Facilitating Factors in Help-Seeking Behavior Among Vietnamese-Americans in the United States
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D)
Department
Counseling
Date of Award
Summer 8-18-2025
Abstract
Extensive research has explored factors hindering help-seeking behaviors in Asian-Americans in general and Vietnamese-Americans specifically. However, little is known about factors promoting help-seeking in this population. This gap results in an inadequate understanding of culturally relevant strategies to improve the utilization of mental health care. Using constructivist grounded theory from a critical realist perspective, this study contributes to the literature by shifting the conversation from why Vietnamese Americans avoid mental health care to how they come to embrace it. It offers a framework for understanding help-seeking not only as access and utilization, but as identity formation—an on-going process of negotiating between separation and connectedness.
Advisor
Zaidy MohdZain
Subject Categories
Medicine and Health Sciences
Recommended Citation
Lam, Huy, "Facilitating Factors in Help-Seeking Behavior Among Vietnamese-Americans in the United States" (2025). Electronic Theses & Dissertations. 1284.
https://lair.etamu.edu/etd/1284
