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This book is designed for the large corps of professionals and volunteers who work in the growing number of organizations and programs involved in international educational exchange. It provides two very important resources:

1. A comprehensive analysis of the dynamics of the youth exchange experience and the factors that come into play when providing the participants with effective orientation.

2. A set of carefully selected materials which may be applied to the orientation of each of the principal groups involved---the participants, their natural families, and their host families---at each of the stages of the exchange process: pre-departure, during sojourn, and post-return.

The materials, which come from many different countries, are drawn from the series of orientation handbooks which have been compiled and published by AFS International/ Intercultural Programs since 1981 and represent the best ideas and orientation exercises generated by that organization.

The editor, Cornelius (Neal) Grove, is director of the AFS Center for the Study of Intercultural Learning. Grove has an Ed. D. from Columbia University and has been researching youth orientation and cross-cultural adaptation training for many years.

Table of Contents Preface Introduction Principles of Youth Exchange Orientation Unit 1: Pre-Departure Orientation for Natural Families Resources:     One: Candidate Exchange Homestay     Two: Easing Pre-Departure Anxieties     Three: Host Country Information for Students Unit 2: Pre-Departure Orientation for Exchangees Resources:     Four: Preparing to Describe the Home Community     Five: Value Orientations     Six: Preparing Exchangees for Counseling Situations Unit 3: Pre-Departure Orientation for Host Families Resources:     Seven: A Letter to Host Parents from the Sending Country     Eight: Orientation for Host Families     Nine: Orientation to Living with the Host Family Unit 4: During-the-Sojourn Orientation for Natural Families Resources:     Ten: A Letter to Natural Parents After the Student Departs     Eleven: A Letter to Natural Parents Before the Student Returns     Twelve: Adjusting to the Returning Exchange Student Unit 5: During-the-Sojourn Orientation for Exchangees Resources:     Thirteen: Orientation Immediately upon the Exchangees' Arrival     Fourteen: Dealing with Expectations upon the Exchangees' Arrival     Fifteen: Effectiveness as an Intercultural Sojourner: Building Intercultural Skills         Sixteen: Red Flags: A Technique for Improving Cultural Awareness     Seventeen: Understanding the Host Community     Eighteen: Preparing for the Return Home     Nineteen: Helping Exchange Students Arrive at Closure Unit 6: During-the-Sojourn Orientation for Host Families Resources:     Twenty: Training Volunteer Exchangee-Family Liaisons     Twenty-One: Information on Adjustment Stress for Host Families     Twenty-Two: Pre-Return Orientation for Host Families Unit 7: Post-Return Orientation for Natural Families Resources:     Twenty-Three: Using Drama with Exchangees and Natural Families Unit 8: Post-Return Orientation for Exchangees Resources:     Twenty-Four: Helping Returnees Recognize Personal Growth     Twenty-Five: Dealing with Specific Re-Entry Concerns Unit 9: Post-Return Orientation for Host Families Resources:     Twenty-Six: Helping Hosts and Others Arrive at Closure Annotated Bibliography

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