from NICHOLAS BREALEY INTERCULTURAL

SURVIVAL KIT FOR OVERSEAS LIVING

FOR AMERICANS PLANNING TO LIVE AND WORK ABROAD

L. Robert Kohls

"I have trained volunteers for short-term projects overseas and host families for international students in the USA. If I only had one book available to help with the training, it would be the Survival Kit."
A. Maureen Brians, California

This indispensable handbook provides readers with straightforward information on the potential perils of moving to a new country:

• culture shock,
• stereotyping,
• misperceptions,
• and misunderstandings

Of special note is a chapter for families moving abroad, which focuses particularly on the concerns of non-working spouses with children. There is also a chapter for short-term visitors who are interested in enriching their experience through some simple cross-cultural communication and adaptation techniques. Readers learn how to set objectives, how to become a foreigner with style and understanding, how to combat culture shock, and how to deal with re-entry.

Written in a fast-paced format with do-it-yourself instructions, Survival Kit for Overseas Living is ideal for readers ranging from businesspeople moving to Japan to college students travelling abroad for the first time.

L. Robert Kohls has thirty years' experience as an intercultural trainer and trainer of other trainers; he has worked, lived and travelled in more than eighty countries, with extensive stays in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. He is also a founding member of SIETAR International.

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