Culture and development in children and youth.
Although culture has long been recognized as having a significant impact on human development and its variations, many child and adolescent psychiatrists and mental health clinicians assume a universal nonvariance to normal development, with the risk of identifying variations as pathologic. This article reviews the conceptual basis for the role of culture in human development, particularly psychosocial and cognitive development, presents evidence and support from field observations of children in diverse cultures, and discusses the emerging evidence from the field of cultural neuroscience. Implications for these different perspectives on future research, childhood education, and even intercultural relations are presented.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Temple University, Temple Episcopal Campus, 100 East Lehigh Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19125, USA. pumariegaa@readinghospital.org
Andres J
AJ
Pumariega
Shashank V
SV
Joshi
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002660:Child Guidance / Q000193:education / Q000941:ethics; D002665:Child Psychiatry / Q000941:ethics; D054521:Cultural Competency / Q000941:ethics / Q000523:psychology; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology; D005008:Ethnopsychology; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D009488:Neurosciences / Q000941:ethics / Q000639:trends; D010553:Personality Development; D012917:Social Adjustment; D014481:United States / Q000208:ethnology