Helping Missionaries Grow

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

List of Contributors

Editors' Introduction to Helping Missionaries Grow

1. Psychology and Missions: Reflections on Status and Need

2. Should I Be a Missionary?
3. How to Choose the Right Missionary
4. Candidate Selection Criteria: A Survey
5. How to Select the Best Church Planters
6. A Rationale for Psychological Assessment of Missionary Candidates
7. Essentials and Tools of Psychological Assessment
8. Misuses of Psychological Assessment
9. How Spiritual Are Missionaries?
10. Missionary Fit: A Criterion-related Model
11. Pretraining Variables in the Prediction of Missionary Success Overseas
12. Preparation: Pay the Price
13. A Preliminary Study on Psychologists in Missions
14. Crucial Factors in Building Good Teams
15. Teaching Power Encounter
16. Characteristics of a Healthy Mission System
17. Developmental Tasks in the Life Cycle of Mission Families
18. Stress on Mission Families Living in "Other Culture" Situations
19. The Missionary's Need for Family Life Training
20. Missionary Family Restoration for Early Returnees
21. Stress Factors in Missionary Marriages
22. Positive Possibilities in Mid-life Transitions
23. Resolving Conflicts in Christian Marriage

24. Toward a Greater Understanding of the Real MK: A Review of Recent Research
25. Personality Development in the Children of Missionary Parents
26. Missionary Children: Correlates of Self-esteem and Dependency
27. To Send or Not to Send? Missionary Parents Ask
28. What About the Kids? MK Education Symposium
29. The Educational Needs of Children of Expatriates
30. Bonding and the Missionary Task
31. Finding a Sense of Belonging in Your New Home
32. How We Reduced Those Early Cultural Surprises
33. Stress Producing Factors in Cultural Adjustment
34. Decreasing Fatigue and Illness in Field Work
35. Sources of Missionary Stress
36. Worksheet on Balanced Living
37. Missionary Relationships: Powderkeg or Powerhouse?
38. Separation: Balancing the Gains and Losses
39. Overcoming Stress in Singleness
40. Why Do They Leave? Reflections on Attrition
41. Proactive Care of Missionary Personnel
42. Building Relationships Between Mental Health Specialists and Mission Agencies
43. The Current Status of the Provision of Mental Health Services to Mission Agencies in North America
44. Some Suggested Ethical Guidelines for the Delivery of Mental Health Services in Mission Settings
45. Women's Roles in Mission; Where Are We Now?
46. Wives: Homemakers or Mission Employees?
47. Current Issues of Women and Therapy
48. Reentry Stress: The Pain of Coming Home
49. Welcome Homel Easing the Pain of MK Reentry

50. Culture-Sensitive Counseling and the Christian Mission

Bibliography of Readings in Mental Health and Missions