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Book recommendations

The following books and PDFs are recommended by Membercare Network Switzerland:

Just as a space shuttle has difficulty re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere, people returning from abroad can be confused and panic when they get home. While people assume that going abroad will bring major changes to their lifestyle and thinking, few anticipate the difficulties they will encounter on their return. This encouraging and insightful book is designed to ease the re-entry process and covers the following important topics: Adjusting to the passport culture, recognizing potential difficulties, dealing with emotional challenges, finding a new job, a new home, learning the social customs, Returning is not coming home but leaving home, Facilitating a smooth transition for those on the receiving end. Expatriates, missionaries, mission leaders, mission pastors, mission churches, and supporters interested in facilitating reintegration will benefit greatly from this book.

ISBN-10: 083085617X
ISBN-13: 978-0830856176

This book examines how member care is practiced around the world to help sending organizations provide targeted support to their mission and relief workers. The information provided includes personal accounts, guidelines, case studies, worksheets and practical advice from around the world.

“This book delivers what it promises! It contains 50 chapters from the most diverse authors in the field of membership services to date.” – Brent Lindquist, President, Link Care Center.

This book was published in cooperation with the World Evangelical Alliance.

ISBN-10: 087808446
ISBN-13: 978-0878084463

Texts, stories and questions for reflection for those who choose a life partner from a culture or social group other than their own. This book is designed to help you describe yourself and broaden your understanding of how people from different backgrounds live their lives. It will help you answer the following questions: Is this person right for me? Knowing that it is a wise decision for God’s purposes, and later perhaps: How can we enrich our marriage?

ISBN-10: 099267137X
ISBN-13.978-0992671372

In this third edition of the groundbreaking global classic, Ruth E. Van Reken and Michael V. Pollock, son of the late original co-author David C. Pollock, have comprehensively updated the work widely recognized as “The TCK Bible.” Focuses on modern TCK and addressing the impact of technology, cultural complexity, diversity and inclusion, and transitions. Includes new advice for parents and others on how to support TCKs in managing work, relationships, social situations and their personal development.

ISBN-10: 1473657660
ISBN-13.978-1473657663

You have lived abroad. Now you are returning “home”.

Once there, you realize that a lot has changed. You have also changed during your time abroad. This book is a guide for the time you spend abroad and for reintegration after your stay abroad.

This book provides you with valuable tips

for optimal preparation of the return
for an overview of potential stress factors and coping strategies
for dealing with re-integration dynamics
how you can benefit from your experience abroad in your professional and private life
for the special challenges of returning with children and young people

ISBN-10: 1473657660
ISBN-13.978-1473657663

Returning from abroad with children. Experiencing and actively shaping transition as a family.

A practical guide for returnees from abroad with children and young people. From the first considerations about the right time to the arrival in the new/old home country, a clearly structured guide. Weltkind as a handbook for families returning from abroad. With lots of ideas and material for children and young people. Suitable for all ages.

ISBN-10: 3752811315
ISBN-13.978-3752811315

You have lived abroad for a while. Now you are about to return home. But what if it has become foreign to you in the meantime? What awaits you “at home”? And what do you expect from your return? Well thought-out planning and realistic goals are the be-all and end-all of a successful return and reintegration.

This guide gives you valuable tips,

how to optimally prepare your return,
how to involve your family in your plans,
how to stay on top of things during the stress of moving,
what is important for you on arrival,
how you can benefit from your experience abroad in your professional and private life.

ISBN-10: 3869360739
ISBN-13.978-3869360737

Humanitarian work has developed from small-scale assistance by individuals, missionaries, charities, communities and foundations to a wide variety of programs organized by large and small international and national NGOs (non-governmental organizations), national governments, and transnational organizations such as the United Nations. Humanitarian organizations today are more professionally managed and better equipped and prepared than years ago. However direct exposure to misery, the ever-growing numbers of people affected by humanitarian crises, deteriorating safety and security conditions, and limited available resources mean that humanitarian workers remain exposed to a wide variety of sources of stress.

Good staff care and psychosocial care have proven to be an important asset in stress management and the prevention and treatment of traumatic and post-traumatic stress. However, although there is awareness of these issues in most organizations, adequate care systems for national and international staff are often underdeveloped and lack attention and resources.

Having wide experience of both national and international humanitarian agencies worldwide, the Antares Foundation has seen the importance of addressing stress on all levels in many organizations. Requests for information, ideas and strategies for developing a stress program for humanitarian workers led to the development and implementation of these Guidelines for Good Practice.

When stress leads to a state of physicalphysical, emotional and mental exhaustionmental exhaustion, the term “burnout” is used. The term was first coined by the American psychotherapist Herbert Freudenberger described. He describes observed how committed helpers people who no longer had the strength to treat others with the necessary empathy and professionalism. This is not a case of ordinaryfatigue at work, but a condition condition that is associated with alternating feelings feelings of exhaustion and tension.that is. In a destructive cycle This leads to pronounced changes in the person concerned. This severely disrupts the atmosphere in a team. Withdrawal and strained relationships also occur in private life.

How can we understand stress? How can you make positive use of challenges (“eustress”) without breaking down due to overload (“distress”)? How do you recognize the warning signs? And how can you organize your life so that it doesn’t fall apart at the seams?

The seminar booklet aims to provide suggestions and refer to further literature. The aim of the information is to help people understand themselves and those affected better and to provide them with professional and sensitive support.

ISBN-10: 3905709252
ISBN-13.978-3905709254

Yout have looked for a life partner in familiar circles but found no one. Or none of them have worked. Then you meet someone from a totally different culture or country, and you ask wether or not this relationsship could last, and how…

This book will help you gain a clearer understanding of yourselves, your respective cultures, and of each other.

ISBN-10: 1434381161
ISBN-13: 978-1434381163

Are you planning an assignment abroad or are you already in intercultural service? The framework conditions for foreign assignments are subject to extreme change. A family that goes abroad has to face many challenges. Globalization, increased security risks, unstable political conditions, the Internet and the need for the greatest possible mobility lead to constantly changing living and working conditions.

With this book, Annemie Grosshauser encourages families who are facing these challenges. In addition, she encourages and sensitizes friends, congregations, personnel managers and those responsible in sending organizations in their supportive accompaniment. She draws attention to the opportunities and losses that can arise from cross-cultural ministry. She focuses on the resilience of the family, which rests primarily on three pillars: the marital capacity of the parents, respect for the individuality of the children and spiritual stability within the family. When parents build on this foundation, their ministry becomes a blessing both for their children growing up interculturally and for the people they want to witness to through their example and commitment.

ISBN-10: 3868270396
ISBN-13: 978-3868270396