
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity DisorderCase Study Matt's Case involves a child named Matt who is at the end of first grade. Matt struggles to concentrate in class despite having a higher IQ and high expectations from his teacher and parents. After being diagnosed with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), the study explains what treatment is used and how Matt responds to the treatment. What I LearnedReading Matt's case study made me realize that people with ADHD often have smaller brains than people without ADHD. Surprisingly, this does not mean that the person with ADHD has a lower IQ than other people. I found it interesting that having a smaller brain. Other biological factors may include functional abnormalities in frontal regions of the brain, which are linked to executive functions, attention, and response inhibition. However, it is unclear from the case study on Matt whether or not this affected his ADHD. Psychologically speaking, Matt had difficulty staying focused on a subject and was often bored with what he was doing at the moment, making it difficult to play with peers who weren't as active. Peer problems due to ADHD are also a social dimension and could cause problems for Matt interfering with his peers. Looking at the multipath model from a sociocultural perspective, Matt comes from a family with four other siblings and two parents to care for all of those children. Having five children threw Matt's parents into a stressful family atmosphere where Matt's hyperactive behavior went unnoticed because there were many things to watch out for. It's common to overlook ADHD in children because many children have a lot of energy and need to be entertained at all times. In Matt's case, the multipath model overlaps and the four paths interfere with each other. The case study on Matt particularly shows the social, sociocultural and psychological dimensions. However, there is a lack of information on Matt's biological aspects, making the biological dimension difficult to pin down..