Personal Safety in Cross-Cultural Transition (Peace Corps): Handouts for volunteer workshop on handling difficult situations and peer counseling: Unit three: Handout 9: Behavior checklist non-verbal attending behavior

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

Handout 9: Behavior checklist non-verbal attending behavior

TRIAD MEMBER ________________________________________________

Behavior Observed (Check if observed)

	You as a Discussant		You as a Listener
	Observer	Listener	Observer	Listener
A. Face and Head Movements
1. Uses affirmative head nods
2. Face rigid
3. Calm, yet expressive use of facial movements
4. Blankly staring
5. Turning eyes away when another looks at him/her
6. Spontaneous eye movements and eye contact
7. Not looking at other when talking
8. Looks directly at other person
9. Extraneous facial movements
B. Hand and Arm Movements
10. Spontaneous and fluid use of hand and arms
11. No gesturing (arms rigid)
12. Makes physical contact with other person (shakes hands, touches arm, etc.)
13. Uses hand movements for emphasis
14. Inappropriate arm and hand
C. Body Movements
15. Slouching
16. Relaxed posture but not slouching
17. Sitting in fixed, rigid position
D. Body Orientation
18. Body positioned toward other
19. Physically distant from person
20. Sits close to person with whom talking
21. Not facing other with body
E. Verbal Quality
22. Voice quiver
23. Speech blocks or stammers
24. Lack of effect
25. Inappropriate effect
26. Too loud
27. Too soft
28. Excessive use of jargon
29. Excessive use of "psychologese"
30. Excessive use of "you know.
31. Too fast
32. Too slow
F. Have you achieved a sufficiently high level of skill to progress to Stage III?

BEHAVIORAL CHECKLIST ESTABLISHING EFFECTIVE HELPING RELATIONSHIPS

HELPER __________________________________

HELPEE ___________________________________

OBSERVER _________________________________

	Observer and Helpee Feedback		Your Own Evaluation
	Yes	No	Yes	No
1. Did the helper ask a lot of close ended questions?
2. Did the helper ask a lot of abstract questions?
3. Did the helper ask too many questions?
4. Did the helper tend to criticize the helpee for his actions?
5. Did the helper tend to interrupt the helpee?
6. Did the helper tend to dismiss the problems or feelings of the helpee?
7. Did the helper tend to offer pat or immediate solutions for the helpee's concerns?
8. Did the helper focus his/her responses on the feelings and problems of the helpee?
9. Did the helper convey understanding and acceptance of the helpee's feelings and concerns?
10. Did the helper present himself more as an authority figure than as an equal?
11. Did the helper express any of his/her own feelings or personal experiences relevant to the helpee's concerns?
12. Did the helper tend to avoid direct questions and concerns presented to him by the helpee?

Since 1961 when the Peace Corps was created, more than 80,000 U.S. citizens have served as Volunteers in developing countries, living and working among the people of the Third World as colleagues and co-workers, Today 6 000 PCVs are involved in programs designed to help strengthen local capacity to address such fundamental concerns as food production, water supply, energy development, nutrition and health education and reforestation.

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SUDAN
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Administrator/PCV's
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Khartoum

SWAZILAND
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Mbabane

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THAILAND
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TONGA
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YEMEN
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