A Strengths-Based Approach to Neurodiversity
A 4-pronged approach could help neurodiverse populations thrive.
KEY POINTS
Most approaches to ADHD, autism, and related conditions still operate from a medical, deficits-based model.
The neurodiversity movement, by contrast, favors a strengths-based model.
A recently proposed 4-pronged approach could help identify and nurture the strengths of neurodiverse individuals.Most approaches to ADHD, autism, and related conditions still operate from a medical, deficits-based model.
The neurodiversity movement, by contrast, favors a strengths-based model.
A recently proposed 4-pronged approach could help identify and nurture the strengths of neurodiverse individuals.
Our current thinking about mental health is still disproportionately influenced by what's known as the medical model, which conceptualizes cognitive differences in terms of disability or disease. Terms like autism spectrum disorder (often called simply autism or abbreviated to ASD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), for example, derive from a disability-focused view. In many ways, our current thinking still focuses primarily on deficits and those behaviors and cognitions that people with autism or ADHD cannot perform as well as individuals without such a diagnosis.
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