Meredith Bergey
Biographic Data
| ID | 263552 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meredith Bergey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Meredith |
| FAMILY NAME | Bergey |
| SIGNATURE | BERGEY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Villanova University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5132-0811 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
“If it’s going to be, it’s up to me. . .”: Health-related coaching, personal responsibility, empowerment, digital health, and the expanding practice of ADHD care
Despite the emergence of various “health coaches” in recent decades, little is known about the nature of their work in addressing medicalized conditions. Utilizing in-depth interviews with 51 ADHD coaches, participant observation data from 7 ADHD national symposia, and qualitative content from ADHD coach publications, I examine access to and characteristics of the practice of coaching for a classic case of medicalization: attention deficit hypera…
Medicalization in Global Context: Current Insights, Pressing Questions, and Future Directions Through the Case of ADHD
Recent decades have witnessed the increased emergence and global application of medicalized meanings and practices related to mental health, with cases of contestation, adoption, as well as resistance observed. Such globalization raises a number of important sociological questions about the nature and consequences of such practices, as well as what they might mean for the changing nature of medicalization. Focusing on a classic case within medica…
Pills Don't Teach Skills: ADHD Coaching, Identity Work, and the Push toward the Liminal Medicalization of ADHD
Despite physicians' near monopoly over medicalization historically, various stakeholder groups shape an increasingly complex process today. This study examines a relatively new initiative, 'health coaching,' within the context of the changing nature of medicalization. Utilizing 51 in-depth interviews with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) coaches, participant observation from seven ADHD symposia, and ADHD coach publications, I exami…
Deserving but not entitled: The social construction of autism spectrum disorder in federal policy
Mapping mental health inequalities: The intersecting effects of gender, race, class, and ethnicity on ADHD diagnosis
While the effects of social stratification by gender, race, class, and ethnicity on health inequalities are well-documented, our understanding of the intersecting consequences of these social dimensions on diagnosis remains limited. This is particularly the case in studies of mental health, where 'paradoxical' patterns of stratification have been identified. Using a Bayesian multi-level random-effects Poisson model and a nationally representative…
The Effect of Medical Home on Shared Decision-Making for Caregivers of Children with Emotional, Developmental, or Behavioral Health Conditions
Invisible work and changing roles: Health information technology implementation and reorganization of work practices for the inpatient nursing team
Medicalization: Sociological and Anthropological Perspectives
The impending globalization of ADHD: Notes on the expansion and growth of a medicalized disorder
Negotiating Health-Related Uncertainties: Biomedical and Religious Sources of Information and Support
Religion and Decisions About Marriage, Residence, Occupation, and Children
Using data from the first wave of the Portraits of American Life Study (PALS), we consider the extent to which people report that religious factors influence their decisions about career choice, marriage, residency, and number of children. We find significant positive relationships between the importance of religion or religious faith and the perceived influence of religious factors on one's choice of occupation, decision about whether or whom to…
Behavioral and perceived stressor effects on urinary catecholamine excretion in adult samoans
OBJECTIVES: The effects of perceptions and behaviors related to culturally patterned socioeconomic obligations on catecholamine excretion rates were studied in a cross-sectional sample of Samoan adults. METHODS: A total of 378 participants, ages 29-62 years, from 9 villages throughout Samoa, provided timed overnight urine specimens, and self-reported perceptions and behaviors associated with contributions to one's family, aiga, and chief, matai, …
Ecological and sociodemographic effects on urinary catecholamine excretion in adult Samoans
General residential exposure to modernization in urban villages is a significant correlate of increased overnight catecholamine excretion rates and is consistent with past studies. Caffeine consumption in younger women plays a complex role in stress-related catecholamine excretion. Further studies of individual level attitudinal and behavioural factors in Samoans are needed to understand psychosocial stress, physiologic arousal and health
The impending globalization of ADHD: Notes on the expansion and growth of a medicalized disorder
Invisible work and changing roles: Health information technology implementation and reorganization of work practices for the inpatient nursing team
Pills Don't Teach Skills: ADHD Coaching, Identity Work, and the Push toward the Liminal Medicalization of ADHD
Despite physicians' near monopoly over medicalization historically, various stakeholder groups shape an increasingly complex process today. This study examines a relatively new initiative, 'health coaching,' within the context of the changing nature of medicalization. Utilizing 51 in-depth interviews with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) coaches, participant observation from seven ADHD symposia, and ADHD coach publications, I exami…
Deserving but not entitled: The social construction of autism spectrum disorder in federal policy
Religion and Decisions About Marriage, Residence, Occupation, and Children
Using data from the first wave of the Portraits of American Life Study (PALS), we consider the extent to which people report that religious factors influence their decisions about career choice, marriage, residency, and number of children. We find significant positive relationships between the importance of religion or religious faith and the perceived influence of religious factors on one's choice of occupation, decision about whether or whom to…
Medicalization in Global Context: Current Insights, Pressing Questions, and Future Directions Through the Case of ADHD
Recent decades have witnessed the increased emergence and global application of medicalized meanings and practices related to mental health, with cases of contestation, adoption, as well as resistance observed. Such globalization raises a number of important sociological questions about the nature and consequences of such practices, as well as what they might mean for the changing nature of medicalization. Focusing on a classic case within medica…
Mapping mental health inequalities: The intersecting effects of gender, race, class, and ethnicity on ADHD diagnosis
While the effects of social stratification by gender, race, class, and ethnicity on health inequalities are well-documented, our understanding of the intersecting consequences of these social dimensions on diagnosis remains limited. This is particularly the case in studies of mental health, where 'paradoxical' patterns of stratification have been identified. Using a Bayesian multi-level random-effects Poisson model and a nationally representative…
Ecological and sociodemographic effects on urinary catecholamine excretion in adult Samoans
General residential exposure to modernization in urban villages is a significant correlate of increased overnight catecholamine excretion rates and is consistent with past studies. Caffeine consumption in younger women plays a complex role in stress-related catecholamine excretion. Further studies of individual level attitudinal and behavioural factors in Samoans are needed to understand psychosocial stress, physiologic arousal and health
Behavioral and perceived stressor effects on urinary catecholamine excretion in adult samoans
OBJECTIVES: The effects of perceptions and behaviors related to culturally patterned socioeconomic obligations on catecholamine excretion rates were studied in a cross-sectional sample of Samoan adults. METHODS: A total of 378 participants, ages 29-62 years, from 9 villages throughout Samoa, provided timed overnight urine specimens, and self-reported perceptions and behaviors associated with contributions to one's family, aiga, and chief, matai, …
Religion and Decisions About Marriage, Residence, Occupation, and Children
Using data from the first wave of the Portraits of American Life Study (PALS), we consider the extent to which people report that religious factors influence their decisions about career choice, marriage, residency, and number of children. We find significant positive relationships between the importance of religion or religious faith and the perceived influence of religious factors on one's choice of occupation, decision about whether or whom to…
Negotiating Health-Related Uncertainties: Biomedical and Religious Sources of Information and Support
The impending globalization of ADHD: Notes on the expansion and growth of a medicalized disorder
Medicalization: Sociological and Anthropological Perspectives
Invisible work and changing roles: Health information technology implementation and reorganization of work practices for the inpatient nursing team
The Effect of Medical Home on Shared Decision-Making for Caregivers of Children with Emotional, Developmental, or Behavioral Health Conditions
Deserving but not entitled: The social construction of autism spectrum disorder in federal policy
Mapping mental health inequalities: The intersecting effects of gender, race, class, and ethnicity on ADHD diagnosis
While the effects of social stratification by gender, race, class, and ethnicity on health inequalities are well-documented, our understanding of the intersecting consequences of these social dimensions on diagnosis remains limited. This is particularly the case in studies of mental health, where 'paradoxical' patterns of stratification have been identified. Using a Bayesian multi-level random-effects Poisson model and a nationally representative…
Medicalization in Global Context: Current Insights, Pressing Questions, and Future Directions Through the Case of ADHD
Recent decades have witnessed the increased emergence and global application of medicalized meanings and practices related to mental health, with cases of contestation, adoption, as well as resistance observed. Such globalization raises a number of important sociological questions about the nature and consequences of such practices, as well as what they might mean for the changing nature of medicalization. Focusing on a classic case within medica…
Pills Don't Teach Skills: ADHD Coaching, Identity Work, and the Push toward the Liminal Medicalization of ADHD
Despite physicians' near monopoly over medicalization historically, various stakeholder groups shape an increasingly complex process today. This study examines a relatively new initiative, 'health coaching,' within the context of the changing nature of medicalization. Utilizing 51 in-depth interviews with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) coaches, participant observation from seven ADHD symposia, and ADHD coach publications, I exami…
“If it’s going to be, it’s up to me. . .”: Health-related coaching, personal responsibility, empowerment, digital health, and the expanding practice of ADHD care
Despite the emergence of various “health coaches” in recent decades, little is known about the nature of their work in addressing medicalized conditions. Utilizing in-depth interviews with 51 ADHD coaches, participant observation data from 7 ADHD national symposia, and qualitative content from ADHD coach publications, I examine access to and characteristics of the practice of coaching for a classic case of medicalization: attention deficit hypera…
Psychology (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Psychiatry (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Public health (5 works) · Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Medicalization (4 works) · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations (4 works)