Psychology of Missionary Adjustment
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Now you can understand the psychological adjustments missionaries face on and off the field. A missionary and psychologist identify challenges encountered from the moment future missionaries first hear God’s call, through their years of ministry, and when they leave the foreign mission field. The authors approach the topic in a scholarly manner and cite examples from missionary families.
- Examines the effects of overseas living on all aspects of missionary adjustment
- Analyzes common challenges of missionary life
- Combines applied psychology and missionary experience
- The Pedestal
- The Rupture
- The Language Grind
- Bonding
- The Letdown
- The Goldfish Bowl
- Square Pegs and Round Holes
- Dealing with Guilt
- Conflicts
- Reentry
- Satisfaction
- Title: Psychology of Missionary Adjustment
- Authors: Marge Jones, E. Grant Jones
- Publisher: Logion Press
- Print Publication Date: 1995
- Logos Release Date: 2019
- Pages: 176
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Missionaries › Psychology; Missions › Theory; Psychology, Religious
- ISBNs: 0882433210, 9780882433219
- Resource ID: LLS:PSYCHLGYDJSTMNT
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:30:27Z
Marge Jones has been a missionary for nearly four decades, currently serving as a Bible instructor at the Senegal Bible Institute in Dakar, Senegal, West Africa. She earned her B.S. from Southwest Missouri State University and her M.Ed. in Guidance and Counseling from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is the mother of three children, and she resides in Dakar with her husband Ernest.