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Author: O'Donnell, K.
Title: Upgrading member care: Five stones for ethical practice.
Evangelical Missions Quarterly,  Vol. 42, pp. 344-355.   2006
Summary:  This article is a comprehensive attempt to identify relevant ethical guidelines, ones that fit into our cultural and experiential contexts.
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Author: Foyle, M.
Title: When does suffering become unethical?
Interact,  Winter, 2005, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 14-16.   2005
Summary:  An article about children facing suffering and what is necessary for them to adequately cope with their suffering.
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Author: Hall, M. E. L.
Title: Mental health professionals in missions: An overview.
Enhancing missionary vitality: Mental health professions serving global mission (pp. 15-22).  Palmer Lake, CO: Mission Training International.   2002
Summary:  This chapter looks at the past and present trends in mental health and missions and attempts to predict what future trends will be.
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Author: Rosik, C. H.
Title: Professional use of the Internet: Legal and ethical issues in a member care environment.
Enhancing missionary vitality: Mental health professions serving global mission (pp. 463-471).  Palmer Lake, CO: Mission Training International.   2002
Summary:  An article raising ethical and legal issues in the use of the Internet by professionals in providing member care. Recommendations are presented which can help mission organizations and member care professionals promote ethical practice and reduce legal liability when providing online services.
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Author: Hall, M. E. L.
Title: On the use and misuse of psychological assessment in candidate evaluations.
Enhancing missionary vitality: Mental health professions serving global mission (pp. 453-461).  Palmer Lake, CO: Mission Training International.   2002
Summary:  This chapter presents the context, method and goals of psychological assessment as well as several problem areas. Such assessment is widely practiced, but there is a lack of specific standards relevant to mission groups to guide practitioners.
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Author: Jensma, J.
Title: Residential care facilities.
Enhancing missionary vitality: Mental health professions serving global mission (pp. 423-432).  Palmer Lake, CO: Mission Training International.   2002
Summary:  This chapter is a summary of information about seven ministries that offer missionary care during a short or long stay in a residential facility.
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Author: Richardson, J.
Title: Ethical principles for mental health work with missionaries.
Enhancing missionary vitality: Mental health professions serving global mission (pp. 435-443).  Palmer Lake, CO: Mission Training International.   2002
Summary:  This chapter presents general ethical principles (with origins in the Old and New Testaments) which are common to all the helping professions so that mental health professionals working in missions will have some guidelines when they find themselves in situations where ethical boundaries are unclear.
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Author: Rosik, C. H.
Title: The why and how of restorative care.
Enhancing missionary vitality: Mental health professions serving global mission (pp. 373-379).  Palmer Lake, CO: Mission Training International.   2002
Summary:  This chapter presents a continuum of potions for restorative member care from furlough consultation to residential care. It also describes the missionary restoration program at Link Care.
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Author: O'Donnell, K.
Title: Doing Member Care Well :Perspectives and Practices from Around the World.
   Pasadena, CA, William Carey Library.   2002
Summary:  A comprehensive, 566-page book about member care around the world consisting of 50 Chapters gathered into 3 parts with 5 sections in each of the last two parts . This is the most valuable resource on world-wide member care available at the beginning of the 21st century.
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Author: Gingrich, F.
Title: Who's the client?: Counseling with a missionary family on the Field.
Journal of Psychology and Christianity,  21, 57-61.   2002
Summary:  An article that is a case study of counseling a missionary family on the field looking at who the client was--the couple, the family, the agency, etc.
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Author: White, F.
Title: Mental health advances in member care.
Enhancing missionary vitality: Mental health professions serving global mission (pp. 23-31).  Palmer Lake, CO: Mission Training International.   2002
Summary:  This chapter presents a dozen or so ways that mental health services have developed in numerous venues during the past fifty years.
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Author: Lindquist, B.
Title: Member care in the service of missions: What is in the driver's seat?
Enhancing missionary vitality: Mental health professions serving global mission (pp. 33-40).  Palmer Lake, CO: Mission Training International.   2002
Summary:  This chapter raises a variety of thought-provoking questions about member care issues which everyone involved in member care should consider.
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Author: Kellogg, M. E.
Title: Caring for mission personnel in crisis: A matrix approach.
Enhancing missionary vitality: Mental health professions serving global mission (pp. 313-321).  Palmer Lake, CO: Mission Training International.   2002
Summary:  This chapter is a description of a complete training package available from the author at Wycliffe Bible Translators: miriam_kellogg@wycliffe.org
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Author: Wickstrom, D. L.
Title: Choosing the right people: Factors to consider in pre-field assessment.
Enhancing missionary vitality: Mental health professions serving global mission (pp. 219-225).  Palmer Lake, CO: Mission Training International.   2002
Summary:  This chapter gives a brief history, assessment criteria, a rationale for psychological tests, benefits of well-done professional evaluations, and pitfalls which can cause assessments to be misleading and potentially harmful.
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Author: Gardner, L. M.
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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Author: Cerny, L. J.
Title: Field counseling: Sifting the wheat from the chaff.
Doing member care well: Perspectives and practices from around the world (pp. 489-499).  Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library.   2002
Summary:  This chapter presents some differences in professional practice in the USA and with missionaries along with with vignettes in which poor judgment was used, including a discussion of what would have been better.
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Author: Powell, J.
Title: Enhancing Missionary Vitality: Mental Health professions Serving Global Mission.
   Palmer Lake, CO, Mission Training International.   2002
Summary:  A comprehensive, 500-page book about member care of primarily North American missionaries consisting of 56 Chapters gathered into 9 parts with from 1 to 12 chapters in each of the parts. This is the most valuable resource on North American member care available at the beginning of the 21st century.
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Author: Rosik, C. H.
Title: Professional use of the Internet: Legal and ethical issues in a member care environment.
Journal of Psychology and Theology,  29, 106-120.   2001
Summary:  An article raising ethical and legal issues in the use of the Internet by professionals in providing member care. Recommendations are presented which can help mission organizations and member care professionals promote ethical practice and reduce legal liability when providing online services. A condensed form of this article is also in Powell & Bowers (2002) Enhancing Missionary Vitality, pp. 463-471.
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Author: Schubert, E.
Title: A suggested prefield process for missionary candidates.
Journal of Psychology and Theology.  27, 87-97.   1999
Summary:  An article giving a suggested steps missionary candidates should proceed through in selection, going from less expensive to more expensive, so that a mission organizations resources can be maximally utilized. The appendices are particularly useful.
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Author: Hall, M. E. L.
Title: Psychology and missions: The role of the mental health professional in member care.
Journal of Psychology and Theology.  27, 83-86.   1999
Summary:  An article introducing a special journal issue, looking at the past, present and future.
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Author: Pollock, D.
Title: You are a protector.
Raising resilient MKs: Resources for caregivers, parents, and teachers (pp. 397-401).  Colorado Springs, CO: Association of Christian Schools International.   1998
Summary:  A chapter about protecting MKs from abuse of all kinds, including protection from adults, other children, and themselves. Same as in Interact, October, 1993.
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Author: O'Donnell, K.
Title: Member care on the field: Taking the longer road. Perspective of the old sending countries.
Too valuable to lose: Exploring the causes and cures of missionary attrition (pp. 287-302).  Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library.   1997
Summary:  A chapter giving an overview of member care in the mid 1990s. This is an excellent summary of what is available as well as a call for what more is needed. The member care needs and resources grid is particularly helpful in integrating staff, services, stages, and stressors.
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Author: Hall, M. E. L.
Title: The therapist in a missions context: Avoiding dual role conflicts.
Journal of Psychology and Theology,  24, 212-219.   1996
Summary:  An article listing three or four ethical conflicts that may arise from dual role relationships, and providing five suggestions for resolution of those ethical dilemmas.
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Author: White, F.
Title: History of mental health professionals' involvement in member care of missions: Past, present, future
Proceedings from the 15th Annual Mental Health and Missions Conference,  Angola, IN.   1994
Summary:  A paper giving an excellent statement of where we are at the present and many good proposals for the future in terms of mental health and member care.
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Author: O'Donnell, K.
Title: Missionary Care: Counting the cost for world evangelization.
   Pasadena, CA: William Care Library.   1992
Summary:  An outstanding overview of member care consisting of five chapters in each of five sections covering much of member care in missions. Each chapter ends with questions for discussion and reverences. An index is provided.
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Author: O'Donnell, K.
Title: Ethical concerns in providing member care services
Missionary Care: Counting the cost for world evangelization (pp. 260-268).  Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library.   1992
Summary:  A case study is presented, and then the 25+ ethical violations are discussed under the topics of responsibility, confidentiality, competence and testing. This is a revision of O'Donnell & O'Donnell (1991) Evangelical Missions Quarterly, 27, 146-151.
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Author: O'Donnell, K.
Title: How to avoid ethical traps in treating hurting staff.
Evangelical Missions Quarterly,  27, 146-151.   1991
Summary:  A case study is presented, and then the 25+ ethical violations are discussed under the topics of responsibility, confidentiality, competence and testing. A revision of this is in O'Donnell & O'Donnell (1991) Missionary Care (260-268). Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library.
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Author: Echerd, P.
Title: Understanding and nurturing the missionary family. Compendium of the International Conference on Missionary Kids, Quito, Ecuador, January 4-8, 1987, Volume I.
   Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library.   1989
Summary:  Compendium of the International Conference on Missionary Kids, Quito, Ecuador, January 4-8, 1987, Volume I. Contains 42 chapters grouped into seven categories.
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Author: Bakker, E.
Title: Understanding MKs: Why their actions (Sometimes) don't fit.
Understanding and nurturing the missionary family: Compendium of the international Conference on Missionary Kids, Quito, Ecuador, January 4-8, 1987, Volume I (pp. 326-336).  Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library.   1989
Summary:  A chapter pointing out that differences in behavior may be a result of deeply held values different from their "home" culture in MKs rather than rebellion, etc.
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Author: O'Donnell, K.
Title: Helping missionaries grow: Readings in mental health and missions
   Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library.   1988
Summary:  An excellent compendium of 50 previously published articles and papers all gathered together in one place. An excellent introduction to mental health and missions
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Author: O'Donnell, K.
Title: Some suggested ethical guidelines for the delivery of mental health services in mission settings.
Helping missionaries grow: Readings in mental health and missions (pp. 466-479).  Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library.   1988
Summary:  Application of primarily the Ethical Principles of Psychologists (1981) to work in missions. Seven major areas are addressed in general along with specific applications. The appendix is a good summary/worksheet.
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Author: Lindquist, B.
Title: Misuses of psychological assessment with missionaries.
Helping missionaries grow: Readings in mental health and missions (pp. 70-74).  Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library.   1988
Summary:  This is a very short article listing ten misuses of psychological tests. Same as Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 1983, 2, 15-17.
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Author: Ferguson, L. N.
Title: Essentials and tools of psychological assessment.
Helping missionaries grow: Readings in mental health and missions (pp. 62-69).  Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library.   1988
Summary:  This is a very elementary, general introduction to psychological testing. which would be appropriate for a lay person.
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Author: Augsburger, D.
Title: Pastoral counseling across cultures.
   Philadelphia: Westminister.   1986
Summary:  An outstanding book about counseling across cultures. Each chapter begins with brief stories from other cultures, and builds a theology of whatever the chapter is about. Good index at the end.
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Author: Lindquist, S. E.
Title: Is the psychological test worth it?
Evangelical Missions Quarterly,  19, 114-119.   1983
Summary:  An early article calling for the use of psychological tests in screening candidates.
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Author: Lindquist, B.
Title: Misuses of psychological assessment with missionaries.
Journal of Psychology and Christianity,  2(4), 15-17.   1983
Summary:  This is a very short article listing ten misuses of psychological tests. Same as in O'Donnell & O'Donnell (1988), Helping missionaries grow, Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library (pp. 70-74).
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