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- Amiria and her parents were never close, but her parents were there for her financially.
- Because she was a shy kid who struggled with making friends, her best friend was her brother (Kauri)
- They did not share much common interest outside of the home, but were still considered each others best friend.
(Sigelman & Rider, 2015 pp. 454)

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- As an infant, Amiria and her brothers first form of attachment was their mother
- As the twins grew older, they became attached to one another
- Amiria would seek security from her brother when she was in distress
(Sigelman & Rider, 2015 pp. 440)

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- Accidents, suicide, and homicides are leading killers of adolescents and emerging adults, making this a time for sudden and traumatic death.
- Amiria's is faced with a sudden loss when her brother is killed in a car accident one night while hanging out with friends.
- Amiria experiences Kubler Ross's Stages of grief following her brother's death. These 5 stages include Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and finally Acceptance.

(Sigelman & Rider, 2015 pp.539-540)

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- After she started taking drugs and that mixing with her mental health illnesses she has started to see the world differently.
- Her parents want her to be one way.
- Her brother was the star child and now that he is gone they expect so much of him in her.
- Her teachers want her to act her age
- Her professors want her to act like an adult and be responsible
- She feels as though everyone is against her and no one cares about what she wants.
- In her mind they want her to feel this way
- They want her to feel bad all the time it is all their fault.
(Sigelman & Rider, 2015 pp.421)

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- Adolescents seem to experience more negative and mixed emotions and more emotional ups and downs than either children or adults
- Amiria struggles with anxiety and depression.
- This is because she is experiencing more emotional arousal at a time when the executive control centers of her brain have not fully developed
- Her undeveloped brain and new drug habits cause her to struggle with controlling her emotions
(Sigelman & Rider, 2015 pp.438)

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-Amiria starts experimenting with drugs as she deals with the loss of her brother and trying to figure herself out as a person
-She is with a group of friends and is caught while smoking and the cops call her parents to pick her up
-After this, her parents realize just how much she has been struggling with school, identity, and the loss of her brother and she starts seeing a therapist.

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-Amiria wants more independence from her family.
- She feels as though they are always on her about tradition and what she should be doing with her life.
- She wants to achieve autonomy and make decisions for herself.
- She wants to be her own person but she has to figure out who that is first.
- When becoming an adolescent, it is not uncommon to struggle with identity crisis. In this particular stage in life, puberty takes over and the brain as well as the body experience a lot of changes.
(Sigelman & Rider, 2015 pp. 482)

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-Adolescence is a critical period for teens and young adults to figure out who they are and how they fit into society.
- Erik Erikson's "identity versus role confusion"
- Because of her culture at home and her school environment, she struggles with figuring out who she should be outside of the home.
-Something that can help Amira develop a positive ethnic identity is communication with her parents.
- It helps when the teen's parents socialize with them regarding their race or ethnicity by teaching them about their group's cultural traditions.
- Her mother or father never prepared her to live in a culturally diverse society, therefore, causes her to feel lost and that she does not belong.

Questions arise such as:

"Should I follow my mother's footsteps and fully embrace the culture?"
"Will society accept me because I am a little bit different?"
"What is my purpose here in New York?"
(Sigelman & Rider, 2015 pp. 345-346)

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-Amiria has grown up in the age of social media and electronics, meaning her sense of identity could easily be thrown as she figures out where she fits in
-Her parents say that social media is the reason she doesn’t embrace her Maori roots as much
-Her brother says that social media is giving her a boost of confidence to not want to blend in with the rest of the Maori community
(Granic, et al., 2020)

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- When Amiria broke her arm and had to wear a cast and was very embarrassed about it.
- To make her feel better Kauri wore a cast with her until she had it removed.

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- At this time Amiria is mastering memory strategies.
- She makes list to organize her thoughts and see what she has to do for that day or class.
- This helps very much in school with studying for tests or important lectures.
(Sigelman & Rider, 2015 pp. 250)

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-Amiria is 16 years old and the development of her formal-operational thought process has lead to adolescent egocentrism.
-This means her thoughts are more inwardly focused and she's facing more difficulty differentiating her thoughts from everyone else's.
-She doesn't struggle with self-confidence as much as some teenagers, seeing as she doesn't think too much about how others feel about her.
- She struggles with poor-self identity and egocentrism because she does not think anyone feels the way she feels because of her culture. She feels as if she is the only teenager who feels guilty for not embracing her culture.
(Sigelman & Rider, 2015 pp. 225)

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-Because of her age, Amiria is developing more sophisticated schemes that help her interpret her experiences in certain environments.
-Her knowledge continues to grow as she adapts to her school environment.
-She creates new schemes and will one day apply these to develop a better understanding of the world.
(Sigelman & Rider, 2015 pp. 203)

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-Metacognition during cognitive tasks varies by gender and socioeconomic background. Adolescent girls consistently report using more metacognitive strategies than adolescent boys.

This relates to Amiria's because she struggles with her identity; she has trouble separating herself from her twin brother.

(Sigelman & Rider, 2015 pp. 244)

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- She was cooking the dinner for the child she was babysitting. It was around the child's birthdays.
- He went into his parent's room and found his birthday presents.
- When the parents got home they were upset and Amiria was fired.
-They told the neighborhood to not hire her ever again.

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- Amiria struggles with embracing her culture at home while trying to balance her life outside the home.
- Amiria worries that everyone will judge her if she embraces the culture in the New York environment.

(Hollands, et al., 2015, pp. 3–11)

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- Amiria loved painting, but that soon dwindled down because she had more schoolwork to do and they did not have that program at either of her schools.
- She either did not have time for clubs or the school did not have an art program/class.
- She could only do it at home, but she was usually doing homework or taking a mental break.
- Amiria is fostering her creativity so that she can focus her attention on other things such as school.
( Sigelman & Rider, 2015 pp. 278)

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- There are higher levels of mental disorders within the Maori culture.
- Amiria and her mother suffer the most from mental health problems such as anxiety and depression.
- Mental health is associated with a sense of strong self-identity, and a connection to one's cultural roots.
- Because her mother struggles herself, she does not know the correct ways to respond to Amelia's anxiety and depression.
- Amiria's mom feels like she failed as a mother for not raising her twins in New Zealand.
- Amiria's parents question whether teaching their kids about their culture will affect their kid's views in the U.S.
- Amiria's mother is also afraid that if her children do not embrace the Maori culture, she will make her relatives angry.

(Hollands, et al., 2015, pp. 3–11)

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- Due to being an adolescent she is better at multi-tasking than younger people.
- She has to balance work and two different schools.
- She would often do her schoolwork while babysitting.
- She can also be in class and be on her laptop online shopping.
(Sigelman & Rider, 2015 pp.185)

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- Being a perfectionist and wanting everything to be perfect has caused a strain in her life.
-  Not wanting to disappoint her family and herself with not being good enough.
- There is a correlation between trying to be perfect and anxiety.
(Damian, Negru-Subtirica, Stoeber, 2017)

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-Her sleep schedule is sporadic due to all of her stresses
-She typically sleeps really late on the weekends while not getting enough sleep on weekday since she doesn't get enough on week days.
- This makes her depression and anxiety worse since she doesn't have a set schedule.
(Sigelman & Rider, 2015, pp. 150-151)

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- She was always the shorter twin in comparison to her brother
- She was the slimmer built while her brother was more muscular.
-This is due to the fact the younger twin tends to receive less nutrients than their older twins.
(Sigelman & Rider, 2015, pp. 64, 84-85)

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Granic, I., Morita, H., & Scholten, H. (2020). Beyond Screen Time: Identity Development in the Digital Age. Psychological Inquiry, 31(3), 195–223. https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2020.1820214

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Sigelman, C. K., & Rider, E. A. (2015). Life-span human development. Stamford, CT: Cengage.

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-  She broke her arm at the age of 9 from riding bikes with her twin brother. It healed normally, leaving her with no scarring or disability.
-She doesn't ride bikes any more, even though she knows the fear is kind of irrational.
(Sigelman & Rider, 2015, pp. 139)

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-Due to stress, she has more poor nutrition than the rest of her family.
-She tries to exercise regularly to help reduce stress, but as a result, she will sometimes substitute meals for protein smoothies instead of eating actual food
(Sigelman & Rider, 2015, pp.148)

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- She had a growth spurt around 15 years old.
- She grew around 3 1/2 inches
- She had her first menstrual cycle at the age of 12.
-   She does not get the recommended 8-9 hours of sleep.
- She gets around 5-7 hours due to school work and having a job that might require staying late.
(Sigelman & Rider, 2015, pp. 143-150)

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-Amiria is left-brained, focusing more on school work and logic than creativity while her twin is the opposite.
-She tends to worry more about grades, her future job, and making sure she gets a job that she can support herself with
(Sigelman & Rider, 2015, pp. 138)

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-Since she was pregnant with twins, Amiria's mom took her health very serious
-Amiria and her brother were born via C-Section instead of vaginally
-Amiria's APGAR score was lower than her brother's since she was born second at 1 minute.
-Her APGAR score was an eight, while her brother's was a nine at 1 minute.
Sigelman & Rider, 2015, pp. 120)

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-This improve the ability to sustain attention seems to be tied to increased myelination of those portions of the brain that help regulate attention (Sigelman, Rider, 2018)

This section relates to Amiria because she's a dual-enrolled student. This section explains how adolescents are able to multitask better than adults because their attention spans are longer. Being a dual-enrolled student you have to multitask because you still have to focus on your high school work and your college assignments.

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- We see Amiria in the Formal Operational Stage.
-She is 16 and is starting to think differently than her parents.
- While she's still very family-oriented, she doesn't agree with the traditional tattoos that Maori culture. While most people in Maori culture get tattoos that are very prominent to remember something significant, she prefers smaller tattoos that are more easily hidden
- She is still compared to her brother who is okay with getting larger tattoos. Her parents take this as her trying to hide her culture.
- She also starts to try exploring outside of just the Maori culture, participating in activities that aren't usually accepted.
Sigelman & Rider, 2015, pp. 47)

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- With her depression, makes her shyer and reserved, making her struggle even more with figuring out where her family ends and where she begins.
- She focuses more on trying to prove herself than she does on learning to be happy with herself.
- Even though her family doesn't compare her to her twin brother, she still feels like she has to be equally or more successful than him.
- Her mother also suffers from depression, brought on by their family moving to America.
-Whenever she is in a depressive mood, she can always count on her twin brother to cheer her up.
(Sigelman & Rider, 2015, pp. 72-74)

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- Her anxiety comes from the stress in life she has.
- She knows she's a first-generation American and wants to make sure that the struggles her parents faced to come to America aren't wasted.
- Between high school, college, a job,  and family requirements, she is under a lot of stress and wants to make sure she doesn't disappoint her parents.
- Most people in her direct family also suffer from anxiety, all of them understanding how it feels to not exactly fit in since they're all new to America.
- She turns to her twin brother for comfort and support when she struggles with anxiety.
(Sigelman & Rider, 2015, pp. 72-74)

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- Despite her father's eye color being recessive, blue, she has her father's eyes. -- Her mother's dominant gene of brown hair was passed onto her.
-These traits also play a part in her mental health.
-She has mental health issues that her family also has.
- Her mom has depression and her entire family has anxiety
-These effect her in her every day life.
(Sigelman & Rider, 2015, pp. 67)

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- Amiria Patel is a 16-year-old first-generation American.
- She was born on January 10th, 2005 in Queens, New York.
- Her parents are from New Zealand, and her ethnicity is Maori.
- Her family is middle class.
- Her father spends most of the day working as a Lawyer
- Her mother works as an Elementary School Teacher
- She has a twin brother (Kauri) who is also in high school.
- She's currently in her junior year of high school, as a dual-enrolled student in college
- She loves art; mainly painting. Makes her less stressed.
- She also has a part-time babysitting job for about 2 years.
- She is currently in Erikson's 5th stage which is Identity vs. Confusion.
- She struggles with being her own person because of how close she is to her twin brother.
- She also struggles with finding people who relate to her ethnicity, since not many people here are Maori.
-She is very close with Kauri. He helps her through her anxiety and depression. He was her best friend growing up.