Appendix A

 

What Is in the Major Books about Missionary Member Care

 

 

 

 

 

Short & Simple Summary

 

            There is a big difference between telling someone that a book has 50 articles and actually telling them what the articles are about.  The four major books about missionary member care are edited books, and three of them do have about 50 authors.  This Appendix actually lists the major parts into which the books are divided and the titles of all of the articles.  Here are the four books in which the titles are listed.

 

Helping Missionaries Grow

Missionary Care

Enhancing Missionary Vitality

Doing Member Care Well

 

If you want more detail and links to other sources, read on.

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            Hundreds of articles and scores of books are available about missionary member care and all the areas it covers.  However, the four major books about missionary member care are edited books, and each one has dozens of chapters.  Two of these books are available free online along with part of a third one.  These books may also be available at very reasonable prices used—or the sellers may be asking an exorbitant amount if a book is rare.

            So that readers can know what is in these books, this appendix lists the sections into which each of the books are divided and the names of the chapters included in each section.  These four books include 181 chapters, many of which appeared earlier in journals.

 

Books about Missionary Member Care

 

Helping Missionaries Grow:  Readings in Mental Health and Missions.  (Kelly O’Donnell, Ed., 1988, William Carey Library)

This entire book is available for download at:

https://sites.google.com/site/membercaravan/test/helping-ms-grow-book

 

            This first book about missionary member care is divided into four major parts:

            Within these four major parts are sections, each containing several chapters, on the following 16 topics:

            The book contains the following 50 chapters each under one of the sections in the major parts listed above:

  1. Psychology and missions: Reflections on status and need
  2. Should I be a missionary?
  3. How to choose the right missionary
  4. Candidate selection criteria: A survey
  5. How to select the best church planters
  6. A rationale for psychological assessment of missionary candidates
  7. Essentials and tools of psychological assessment
  8. Misuses of psychological assessment
  9. How spiritual are missionaries?
  10. Missionary fit: A criterion-related model
  11. Pretraining variables in the prediction of missionary success overseas
  12. Preparation: Pay the price!
  13. A preliminary study on psychologists in missions
  14. Crucial factors in building good teams
  15. Teaching power encounter
  16. Characteristics of a healthy mission system
  17. Developmental tasks in the life cycle of mission families
  18. Stress on mission families living in “other culture” situations
  19. The missionary’s need for family life training
  20. Missionary family restoration for early returnees
  21. Stress factors in missionary marriages
  22. Positive possibilities in mid-life transitions
  23. Resolving conflicts in Christian marriage
  24. Toward a greater understanding of the real MK: A review of recent research
  25. Personality development in the children of missionary parents
  26. Missionary children: Correlates of self-esteem and dependency
  27. To send or not to send? Missionary parents ask
  28. What about the kids? MK education symposium
  29. The educational needs of children of expatriates
  30. Bonding and the missionary task
  31. Finding a sense of belonging in your new home
  32. How we reduced those early cultural surprises
  33. Stress producing factors in cultural adjustment
  34. Decreasing fatigue and illness in field work
  35. Sources of missionary stress
  36. Worksheet on balanced living
  37. Missionary relationships: Powderkeg or powerhouse?
  38. Separation: Balancing the gains and losses
  39. Overcoming stress in singleness
  40. Why do they leave?  Reflections on attrition
  41. Proactive care of missionary personnel
  42. Building relationships between mental health specialists and mission agencies
  43. The current status of the provision of mental health services to mission agencies in North America
  44. Some suggested ethical guidelines for the delivery of mental health services in mission settings
  45. Women’s roles in mission; where are we now?
  46. Wives: Homemakers or mission employees?
  47. Current issues of women and therapy
  48. Reentry stress: The pain of coming home
  49. Welcome home! Easing the pain of MK reentry
  50. Culture-sensitive counseling and the Christian mission (49 authors contributed to this volume)

 

Missionary Care:  Counting the Cost for World Evangelization (Kelly O’Donnell, Ed., 1992, William Carey Library)

This entire book is available to be viewed or downloaded at:

https://sites.google.com/site/membercaravan/test/mc-counting-the-cost-book-

 

           This second book about missionary member care is divided into five major parts.

·         Missionary Care Overview

·         Counseling and Clinical Care

·         Team Development

·         Mission Agencies and Member Care

·         Future Directions

            Each of these major parts has five of the following 25 chapters:

  1. Perspectives on member care in missions
  2. Historical notes on missionary care
  3. Core issues in missionary life
  4. A model for mutual care in missions
  5. Supporting missions through pastoral care
  6. Current issues in screening and selection
  7. Psychopathology in missionary personnel
  8. Understanding and managing stress
  9. Short-term missionary counseling
  10. Crisis intervention in the mission community
  11. Multinational teams
  12. Coaching missionary teams
  13. Field leaders and team nurture
  14. Tools for team viability
  15. Guidelines for short-term field consultants
  16. Nine essentials for organizational development
  17. The dynamics of healthy missions
  18. Career development and the mission agency
  19. Ethical concerns in providing member care services
  20. Supporting mission leaders
  21. An agenda for member care in missions
  22. The increasing role of the sending church
  23. Training and using member care workers
  24. Missionary support centers
  25. The member care consultation

(23 authors contributed to this volume)

 

Enhancing Missionary Vitality:  Mental Health Professions Serving Global Mission (John R. Powell & Joyce M. Bowers, Eds., 2002, Mission Training International, Palmer Lake, CO)

 

            This third book about missionary member care is divided into nine parts.  Like the previous two books, this one is primarily written for North American missionaries.

            The book contains the following 56 chapters each under one of the sections in the major parts listed above:

  1. The annual conference on mental health and missions: a brief history
  2. Mental health professionals in missions: An overview
  3. Mental health advances in member care
  4. Member care in the service of missions: What is in the driver’s seat?
  5. Missionary care and counseling: a brief history and challenge
  6. Pastoral and psychological caregivers
  7. A theological perspective on missionary care
  8. Whirling teacups: a bi-cycle analysis of missionary growth
  9. Spiritual dimensions in mental health
  10. Maintaining spiritual vitality: Spiritual resources for tough times
  11. A practical approach to missionary transitions
  12. Missionary stressors and implications for care
  13. Stress and coping: Learning how to be resilient
  14. Forgiveness in healing wounded servants
  15. Families in mission: Issues and resources
  16. Missionary women speak
  17. Serving single
  18. Married women in missions: The effects of role expectations on well-being and self esteem
  19. Re-entry: An introduction
  20. The reacculturation of missionary families
  21. A tripartite model for missions consultations
  22. In-house staff vs. outside consultants
  23. Organizational consulting with mission agencies
  24. What mission CEOs want from mental health professionals
  25. Dimensions of care in the missions community
  26. Choosing the right people: Factors to consider in pre-service assessment
  27. Tools used to assess missionaries
  28. The call: Psychological, cultural, & spiritual counterfeits
  29. Affective domain training: A critical ingredient in missionary preparation
  30. Training missionaries in how to relate well: Pay little now or a lot lager
  31. Team building
  32. Conflict  resolution
  33. Intersections of physical and mental health
  34. Brief counseling/therapy during overseas visits
  35. Missionaries and moods
  36. Psychosomatic disorders
  37. Crisis intervention and debriefing
  38. Caring for mission personnel in crisis: A matrix approach
  39. Mobile crisis response: Responding in the aftermath of trauma
  40. Personality disorders and overseas missions: Guidelines for the mental health professional
  41. Recognizing and dealing with demonic involvement
  42. When should they leave: Retention and referral of personnel in field settings
  43. Facilitating confession, forgiveness, and reconciliation
  44. The why and how of restorative care
  45. Long-term therapy: A long journey towards deep healing
  46. On-site and rotating professional services
  47. Mobile member care teams
  48. Virtual teams
  49. Intensive care community: Moving beyond surviving to thriving
  50. Residential care facilities
  51. Ethical principles for mental health work with missionaries
  52. Excerpts from professional codes of ethics
  53. The use and misuse of psychological assessment in missionary candidate evaluations
  54. Professional use of the internet: Legal and ethical issues in a member care environment
  55. Research in mental health and missions
  56. MK-CART/CORE: A multi-mission research model

            (46 authors contributed to this volume)

           

Doing Member Care Well:  Perspectives and Practices from around the World (Kelly O’Donnell, Ed., 2002, William Carey Library)

The first part of this book (Chapters 1-5) is available at:

https://sites.google.com/site/membercaravan/test/doing-member-care-well

 

            This fourth book about missionary member care is divided into three parts.  Unlike the previous three books, this one is primarily written for missionaries from all over the world.

Some of these parts are divided into sections, and some of the sections are subdivided as well.  Following is a list of all chapters.

  1. Going global: A member care model for best practice
  2. Developing a flow of care and caregivers
  3. Christianity and 2000: Changes today, challenges tomorrow
  4. Humanitarianism with a point
  5. Commemorating the witnesses to the faith
  6. Challenges and care for Asian missionaries
  7. MK education and care: Lessons from Asia
  8. Care for Christian workers in India: Dark obstacles and divine opportunities
  9. Field care for Asian missionaries in south Asia
  10. Member care for African mission personnel
  11. Member care in North Africa: Finding life in the desert
  12. Mobile member care team/west Africa: Our journey and direction
  13. Member care development in south Africa
  14. Tumaini Counseling Centre: Ten years in/from east Africa
  15. Awakening pastoral care in Latin American missions
  16. Pastoral care from Latin America: Some suggestions for sending churches
  17. Preparing to persevere in Brazilian missions
  18. Holding on to the good: A short experience for emotional debriefing
  19. Ministering wisely in the Middle East: Christian service under pressure
  20. Doing member care in red zones: Examples from the Middle East
  21. Jesus Christ: The heart of member care
  22. Joy and sacrifice in the Lord
  23. Giants, foxes, wolves, and flies: Helping ourselves and others
  24. Sexual purity in missions
  25. Surviving war as a caregiver: A personal account
  26. Best practice guidelines
  27. Care and support of local staff in Christian humanitarian ministry
  28. Administrative guidelines for remaining or returning
  29. Reinventing missionary commitment
  30. Running well and resting well: Twelve tools for missionary life
  31. A guest in their world
  32. Pastoral encouragement: Seven letters to Christian workers
  33. Reviewing personal spirituality
  34. Helping missionaries start healthy and stay healthy
  35. Health and safety guidelines for preventing accidents
  36. Career development for mission personnel
  37. Training Asian counselors for missionary care
  38. Building resilient teams: the CACTUS Kit
  39. The potential and pitfalls of multicultural mission teams
  40. Caring for missionary families: Applications from the military
  41. Supporting expatriate women in difficult settings
  42. A mindset and department for member care
  43. The perils of pioneering: Responsible logistics for hostile places
  44. Guidelines for crisis and routine debriefing
  45. Human rights advocacy in missions
  46. Field counseling: Sifting the wheat from the chaff
  47. The cross of Christ in debriefing and ethnic reconciliation
  48. Developing member care affiliations
  49. Global member care resource list
  50. Touring the terrain: An international sampler of member care books

(49 authors contributed to this volume)

 

181 articles in four books!