Personal Safety in Cross-Cultural Transition (Peace Corps): Handouts for volunteer workshop on handling difficult situations and peer counseling: Unit three: Handout 7: Common reactions to assault

Personal Safety in Cross-Cultural Transition (Peace Corps)

Handouts for volunteer workshop on handling difficult situations and peer counseling: Unit three

		Handout 1: Volunteers' advice to new volunteers
		Handout 2: Critical incident: possible sexual overtures by host country supervisor to female PCV
		Handout 3: Critical incident: Social/sexual pressure encountered by a male PVC relating to his community acceptance and identity
		Handout 4: Assertiveness rights
		Handout 5: Case study on AMY
		Handout 6: Jack
		Handout 7: Common reactions to assault
		Handout 8: The awareness wheel
		Handout 9: Behavior checklist non-verbal attending behavior

The following are common reactions experienced by victims of emotional and physical assault.

VERBAL ASSAULT

anger	humiliation
frustration	fear

ROBBERY

anger	helplessness
frustration	fear of place where assault occurred, and of similar places
isolation
guilt	can't sleep, or wakes up and can't return to sleep

BEATING

RAPE