Helping Missionaries Grow
Dr. Kelly O’Donnell is a consulting psychologist, based in Geneva, living/working internationally for 35 years. He is the CEO of Member Care Associates, Inc. (MCA), an NGO focusing on the wellbeing and effectiveness of staff and their organizations. Kelly’s international and multi-sectoral emphases for consultation, training, and writing include: staff wellbeing, global mental health, integrity/anti-corruption, and faith-based contributions for good practice and sustainable development. He holds graduate degrees in clinical/community psychology including a doctorate from Rosemead School of Psychology, Biola University, USA. Publications include 90+ articles and five books in the member care/mental health fields (see lists of publications and presentations). He has been a representative to the United Nations for the World Federation for Mental Health and currently is on the Executive Team for the Global Integrity Network of the Lausanne Movement-World Evangelical Alliance as well as a co-coordinator for the annual Global Integrity Day-9 June. Kelly enjoys providing a steady stream of reflections and resources via the MCA-related websites such as GMH-Map and Global Integrity Day, GMH orientation articles, and the monthly Member Care Updates and Global Integration Updates. Married to Michèle for 38 years, also a psychologist, they have two wonderful adult daughters. His life and work are influenced by the Ignatian values of learning, virtue, and duty; the Global Integration Framework (linking values, skills, relationships, and integrity for the wellbeing of all people and the planet); and the Missio Dei Model of Global Member Care. Email: MCAresources@gmail.com
Michèle and Kelly have published five member care books with Wiliam Carey Publishing. More information is on their Member Care Associates website HERE.
--Helping Missionaries Grow: Readings in Mental Health and Missions (1988)
--Missionary Care Counting the Cost for World Evangelization (1992)
--Doing Member Care Well: Perspectives and Practices from Around the World (2002)
--Global Member Care (volume one): The Pearls and Perils of Good Practice (2011)
--Global Member Care (volume two): Crossing Sectors for Serving Humanity (2013)
--Current work: Global Member Care (volume three): Staying the Course Among All Peoples
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Dr. Michèle Lewis O’Donnell is a consulting psychologist and COO with Member Care Associates, Inc. (MCA), an NGO focusing on the wellbeing and effectiveness of staff and their organizations. She grew up in both the USA and Europe (as a “military kid") and over the last 35 years has lived in four European countries. Her professional emphases have included individual and family adjustment in the expatriate community, transition and grief/loss, crisis care, good practice/ethics, global mental health, and integrity/anti-corruption. Michèle studied clinical psychology and theology at Rosemead School of Psychology, Biola University, USA, where she received her doctorate. She enjoys “going broadly” in order to learn, teach, and consult internationally. Her publications include several jointly written articles and resources in the member care/mental health fields including co-editing several foundational member care volumes. (Publications and Presentations) . Michèle has been a representative to the United Nations in Geneva for the World Federation for Mental Health (2016-2021) and is he co-coordinator for the annual Global Integrity Day-9 June. Here work in mission is influenced by the Global Integration Framework (linking values, skills, relationships, and integrity for the wellbeing of all people and the planet) and the Missio Dei Model of Global Member Care. Married to Kelly for 38 years, also a psychologist, they have two wonderful adult daughters. Email mcaresources@gmail.com
Michèle and Kelly have published five member care books with Wiliam Carey Publishing. More information is on their Member Care Associates website HERE.
--Helping Missionaries Grow: Readings in Mental Health and Missions (1988)
--Missionary Care Counting the Cost For World Evangelization (1992)
--Doing Member Care Well: Perspectives and Practices from Around the World (2002)
--Global Member Care (volume one): The Pearls and Perils of Good Practice (2011)
--Global Member Care (volume two): Crossing Sectors for Serving Humanity (2013)
--Current work: Global Member Care (volume three): Staying the Course Among All Peoples
Browse Available Books by Michèle O’Donnell:
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Missionary care is a means of encouraging and developing those on the front lines of world evangelization. This type of care was demonstrated by the Lord during His earthly ministry, is recorded of the early church in the Acts of the Apostles and can be found in various forms throughout mission history. It is reflected in the wisdom of Proverbs and in the devotions of the Psalms.
But what types of care do missionaries need? How has it been provided in the past? And how can mission agencies develop balanced, effective member care programs for their people?
Helping Missionaries Grow addresses these important questions. Its articles span the member care terrain, providing a bird's-eye view of its nature, practice, and relevance to missionary health and ministry effectiveness.
Foreword
Preface
List of Contributors
Editors' Introduction to Helping Missionaries Grow
- Psychology and Missions: Reflections on Status and Need
- Should I Be a Missionary?
- How to Choose the Right Missionary
- Candidate Selection Criteria: A Survey
- How to Select the Best Church Planters
- A Rationale for Psychological Assessment of Missionary Candidates
- Essentials and Tools of Psychological Assessment
- Misuses of Psychological Assessment
- How Spiritual Are Missionaries?
- Missionary Fit: A Criterion-related Model
- Pretraining Variables in the Prediction of Missionary Success Overseas
- Preparation: Pay the Price
- A Preliminary Study on Psychologists in Missions
- Crucial Factors in Building Good Teams
- Teaching Power Encounter
- 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
- Stress Factors in Missionary Marriages
- Positive Possibilities in Mid-life Transitions
- Resolving Conflicts in Christian Marriage
- 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
- To Send or Not to Send? Missionary Parents Ask
- What About the Kids? MK Education Symposium
- The Educational Needs of Children of Expatriates
- Bonding and the Missionary Task
- Finding a Sense of Belonging in Your New Home
- How We Reduced Those Early Cultural Surprises
- Stress Producing Factors in Cultural Adjustment
- Decreasing Fatigue and Illness in Field Work
- Sources of Missionary Stress
- Worksheet on Balanced Living
- Missionary Relationships: Powderkeg or Powerhouse?
- Separation: Balancing the Gains and Losses
- Overcoming Stress in Singleness
- Why Do They Leave? Reflections on Attrition
- Proactive Care of Missionary Personnel
- 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's Roles in Mission; Where Are We Now?
- Wives: Homemakers or Mission Employees?
- Current Issues of Women and Therapy
- Reentry Stress: The Pain of Coming Home
- Welcome Homel Easing the Pain of MK Reentry
- Culture-Sensitive Counseling and the Christian Mission
Bibliography of Readings in Mental Health and Missions
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Kelly O'Donnell
Kelly O'Donnell
Dr. Kelly O’Donnell is a consulting psychologist, based in Geneva, living/working internationally for 35 years. He is the CEO of Member Care Associates, Inc. (MCA), an NGO focusing on the wellbeing and effectiveness of staff and their organizations. Kelly’s international and multi-sectoral emphases for consultation, training, and writing include: staff wellbeing, global mental health, integrity/anti-corruption, and faith-based contributions for good practice and sustainable development. He holds graduate degrees in clinical/community psychology including a doctorate from Rosemead School of Psychology, Biola University, USA. Publications include 90+ articles and five books in the member care/mental health fields (see lists of publications and presentations). He has been a representative to the United Nations for the World Federation for Mental Health and currently is on the Executive Team for the Global Integrity Network of the Lausanne Movement-World Evangelical Alliance as well as a co-coordinator for the annual Global Integrity Day-9 June. Kelly enjoys providing a steady stream of reflections and resources via the MCA-related websites such as GMH-Map and Global Integrity Day, GMH orientation articles, and the monthly Member Care Updates and Global Integration Updates. Married to Michèle for 38 years, also a psychologist, they have two wonderful adult daughters. His life and work are influenced by the Ignatian values of learning, virtue, and duty; the Global Integration Framework (linking values, skills, relationships, and integrity for the wellbeing of all people and the planet); and the Missio Dei Model of Global Member Care. Email: MCAresources@gmail.com
Michèle and Kelly have published five member care books with Wiliam Carey Publishing. More information is on their Member Care Associates website HERE.
--Helping Missionaries Grow: Readings in Mental Health and Missions (1988)
--Missionary Care Counting the Cost for World Evangelization (1992)
--Doing Member Care Well: Perspectives and Practices from Around the World (2002)
--Global Member Care (volume one): The Pearls and Perils of Good Practice (2011)--Global Member Care (volume two): Crossing Sectors for Serving Humanity (2013)
--Current work: Global Member Care (volume three): Staying the Course Among All Peoples
Browse Available Books by Kelly O’Donnell:
Editor
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Michèle Lewis O'Donnell
Michèle Lewis O'Donnell
Dr. Michèle Lewis O’Donnell is a consulting psychologist and COO with Member Care Associates, Inc. (MCA), an NGO focusing on the wellbeing and effectiveness of staff and their organizations. She grew up in both the USA and Europe (as a “military kid") and over the last 35 years has lived in four European countries. Her professional emphases have included individual and family adjustment in the expatriate community, transition and grief/loss, crisis care, good practice/ethics, global mental health, and integrity/anti-corruption. Michèle studied clinical psychology and theology at Rosemead School of Psychology, Biola University, USA, where she received her doctorate. She enjoys “going broadly” in order to learn, teach, and consult internationally. Her publications include several jointly written articles and resources in the member care/mental health fields including co-editing several foundational member care volumes. (Publications and Presentations) . Michèle has been a representative to the United Nations in Geneva for the World Federation for Mental Health (2016-2021) and is he co-coordinator for the annual Global Integrity Day-9 June. Here work in mission is influenced by the Global Integration Framework (linking values, skills, relationships, and integrity for the wellbeing of all people and the planet) and the Missio Dei Model of Global Member Care. Married to Kelly for 38 years, also a psychologist, they have two wonderful adult daughters. Email mcaresources@gmail.com
Michèle and Kelly have published five member care books with Wiliam Carey Publishing. More information is on their Member Care Associates website HERE.--Helping Missionaries Grow: Readings in Mental Health and Missions (1988)
--Missionary Care Counting the Cost For World Evangelization (1992)
--Doing Member Care Well: Perspectives and Practices from Around the World (2002)
--Global Member Care (volume one): The Pearls and Perils of Good Practice (2011)--Global Member Care (volume two): Crossing Sectors for Serving Humanity (2013)
--Current work: Global Member Care (volume three): Staying the Course Among All Peoples
Browse Available Books by Michèle O’Donnell:
- Pages: 580
- Publisher:
William Carey Publishing
William Carey Publishing
- Binding: Paperback
- Publish Year: 1988
- Vendor: William Carey Library
