Course curriculum

    1. Welcome. Why culture?

    2. Cross cultural medleys: What do the clips evoke in you?

    3. Why culture?

    4. Introduction to the culture chapter in Nurturing Natures, do check out the book!

    1. What and where is culture

    2. Finik: What do you make of this?

    3. Early learning

    4. Cultural differences can be challenging to any of us

    5. Difficult questions

    6. Some differences are challenging

    7. Even more difficult!!

    1. Is anything natural?

    2. Briefly on breastfeeding

    3. Are emotions Universal? Ekman thought so

    4. A challenge to Ekman: Lisa Feldman Barrett

    5. Is the amygdala the fear centre? Not according to Lisa Feldman Barrett.

    6. Culture and complexity

    7. Why this is important in our work

    8. Thoughts on these themes

    1. An important distinction

    2. Individualistic and collectivist

    3. Sleep again

    4. Watch this video showing differences in children's pictures and how the conceptualise the world.

    5. More on perspective

    6. This is a very revealing difference in perception

    1. Attachment theory and culture

    2. In fact it is not just humans!

    3. Here is a variant of the Strange Situation procedure in the Efe people, also studied by Ed Tronik

    4. Bias in attachment theory?

    5. So, how useful is attachment theory across cultures?

    1. Stages of development and cultural difference

    2. Autobiographical memory and narratives

    3. And are how we define psychiatric disorders universal?

    4. cultural rituals

    5. Individualism is spreading

    6. Why is this important?

About this course

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  • 51 lessons
  • 1.5 hours of video content

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Instructor(s)

Graham Music

Consultant Psychotherapist

Dr. Graham Music is an internationally renowned trainer, author, and both a child and adolescent psychotherapist, as well as a speaker and supervisor. His writings have been seminal, having an impact on how we understand child and adolescent development and why this is important for anyone working with children. Professor Jeremy Holmes described him as 'The David Attenborough of child development research', and Peter Fonagy as '‘certainly one of the best and probably the most deep-thinking child psychotherapists in the world.'.