| Author: |
O'Donnell, K.
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| Title: |
Developmental tasks in the life cycle of mission families. |
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Helping missionaries grow: Readings in mental health and missions (pp. 148-163) |
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| Editor: |
K. S. O'Donnell & M. L. O'Donnell (Eds.), |
| Pub.
Data: |
Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library.
1988 |
| Pub.
Type: |
Chapter
16
pages |
| Summary: |
This is an application of McGoldrick and Carter's (1982) family life cycle approach to the missionary family. It raises many thought-provoking issues helpful to understanding the family. Same as in the Journal of Psychology and Theology, 1987, 15, 281-290. |
| Gems: |
For young adults participation in cross-cultural service necessitates a change in geographic and cultural environments, which then provides a context for engaging in the separation-differentiation process.
For newly-married people the need to steer a course between the host culture's expectations for husband and wife roles and those from the missionary's' homeland add an even more difficult adjustment challenge.
Probably better to establish the marriage firmly in their own country or to marry during a later stage of mission involvement.
The socialization of children is another developmental challenge for the mission family. |
| Outline: |
The Unattached young Adult
The Newly Married Couple
The Family With Young Children
The Family with Adolescents
Launching Children and Moving On
The Family in Later Life
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