Scholars have been trying to study the relation between culture and psychopathology for quite a long time.
Despite the fact that the body of research refers to anthropology, recent findings makes scholars rethink the role culture plays in psychopathology.
Attempts to theorize culture in psychopathology led to division of embodied, situated and enactive cognition that enlightens some key issues about the role of culture.
The emergence of interdisciplinary fields also contributed to understanding of culture in psychopathology.
Studies of specific disorders promoted the idea that some social and cultural processes may contribute to the risk of development of some forms of psychopathology like mood, anxiety or psychotic disorders.
The important task is to study cultural effect on psychopathology under modern conditions, when lots of forms of cultural hybridity emerge.
Cultural neuroscience is the most promising field that may give lots of answers in the future.
I think that my experience as a kindergarten teacher and skills that may help me in getting good practice as a mental health illness center trainee. There I am sure I will have chance to observe what impact culture may have on their psychopathology and what disorders may appear consequently to some cultural issues.
I think it will develop better understanding of what can be done to prevent negative impact of some cultural issues on the progression of mental disease. I am sure that I will set a research on my own that will focus on cultural hybridity and its impact on mental health of people living in multicultural environments.
