Includes index.

PART I. THE MENTAL HEALTH AND MISSIONS CONFERENCE
The annual conference on mental health and missions: a brief history --

PART II. PROFESSIONAL INTERVENTION SHAPED BY CONTEXT
Mental health professionals in missions: an overview -- Mental health advances in member care -- Member care in the service of missions: what is in the driver's seat? -- Missionary care and counseling: a brief history and challenge -- Pastoral and psychological caregivers working together -- A theological perspective on missionary care --

PART III. COMPLEXITIES OF CROSS-CULTURAL SERVICE
Whirling teacups: a bi-cycle analysis of missionary growth -- Spiritual dimensions in mental health -- Maintaining spiritual vitality: spiritual resources for tough times -- A practical approach to missionary transitions -- Missionary stressors and implications for care -- Stress and coping: learning how to be resilient -- Forgiveness in healing wounded servants -- Families in mission: issues and resources -- Missionary women speak -- Serving single -- Married women in missions: the effects of role expectations on well-being and self-esteem -- Re-entry: an introduction -- The reacculturation of missionary families: a dynamic theory --

PART IV: INTERFACES WITH SENDING AGENCIES
A tripartite model for missions consultations -- In-house staff vs. outside consultants -- Organizational consulting with mission agencies -- What mission CEOs want from mental health --

PART V. MODELS OF PREVENTIVE SERVICES
Dimensions of care in the missions community -- Choosing the right people: factors to consider in pre-service assessment -- Tools used to assess missionaries -- The call: psychological, cultural & spiritual counterfeits -- Affective domain training: a critical ingredient in missionary preparation -- Training missionaries in how to relate well: pay little now or a lot later -- Team building -- Conflict resolution -- Intersections of physical and mental health --

Part VI. CLINICAL INTERVENTIONS
Brief counseling/therapy during overseas visits -- Missionaries and moods -- Psychosomatic disorders -- Crisis intervention and debriefing -- Caring for mission personnel in crisis: a matrix approach -- Mobile crisis response: responding in the Aftermath of trauma -- Personality disorders and overseas missions: guidelines for the mental health professional -- Recognizing and dealing with demonic involvement -- When should they leave: retention and referral of personnel in field settings -- Facilitating confession, forgiveness, and reconciliation -- The why and how of restorative care -- Long term therapy: a long journey towards deep --

PART VII. INNOVATIVE MODELS
On-site and rotating professional services -- Mobile member care teams -- Virtual teams -- Intensive care community: moving beyond surviving to thriving -- Residential care facilities --

PART VIII. ETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS
Ethical principles for mental health work with missionaries -- Excerpts from professional codes of ethics -- The use and misuse of psychological assessment in missionary candidate evaluations -- Professional use of the internet: legal and ethical issues in a member care environment --

PART IX. APPLIED RESEARCH
Research in mental health and missions -- MK-CART/CORE: A multi-mission research model --