Engaging in intercultural adaptation processes

This video explains some noted adaptation processes that most people go though. The stress, adaptation, and growth model in particular shows how cross-cultural challenges help develop intercultural communication competence.

This video provides an overview of many of the topics and themes further explained in the next reading. Listen first, then read the download provided in the next step. Throughout both steps, you can reflect further on your own awareness of adjustments, and how you have seen them occuring in your own experiences or others.

As a recommended reading, you might want to look at how the author of the stress-adaptation-growth process describes her ideas on these processes (in particular, note pp. 4,5 of the downloadable article by Young Yun Kim).

Recommended Citation:
_{Kim, Y. Y. (2012). From ascription to achievement: The case for identity adaptation and transformation in the globalizing world. In X. D. Dai & S. J. Kulich (Eds.), Intercultural adaptation (I): Theoretical explorations and empirical studies. Intercultural research, Vol. 6 (pp. 31-49). Shanghai, China: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.}