Maitra B
Riverside Mental Health Trust, Child & Family Consultation Centre, London, U.K.
Int J Soc Psychiatry. 1996 Winter;42(4):287-304. doi: 10.1177/002076409604200404.
The professionalisation of the care and protection of children in the West has resulted from a complex of events that are particular to Europe, and that reflect Western cultural beliefs about the self, subjective experience and interpersonal connections. Attempts to universalise Western definitions of 'child abuse' fail to take into account the cultural and social realities of 'non-Western' children and families. Clinical material is presented from two South Asian families in Britain, and attributions of meaning by Western professionals and the South Asian family are discussed.
西方儿童照料与保护的专业化源于一系列欧洲特有的事件，这些事件反映了西方关于自我、主观体验和人际关系的文化信仰。试图将西方对“虐待儿童”的定义普遍化，未能考虑到“非西方”儿童和家庭的文化及社会现实。本文呈现了来自英国两个南亚家庭的临床资料，并探讨了西方专业人士和南亚家庭赋予的意义归属。
