Knowledge from the Global South, including Latin America, has enriched our understanding of developmental science. Despite underrepresentation in the published literature, research from Latin America has advanced the psychology of parenting and child and adolescent development. An ecological approach is valuable in adding meaning and specificity to general cultural clusters and has revealed how responsibility, lovingness, and respect are enacted in the everyday lives of families and children. Although the evidence is not exclusive to the Global South, research from Latin America has broadened and challenged theories and accepted practices from the Global North. Examples include countering attachment theory with respect to multiple caregivers and sensitive responsiveness and problematization of children's work in terms of family responsibilities. Research from Latin America has also challenged the notion of optimal parenting styles and revealed how the cultural values of familism and respect are evidenced in the daily practices of parents and children. Latin America boasts a psychology that acknowledges the importance of the political and social context and seeks to apply psychology to addressing social problems. To fully recognize and take advantage of knowledge from the Global South, the science of psychology should refrain from promoting "best practices" and sidelining research from Latin America and other regions of the majority world; it needs to fully document autochthonous parental ethnotheories, socialization goals, and practices and promote the implementation of the goals of local communities. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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丰富南半球的发展科学：拉丁美洲的贡献。


来自南半球（包括拉丁美洲）的知识丰富了我们对发展科学的理解。尽管在已发表的文献中代表性不足，但来自拉丁美洲的研究已经推进了育儿心理学以及儿童和青少年发展。生态方法在为一般文化群增加意义和特异性方面很有价值，并揭示了责任、爱和尊重是如何在家庭和儿童的日常生活中体现的。尽管证据并非全球南方所独有，但来自拉丁美洲的研究拓宽并挑战了来自全球北方的理论和公认的做法。例子包括对抗多个照顾者的依恋理论和敏感反应，以及从家庭责任的角度对儿童工作的问题化。来自拉丁美洲的研究也挑战了最佳养育方式的概念，并揭示了家庭主义和尊重的文化价值观如何在父母和孩子的日常实践中得到证明。拉丁美洲拥有一种心理学，它承认政治和社会环境的重要性，并寻求将心理学应用于解决社会问题。为了充分认识和利用来自全球南方的知识，心理学应避免推广“最佳实践”和边缘化拉丁美洲和多数世界其他地区的研究;它需要完整记录本土的父母民族理论、社会化目标和实践，并促进当地社区目标的实施。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 （c） 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。