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Singer, N.
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Life skills & assessing new candidates.
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Evangelical Missions Quarterly,
Vol. 48, pp. 342-348.
2012
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An article suggesting that life skills, such as homemaking, childcare, and social skills, be included in screening. It includes three case studies and a large table showing how 8 life skills along with growth in Christian character result in enhanced ministry rather than becoming high maintenance or quitting.
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Author: |
O'Donnell, K.
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Global member care, Volume one: The pearls and perils of good practice.
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Pasadena, CA: William Cary Library. (265 pages).
2011
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Written primarily for the faith-based community in the mission/aid sectors, this book is a good text for training purposes. Each chapter begins with five "pearls" which enhance and enrich good practice and five "perils" which enhance and endanger good practice. Throughout the chapters are "boxes" which summarize important points and "health promoters" for reflection and discussion.
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Seabrook Seven
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Tender Care: The Heart and Soul of Caring for God's Scattered Servants.
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Rockford, IL: Barnabas Books.
2010
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This book about the "heart and soul" was written by a group of seven people involved in member care of missionaries with Barnabas International. They met in Seabrook, Washington several times during a year, thus the name the Seabrook Seven. The authors are not all named because they work in sensitive areas. The book is more about who you should be than what you should do.
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Author: |
Nelson, J.
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The Engage! Study: Executive summary.
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Evangelical Missions Quarterly,
Vol. 46, pp. 288-297.
2010
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An article about a follow-up study of the US portion of ReMAP II (anonymous author). It includes results and recommendations from a web-based survey of 1727 current staff from 18 sending agencies.
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Author: |
Hay, R.
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Worth keeping: Global perspectives on best Practice.
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Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library.
2007
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This book is the report of ReMAP II, the largest research project ever done in the missions world. It took five years to complete, 40% of the world mission workforce was represented, including people from 22 countries on six continents. It gathered data on virtually every topic the Mission Commission of the World Evangelical Alliance thought could impact missionary retention.
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Author: |
O'Donnell, K.
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Wise as doves and innocent as serpents?
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Evangelical Missions Quarterly,
Vol. 43, pp. 40-49.
2007
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This article contains many practical suggestions for dealing with conflict resolution in situations involving human dysfunction involving weakness and wrongness and in biblical discipline to restore people and organizations.
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Author: |
Gamble, K.
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Assessing risk and promoting health in missionary families.
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The Family in mission: Understanding and caring for those who serve (pp. 45-56).
Palmer Lake, CO: Mission Training International.
2004
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This chapter looks at the history of the screening process and how consultant reports have been used for administrative decision-making. A model for continuous care is presented based on four "pillars" of early identification, prevention, early intervention, and readiness to receive an appropriate level of care.
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Author: |
Andrews, L. A.
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"The call" to ministry.
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The Family in mission: Understanding and caring for those who serve (pp. 33-44).
Palmer Lake, CO: Mission Training International.
2004
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A sense of Gods call is a source of strength, perseverance, and satisfaction. This chapter considers the theological dimensions, definition, and features of the call as well as things that masquerade as the call.
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Taylor, G.
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Boarding school staff: How to get the best.
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The Family in mission: Understanding and caring for those who serve (pp. 329-333).
Palmer Lake, CO: Mission Training International.
2004
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A summary of personality characteristics and desired qualities in boarding school staff. It includes suggested tests and prefield training, as well as a good summary list of characteristics. This article also appears in Evangelical Missions Quarterly, 31, January, 1995, 34-41.
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Author: |
Carr, K.
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Crisis intervention and debriefing.
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Enhancing missionary vitality: Mental health professions serving global mission (pp. 303-311).
Palmer Lake, CO: Mission Training International.
2002
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A chapter showing the effects of trauma, the need for immediate attention, and describing what should be done and major issues to be considered. It includes a step-by-step procedure for debriefing. Same as Carr (1997) Evangelical missions quarterly.
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Author: |
Gamble, K.
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Intersections of physical and mental health.
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Enhancing missionary vitality: Mental health professions serving global mission (pp. 265-274).
Palmer Lake, CO: Mission Training International.
2002
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This chapter proposes a systemic, multidisciplinary, "continuous care" model to enhance both physical and psychological health and encourage both self care and mutual care.
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Author: |
Gardner, L. M.
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Administrative guidelines for remaining or returning.
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Doing member care well: Perspectives and practices from around the world (pp. 289-294).
Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library.
2002
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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: |
Wickstrom, D. L.
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Tools used to assess missionaries.
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Enhancing missionary vitality: Mental health professions serving global mission (pp. 227-230).
Palmer Lake, CO: Mission Training International.
2002
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This chapter presents brief descriptions of the most commonly used tests for missionary candidates, primarily useful to the non-professional seeking information about pre-service assessment
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Author: |
Cerny, L. J.
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Field counseling: Sifting the wheat from the chaff.
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Doing member care well: Perspectives and practices from around the world (pp. 489-499).
Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library.
2002
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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: |
Kaak, P.
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Title: |
Provenness.
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Evangelical Missions Quarterly,
34, 164-168.
1998
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Summary: |
An article calling for prospective missionaries show that they are able to do the things they expect to do overseas by actually doing them at home, regardless of their training.
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Author: |
Wickstrom, D. L.
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Title: |
Making career choices.
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Raising resilient MKs: Resources for caregivers, parents, and teachers (pp. 130-140).
Colorado Springs, CO: Association of Christian Schools International.
1998
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Summary: |
An article on career counseling for missionaries.
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Author: |
Carr, K.
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Title: |
Crisis intervention for missionaries.
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Evangelical Missions Quarterly,
33, 450-458.
1997
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An article showing the effects of trauma, the need for immediate attention, and describing what should be done and major issues to be considered. It includes a step-by-step procedure for debriefing. Article is reprinted in Powell & Bowers (2002) Enhancing missionary vitality, pp. 303-311.
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Author: |
Schubert, E.
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The MMPI as a predictive tool for missionary candidates
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Journal of Psychology and Theology
24, 124-132.
1996
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An article describing double blind experiment for predicting missionary success by looking only at MMPI results and dividing people into "Yes," "No," and "Maybe" categories. Yes and no predictions were accurate 77% and 71% of the time, and maybe predictions were divided. Criteria are given.
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Author: |
Taylor, G.
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Title: |
Boarding school staff: How to get the best.
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Evangelical Missions Quarterly,
31, 34-41.
1995
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Summary: |
A summary of personality characteristics and desired qualities in boarding school staff. It includes suggested tests and prefield training, as well as a good summary list of characteristics. This article also appears in L. Andrews, (Ed.) 2004, The Family in mission: Understanding and caring for those who serve, pp. 329-333.
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Author: |
Schubert, E.
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Personality disorders and overseas missions: guidelines for the mental health professional.
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Journal of Psychology and Theology,
21, 18-25.
1993
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An excellent summary of personality disorders with a call to avoid placing them in overseas assignments because of what their long-term, poor-prognosis disorder can do to the mission and the work. This is a minor revision of Schubert (1991) Personality disorders and the selection process for overseas missionaries. International Bulletin of Missionary Research, 15, 33-36. It is also in Powell & Bowers (2002) Enhancing Missionary Vitality, pp. 333-342.
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Author: |
Schubert, E.
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Title: |
Current issues in screening and selection
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Missionary Care: Counting the cost for world evangelization (pp. 74-88).
Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library.
1992
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Deals with bruising, personality disorders and assessment. There is an emphasis on personality disorders, and the use of the MMPI to assess them. The MCMI may be a better tool for that.
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Author: |
Diekhoff, G. M.
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The ideal overseas missionary: A cross-cultural comparison.
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Journal of Psychology and Theology,
19, 178-185.
1991
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Most selection is aimed toward finding a good "missionary." This study shows that differences in personality are necessary for being effective in different cultures--there is no one missionary personality profile. This study surveyed 88 missionaries in 11 ministries who rated the "ideal missionary" on 25 traits. They found 4 orthogonal factors and two broad culture clusters.
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Author: |
Schubert, E.
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Title: |
Personality disorders and the selection of overseas missionaries.
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International Bulletin of Missionary Research
15, 33-36.
1991
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Summary: |
An excellent summary of personality disorders with a call to avoid placing them in overseas assignments because of what their long-term, poor-prognosis disorder can do to the mission and the work. This article was given a minor revision and appears also as Schubert (1993), Personality disorders and overseas missions: Guidelines for the mental health professional, Journal of Psychology and Theology, 21, 18-25.
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Author: |
Ringenberg, K.
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Field education system.
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Understanding and nurturing the missionary family: Compendium of the international Conference on Missionary Kids, Quito, Ecuador, January 4-8, 1987, Volume I (pp. 229-237).
Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library.
1989
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A chapter presenting the field education system in which children spend three weeks as a group, then nine weeks back at the village, then three weeks as a group. They are studying a core curriculum and the teacher at the ERC is in charge of the education
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Author: |
Morris, D.
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Counseling at the elementary level.
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Planning for MK nurture, Compendium of the international Conference on Missionary Kids, Quito, Ecuador, January 4-8, 1987, Volume II, (pp. 85-91).
Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library.
1989
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A chapter describing what an elementary school counselor at a mission school does.
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Author: |
Echerd, P.
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Planning for MK nurture. Compendium of the International Conference on Missionary Kids, Quito, Ecuador, January 4-8, 1987, Volume II.
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Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library.
1989
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Compendium of the International Conference on Missionary Kids, Quito, Ecuador, January 4-8, 1987, volume II. Contains 49 chapters grouped into six categories.
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Author: |
Johnson, C. B.
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The current status of the provision of psychological services in missionary agencies in North America.
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Helping missionaries grow: Readings in mental health and missions (pp. 458-465).
Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library.
1988
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An 11 item survey of 55 mission agencies shows the use of psychological services by those agencies. The problem of relationships with other missionaries was by far the most frequent problem, and psychology or counseling training was the background of about half of the providers, and 60% were consultants. Same as in The Bulletin of the Christian Association for Psychological Studies, 1981, 7(4), 25-27.
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Author: |
Graham, T.
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How to select the best church planters.
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Helping missionaries grow: Readings in mental health and missions (pp. 46-54).
Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library.
1988
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A good description of a behavioral-situational assessment center used by mission to the world. A great idea, but difficult to implement--however, far better than so many people leaving. Same as Evangelical Missions Quarterly, 1987, 23, 70-79.
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Author: |
Williams, K.
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Worksheet on balanced living.
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Helping missionaries grow: Readings in mental health and missions (pp. 390-398).
Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library.
1988
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This is an excellent worksheet for assessing workload, its stress, and its effect on other relationships with suggestions for moving toward a balanced life.
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Author: |
Cureton, C. B.
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Missionary Fit: A Criterion-Related Model.
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Helping missionaries grow: Readings in mental health and missions (pp. 83-92).
Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library.
1988
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An attempt to show criterion-related validity on a study done on 44 people attending the mental health and missions conference in 1980. Basically showed that mental health workers, missionaries and a combination of the two agreed. Same as the Journal of Psychology and theology, 1983, 11, 196-202.
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Author: |
Graham, T.
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Title: |
How to select the best church planters.
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Evangelical Missions Quarterly,
23, 70-79.
1987
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A good description of a behavioral-situational assessment center used by mission to the world. A great idea, but difficult to implement--however, far better than so many people leaving. Same as O'Donnell & O'Donnell (1988), Helping Missionaries Grow (46-54), Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library.
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Author: |
Blackwell, P.
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Special education needs on the mission field.
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New directions in missions: Implications for MKs. Compendium of the International Conference on Missionary Kids, Manila, Philippines, November 5-9, 1984 (pp. 257-264).
Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library.
1986
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A chapter pointing out that although there are really learning disabled children on the field, many are labeled as LD when the problem is one of four other things.
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Author: |
Foyle, M.
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Missionary stress and what to do about it.
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Evangelical Missions Quarterly,
21, 32-40.
1985
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First in a series of articles about stress giving a general introduction to stress. Much of this article is also found in Chapter 1 and other parts of Foyle (1987) Overcoming missionary stress, Wheaton, IL: Evangelical Missions Information Service.
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Author: |
Cureton, C. B.
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Title: |
Missionary Fit: A Criterion-Related Model.
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Journal of Psychology and Theology,
11, 196-202.
1983
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An attempt to show criterion-related validity on a study done on 44 people attending the mental health and missions conference in 1980. Basically showed that mental health workers, missionaries and a combination of the two agreed. Same as in O'Donnell & O'Donnell (1988), Helping missionaries grow, Pasadena, CA: William Carey Press (pp. 83-92).
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