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  • Social Psychology
  • Cultural Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology

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  • Crises, including environmental, social, and health-related events, are pervasive globally.
  • Individual responses to crises are diverse and not universally predictable.
  • Psychology has historically addressed crises and development separately, necessitating a unified approach.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To emphasize the crucial role of crises in human and cultural development.
  • To integrate a developmental perspective for understanding crises' relevance.
  • To explore how a sociocultural psychological stance can illuminate diverse crisis experiences.

Main Methods:

  • Retracing the etymology of 'crises' and 'development'.
  • Reviewing the historical articulation of crises and development in psychology.
  • Presenting three epistemological principles for a sociocultural approach to studying crises and development.

Main Results:

  • Crises are integral to human and cultural development, not merely disruptive events.
  • A developmental lens is crucial for understanding the impact and relevance of crises.
  • Sociocultural psychology offers a framework to analyze diverse, perspectival experiences of crises across life courses.

Conclusions:

  • Crises and development are intrinsically linked and must be studied developmentally.
  • A sociocultural perspective, emphasizing temporalities, spatialities, dialogical experiences, and idiographic approaches, is vital for capturing the complexity of crises in development.