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Helping missionaries grow : readings in mental health and missions / editors: Kelly S. O"Donnell, Michele Lewis O'Donnell.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Pasadena, CA : William Carey Library, c1988.Description: xxi, 568 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0878082174
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BV 2094.6 H369 1988
Contents:
Psychology and missions: reflections on status and need Part 1. Missionary preparation Candidate selection Should I be a missionary? -- How to choose the right missionary -- Candidate selection criteria: a survey -- How to select the best church planters -- Psychological assessment A rationale for psychological assessment of missionary candidates -- Essentials and tools of psychological assessment -- Minuses of psychological assessment -- Missionary effectiveness How spiritual are missionaries? -- Missionary fit: a criterion-related model -- Pretaining variables in the prediction of missionary success overseas -- Training considerations Preparation: pat the price! -- A preliminary study on psychologists in missions -- Crucial factors in building good teams -- Teaching power encounter -- Part 2. Missionary families Family life Characteristics of a healthy mission system -- Developmental tasks in the life cycle of mission families -- Stress on mission families living in "Other culture" situations -- The missionary's need for family life training -- Missionary family restoration for early returnees -- Missionary couples Stress factors in missionary marriages -- Positive possibilities in mid-life transitions -- Resolving conflicts in Christian marriage -- Missionary children Toward a greater understanding of the real MK: A review of recent research -- Personality development in the children of missionary parents -- Missionary children: correlates of self-esteem and dependency -- Educating missionary children To send or not to send? missionary parents ask -- What about the kids? MK education symposium -- The educational needs of children of expatriates -- Part 3. Missionary adjustment Entering the new culture Bonding and the missionary task -- Finding a sense of belonging in your new home -- How we reduced those early cultural surprises -- Cross-cultural stress Stress producing factors in cultural adjustment -- Decreasing fatigue and illness in field work -- Sources of missionary stress -- Worksheet on balanced living -- Interpersonal relationships Missionary relationships: Powderkeg or Powerhouse? -- Separation: balancing the gains and losses -- Overcoming stress in singleness -- Attrition Why do they leave? reflections on attrition -- Proactive care of missionary personnel -- Part 4. Special issues Mission agencies Building relationships between mental health specialists and mission agencies -- The current status of the provision of mental health services to mission agencies in North America -- Some suggested ethical guidelines for the delivery of mental health services in mission settings -- Women in missions Women's roles in mission; where are we now? -- Wives: homemakers or mission employees? -- Current issues of women and therapy -- Repatriation Reentry stress: the pain of coming home -- Welcome home! easing the pain of MK reentry -- Cross-cultural counseling Culture-sensitive counseling and the Christian mission --
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Psychology and missions: reflections on status and need

Part 1. Missionary preparation

Candidate selection
Should I be a missionary? -- How to choose the right missionary -- Candidate selection criteria: a survey -- How to select the best church planters --

Psychological assessment
A rationale for psychological assessment of missionary candidates -- Essentials and tools of psychological assessment -- Minuses of psychological assessment --

Missionary effectiveness
How spiritual are missionaries? -- Missionary fit: a criterion-related model -- Pretaining variables in the prediction of missionary success overseas --

Training considerations
Preparation: pat the price! -- A preliminary study on psychologists in missions -- Crucial factors in building good teams -- Teaching power encounter --

Part 2. Missionary families
Family life
Characteristics of a healthy mission system -- Developmental tasks in the life cycle of mission families -- Stress on mission families living in "Other culture" situations -- The missionary's need for family life training -- Missionary family restoration for early returnees --

Missionary couples
Stress factors in missionary marriages -- Positive possibilities in mid-life transitions -- Resolving conflicts in Christian marriage --

Missionary children
Toward a greater understanding of the real MK: A review of recent research -- Personality development in the children of missionary parents -- Missionary children: correlates of self-esteem and dependency --

Educating missionary children
To send or not to send? missionary parents ask -- What about the kids? MK education symposium -- The educational needs of children of expatriates --

Part 3. Missionary adjustment
Entering the new culture
Bonding and the missionary task -- Finding a sense of belonging in your new home -- How we reduced those early cultural surprises --

Cross-cultural stress
Stress producing factors in cultural adjustment -- Decreasing fatigue and illness in field work -- Sources of missionary stress -- Worksheet on balanced living --

Interpersonal relationships
Missionary relationships: Powderkeg or Powerhouse? -- Separation: balancing the gains and losses -- Overcoming stress in singleness --

Attrition
Why do they leave? reflections on attrition -- Proactive care of missionary personnel --

Part 4. Special issues
Mission agencies
Building relationships between mental health specialists and mission agencies -- The current status of the provision of mental health services to mission agencies in North America -- Some suggested ethical guidelines for the delivery of mental health services in mission settings --

Women in missions
Women's roles in mission; where are we now? -- Wives: homemakers or mission employees? -- Current issues of women and therapy --

Repatriation
Reentry stress: the pain of coming home -- Welcome home! easing the pain of MK reentry --

Cross-cultural counseling
Culture-sensitive counseling and the Christian mission --

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