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Mai Thi Hiep Case Study

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1. I am picking up when Mai Thi Hiep (Heidi) is visiting her biological family in Vietnam and her siblings are talking telling her she needs to send money to help support her mother. At this point I feel Heidi is experiencing the dissonance stage, stage 2 of the (R/CID) model. She is attempting to find herself by returning to her homeland she has forgotten so much about. Since Heidi has been raised in the United States since the age of 7 and raised as a white child and told to never tell anyone she was Vietnamese she holds these values. Therefore I feel she is also experiencing Helms Disintegration stage by experiencing anxiety, guilt and anger (Erford, Hays, Crockett and Miller 2011). The anxiety Heidi is experiencing while her siblings are

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