Question

What role does culture play into the development and adaptation for children with chronic conditions?

Answer 1

Culture play a great role in nurturing everyone's development and adaptive abilities,it varies between different backgrounds. culture has an inevitable part in creating a new era of citizens with social values and virtues.

People from different backgrounds behave differently. American-Eurpoian style in drastically different from a Chinese-Korean backgrounds.

Here, children with chronic conditions also impacted by the culture of their parents and society. Certainly it does influence their ability to be adaptive and developing.

Just as children from different backgrounds are treated differently in our society. Similarly children with disorders also affected by this theory. For instance racism is an issue, sometimes it is possible for a specially abled children to get judged by their colour,race and ethnicity.

This situation can easily distroy the confidence of that compromising child,later it would be tough task for him to present himself in front of society and even in family.

Children who has bitter experiences due to their culture,can develop a feeling of insecurity and stage fear.it is considered as a developmental issue.

Meanwhile these children can be so poor in adaptive skills like communication, engagement, self feeding, personal hygiene and so on.it is the aftermath of their unpleasant experiences.

For example a child with chronic issue who born in America for American parents,it is much easier for them to adapt and develop various skills in order to support themselves due to the freedom and independence they enjoy in their families and in society.

However for a Chinese child with special needs, it is so hard for them to cop with in society since they're slightly conservative about the freedom of children in younger ages than many children in America have.it is not good for these children's development and adaptive skills.

Citation

A study on Culture and Chronic Illness in Childhood: summary of conference

Joan M. Patterson and Robert Wm Blum