Mendaglio, SalLisitza, Aryn2022-11-292022-11-292022-11-21Lisitza, A. (2022). The understandings and experiences of emerging adults with ADHD: a new lens (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.http://hdl.handle.net/1880/115556With ADHD on the rise, there is a plethora of research emerging on the lived experience of ADHD. The majority however, of this literature takes a third-person perspective or is cast from the dominant medical lens. Mayes and others offer critiques of the medicalization of ADHD and namely, of the arbitrary threshold by which abnormality is determined. Dabrowski offers a new perspective on pathology, deeming many of what is considered disordered symptomology to be signs of higher personal growth and development. This study aims to explore emerging adults’ perspective of their development and ADHD through the lens of Dabrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration. The study involved interpretive phenomenological analysis methodology to interview and analyze the lived experiences of five emerging adults who have reportedly been formally diagnosed with ADHD. This study is the first of its kind to explore the first-person, non-pathologized lived experience of emerging adults with ADHD through Dabrowski’s TPD. It could, in turn, help uncover unique perspectives on the development and diagnosis of ADHD, and inform appropriate supports in training, practice, and policy involving parents, teachers, and psychologists alike.engUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.ADHDlived experienceDabrowskiTheory of Positive Disintegrationadvanced developmentEducational PsychologyEducation--Social SciencesPsychology--DevelopmentalPsychology--Personalitymaster thesis