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Helping Missionaries Grow: Readings in Mental Health and Missions (1988)
A practical handbook for understanding and dealing with the challenges of missionary life.
This classic book includes 50 articles from 1974--1988.It is available online for the first time as of August 2010. The book is in two formats below:
1. Written PDF (this section) organized into seven files, based on the Table of Contents below.
**To access the entire book as one pdf: click here.
2. Audio MP3, organized into 95 files.
**The chapters are located on an external site. Note: Most of the chapters are on two or more files.
The audio for most of the charts and diagrams is not understandable, hence refer to the pdf version.)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword...xi
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Editors' Introduction to Helping Missionaries Grow... 1
1. Psychology and Missions: Reflections on Status and Need
William F. Hunter and Marvin K. Mayers....5
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File 3: PART ONE: MISSIONARY PREPARATION
Introduction to Part One.............................................................. 15
Candidate Selection
2. Should I Be a Missionary?
LeRoy N. Johnston, Jr. .............................................................. 18
3. How to Choose the Right Missionary
Marjory Foyle............................................................................... 26
4. Candidate Selection Criteria: A Survey
Larry N. Ferguson, Dean Kliewer, Stanley E. Lindquist, Donald E. Williams, and Robert P. Heinrich 35
5. How to Select the Best Church Planters
Thomas Graham.......................................................................... 46
Psychological Assessment
6. A Rationale for Psychological Assessment of Missionary Candidates
Stanley E. Lindquist.................................................................... 55
7. Essentials and Tools of Psychological Assessment
Larry N. Ferguson, Dean Kliewer, Brent Lindquist, and Stanley E. Lindquist. 62
8. Misuses of Psychological Assessment
Brent Lindquist............................................................................. 70
Missionary Effectiveness
9. How Spiritual Are Missionaries?
Phil Parshall................................................................................. 75
10. Missionary Fit: A Criterion-related Model
Charles B. Cureton...................................................................... 83
11. Pretraining Variables in the Prediction of Missionary Success Overseas
William Gordon Britt, III............................................................... 93
Training Considerations
12. Preparation: Pay the Pricel
Phil Elkins................................................................................... 109
13. A Preliminary Study on Psychologists in Missions
Kelly S. O'Donnell..................................................................... 118
14. Crucial Factors in Building Good Teams
Kevin Dyer.................................................................................. 126
15. Teaching Power Encounter
Timothy Warner......................................................................... 131
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File 4: PART TWO: MISSIONARY FAMILIES
Introduction to Part Two............................................................ 139
Family Life
16. Characteristics of a Healthy Mission System
Frances J. White........................................................................ 142
17. Developmental Tasks in the Life Cycle of Mission Families
Kelly S. O'Donnell..................................................................... 148
18. Stress on Mission Families Living in "Other Culture" Situations
Raymond M. Chester................................................................ 164
19. The Missionary's Need for Family Life Training
Joyce Kruckeberg and Anita Stafford..................................... 176
20. Missionary Family Restoration for Early Returnees
Stanley E. Lindquist and Brent Lindquist............................... 186
Missionary Couples
21. Stress Factors in Missionary Marriages
Marjory Foyle.............................................................................. 194
22. Positive Possibilities in Mid-life Transitions
Robert L. Eagle.......................................................................... 203
23. Resolving Conflicts in Christian Marriage
Kenneth L. Williams................................................................... 211
Missionary Children
24. Toward a Greater Understanding of the Real MK: A Review of Recent Research
Larry W. Sharp............................................................................ 219
25. Personality Development in the Children of Missionary Parents
Margaret Hooper Taylor............................................................ 229
26. Missionary Children: Correlates of Self-esteem and Dependency
David Lee Wickstrom and J. Roland Fleck............................ 240
Educating Missionary Children
27. To Send or Not to Send? Missionary Parents Ask
Raymond M. Chester................................................................. 258
28. What About the Kids? MK Education Symposium
John A. Holzmann..................................................................... 266
29. The Educational Needs of Children of Expatriates
Brian V. Hill................................................................................. 276
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File 5: PART THREE: MISSIONARY ADJUSTMENT
Introduction to Part Three......................................................... 305
Entering the New Culture
30. Bonding and the Missionary Task
E. Thomas Brewster and Elizabeth R. Brewster................... 308
31. Finding a Sense of Belonging in Your New Home
Terri A. Gibbs.............................................................................. 323
32. How We Reduced Those Early Cultural Surprises
Alexander H. Bolyanatz............................................................ 329
Cross-Cultural Stress
33. Stress Producing Factors in Cultural Adjustment
T. Wayne Dye............................................................................ 335
34. Decreasing Fatigue and Illness in Field Work
Sally Folger Dye........................................................................ 352
35. Sources of Missionary Stress
Dorothy Gish.............................................................................. 379
36. Worksheet on Balanced Living
Kenneth L. Williams.................................................................. 390
Interpersonal Relationships
37. Missionary Relationships: Powderkeg or Powerhouse?
Marjory Foyle............................................................................. 399
3 8. Separation: Balancing the Gains and Losses
Frances J. White and Elaine M. Nesbit.................................. 407
39. Overcoming Stress in Singleness
Marjory Foyle............................................................................. 413
Attrition
40. Why Do They Leave? Reflections on Attrition
Frank Allen................................................................................. 421
41. Proactive Care of Missionary Personnel
Laura Mae Gardner................................................................... 432
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File 6: PART FOUR: SPECIAL ISSUES
Introduction to Part Four........................................................... 447
Mission Agencies
42. Building Relationships Between Mental Health Specialists and Mission Agencies
LeRoy N. Johnston, Jr.............................................................. 449
43. The Current Status of the Provision of Mental Health Services to Mission Agencies in North America
Cedric B. Johnson and David R. Penner.............................. 458
44. Some Suggested Ethical Guidelines for the Delivery of Mental Health Services in Mission Settings
Kelly S. O'Donnell..................................................................... 466
Women in Missions
45. Women's Roles in Mission; Where Are We Now?
Joyce M. Bowers....................................................................... 480
46. Wives: Homemakers or Mission Employees?
Susan B. De Ifries..................................................................... 489
47. Current Issues of Women and Therapy
Diane Marshall.......................................................................... 497
Repatriation
48. Reentry Stress: The Pain of Coming Home
Clyde Austin............................................................................... 513
49. Welcome Homel Easing the Pain of MK Reentry
David C. Pollock........................................................................ 524
Cross-Cultural Counseling
50. Culture-Sensitive Counseling and the Christian Mission
David J. Hesselgrave............................................................... 530
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Bibliography of Readings in Mental Health
and Missions.............................................................................. 551
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