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Title: Administrative guidelines for remaining or returning.
Doing member care well: Perspectives and practices from around the world (pp. 289-294).  Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library.  2002
Summary:  A chapter providing criteria a sending agency uses to decide whether to allow missionaries remain on the field, relocate them to where additional resources are available, or relocate them to the home country.
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Title: A practical approach to missionary transitions.
Enhancing missionary vitality: Mental health professions serving global mission (pp. 91-99).  Palmer Lake, CO: Mission Training International.  2002
Summary:  This chapter looks at major transition points, both expected and unexpected, in the lives of missionaries. Missionary life is very stressful, and much of the stress is caused by such changes.
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Title: Missionary care and counseling: A brief history and challenge.
Enhancing missionary vitality: Mental health professions serving global mission (pp. 41-47).  Palmer Lake, CO: Mission Training International.  2002
Summary:  This chapter reviews the history of different eras of missionary care during the past century with each stage building on and including the previous ones.
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Title: Protecting our TCKs: .What can be done? What must be done?
Fitted Pieces: A guide for parents educating children overseas (pp. 264-269),  St. Clair Shores, MI: SHARE Education Service.  2001
Summary:  An article dealing with various types of abuse that occurs within the mission community, along with suggestions for combating such abuse. Same as in Interact February, 2000, Vol. 8, No. 3. pp. 14-16.
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Title: Child abuse in missions..What can be done? What must be done?
Interact  February, Vol. 8, No. 3. pp. 14-16.  2000
Summary:  An article dealing with various types of abuse that occurs within the mission community, along with suggestions for combating such abuse. Same as Blomberg & Brooks, 2001, Fitted pieces: A guide for parents educating children overseas (pp. 264-269). St. Clair Shores, MI: SHARE Education Services.
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Title: Helping kids cope with crisis.
Interact.  October, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 6-11.  1994
Summary:  An article in interview format on helping children and their families deal with the trauma caused by crisis situations.
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Title: Homosexuality in women: Considerations for evangelical missionary recruitment, missions administration, and clinical intervention.
Journal of Psychology and Theology,  21, 26-36.  1993
Summary:  Since missions is a character profession, the behavior of missionaries outside of working hours is crucial. This article deals with female homosexuality in missions looking at it in a developmental perspective. It gives criteria for assessment and considerations for administrative action
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Title: Crisis intervention in the mission community
Missionary Care: Counting the cost for world evangelization (pp. 136-150).  Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library.  1992
Summary:  Great summary of crisis intervention. Written for mission leaders, but great for anyone who wants to learn about it.
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Title: Proactive care of missionary personnel
Helping missionaries grow: Readings in mental health and missions (pp. 432-443).  Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library.  1988
Summary:  A case study method of 16 units terminating with difficulties that could have been solved. The study resulted in 7 observations and 30 recommendations. Same as in Journal of Psychology and Theology, 1987, 15, 308-314.
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Title: A practical approach to transitions in missionary living.
Journal of Psychology and Theology,  15, 342-349.  1987
Summary:  An analysis of what transitions a typical missionary faces in life and what can be done to help. This includes the major issues and what can be done by the organization to help in the transitions
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Title: Proactive care of missionary personnel
Journal of Psychology and Theology,  15, 308-314.  1987
Summary:  A case study method of 16 units terminating with difficulties that could have been solved. The study resulted in 7 observations and 30 recommendations. Same as in O'Donnell & O'Donnell, 1988, Helping missionaries grow (432-443), Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library.
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