Culture and Development in Children and Youth

C u l t u re a n d Development in C h i l d ren a n d Yo u t h a,b, c Andres J. Pumariega, MD *, Shashank V. Joshi, MD. KEYWORDS. Culture Development Neuroscience Cultural psychiatry Cultural neuroscience At the time of this writing, the United States is undergoing unprecedented growth in its racial, ethnic, and cultural And over the past 10 years, it has become a reality that most parents in the United States are living in cultural milieus other than those in which they were ,3 Thus, child and adolescent psychiatrists must approach all of their work under the presumption of multiculturalism, particularly if a broad defini- tion of Culture is chosen that is not limited to ethnic or racial makeup, but rather (as McDermott wrote in 1996) one that embraces the variable values, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors shared by a people, and that is transmitted between generations.

origins in social activity. He viewed development as a process of transformation of individual functioning, while various forms of social practice became internalized. Four domains of development were important to Vygotsky’s view of development: phylogenesis, sociocultural history, ontogenesis, and microgenesis. Phylogenetically,

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