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。


来自包括拉丁美洲在内的全球南方的知识丰富了我们对发展科学的理解。尽管已发表的文献代表性不足，但来自拉丁美洲的研究推进了育儿心理学以及儿童和青少年发展。生态方法对于为一般文化群体增添意义和特殊性非常有价值，并揭示了如何在家庭和儿童的日常生活中体现责任、爱心和尊重。尽管证据并非南半球所独有，但拉丁美洲的研究拓宽并挑战了北半球的理论和公认的实践。例子包括反驳关于多个照顾者的依恋理论，以及在家庭责任方面对儿童工作的敏感反应和问题化。来自拉丁美洲的研究也对最佳养育方式的概念提出了挑战，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体现。拉丁美洲拥有承认政治和社会背景重要性的心理学，并寻求应用心理学来解决社会问题。为了充分认识和利用来自南半球的知识，心理学不应提倡“最佳实践”并排斥拉丁美洲和世界其他地区的研究；它需要充分记录本土父母的民族理论、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）。