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Culture and Developmental Psychopathology

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Human development is a complex phenomenon that must be understood with cultural context taken into account (e.g., Vygotsky, 1978). Culture may affect development through various processes such as facilitation and suppression of specific behaviors (Weisz, Weiss, Suwanlert, & Chaiyasit, 2006). Cultural norms and values may also provide a frame of reference for social evaluations of, and responses to, behaviors and thus attribute “meaning” to the behaviors. As a result, whether and to what extent a behavior is adaptive or maladaptive depend largely on cultural context.

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  1. Institute for the Study of Child Development, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA

    Michael Lewis

  2. Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA

    Karen D. Rudolph

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Chen, X., Fu, R., Leng, L. (2014). Culture and Developmental Psychopathology. In: Lewis, M., Rudolph, K. (eds) Handbook of Developmental Psychopathology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9608-3_12

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