Special People? An Exploratory Study into Re-entering Missionaries’ Identity and Resilience

Selby, Susan; Braunack-Mayer, Annette; Jones, Alison; Clark, Sheila; Moulding, Nicole; Beilby, Justin

doi:10.1007/s10943-010-9337-8

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“…The dominant qualitative method involved semi-structured interviews with 15 re-entering Australian cross-cultural missionary aid workers, 3 to 12 months after their re-entry. These interviews gave a detailed collective experience of their psychological distress, while the less dominant quantitative method surveyed mental health indices and loss and grief measures: the results have been previously reported (Selby et al, 2007(Selby et al, , 2009a(Selby et al, , 2009b(Selby et al, , 2010. The loss and grief paradigm used in this study was based on Parkes' concept of psychosocial transition (1988) and Clark's concept, based on Corr (1999) of grief being a process of adaptation to loss over time that may affect the physical, emotional, cognitive, social, behavioral, and spiritual domains of the individual (Clark, 2003).…”

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“…Similarly, the missionary re-entrant also develops new roles, identities, and relationships as they negotiate their everyday life experience in their home country. For example, a number of missionaries in our study described how they had to review their pedestal status as part of their identity during their re-entry (Selby et al, 2010). Participants also described their personal/ relational identity disparities with resilient participants describing few differences in the way they saw themselves compared with their communities and less depersonalization (Selby et al, 2010).…”

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Cross-Cultural Re-Entry for Missionaries: A New Application for the Dual Process Model

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Nearly half a million foreign aid workers currently work worldwide, including over 140,000 missionaries. During re-entry these workers may experience significant psychological distress. This article positions previous research about psychological distress during re-entry, emphasizing loss and grief. At present there is no identifiable theoretical framework to provide a basis for assessment, management, and prevention of re-entry distress in the clinical setting. The development of theoretical concepts and frameworks surrounding loss and grief including the Dual Process Model (DPM) are discussed. All the parameters of the DPM have been shown to be appropriate for the proposed re-entry model, the Dual Process Model applied to Re-entry (DPMR). It is proposed that the DPMR is an appropriate framework to address the processes and strategies of managing re-entry loss and grief. Possible future clinical applications and limitations of the proposed model are discussed. The DPMR is offered for further validation and use in clinical practice.

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“…In its design, Stroebe and Schut (1999) sought to incorporate the strengths of traditional bereavement theory, as well as improving on observed limitations noted by themselves (1999, 2010; 1991), and other scholars (Bonanno & Kaltman, 1999;Caserta & Lunda, 2007;Hall, 2014;Lister, Pushkar, & Connolly, 2008;Richardson, 2006Richardson, , 2010aSelby et al, 2011;Sexton, 2013).…”

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“…A theoretical perspective that accounts for changes over time in subjective experience would provide evidence to support this view, as well as guiding the design of interventions -which the DPM can do. Finally, it is noted that the DPM has been applied to studies involving other non-bereavement losses, such as the experiences of homesickness by foreign students in Australia (Stroebe, van Vliet, Hewstone & Willis, 2002), and the resettlement of international care workers who return home to Australia (Selby et al, 2011).…”

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“…These studies have focussed on spousal bereavement, including a longitudinal design and a retrospective self-report validating the occurrence of oscillation (Bennett et al, 2010;Caserta & Lunda, 2007;Richardson, 2006Richardson, , 2007Richardson & Balaswamy, 2001 (Selby et al, 2011), foreign students experiencing homesickness (Stroebe, van Vliet, Hewstone, & Willis, 2002), and adaptive coping of patients in a Veteran Affairs hospital (Sexton, 2013).…”

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Two homes that used to be one: What has grief got to do with it?

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Despite five decades of extensive international research into children's adjustment following parental separation, little has been empirically established about the way in which children navigate this process. Furthermore, the use of children's direct reports about their experience is significantly underrepresented in the literature. Situated within a Social Constructionist framework, this thesis seeks to explore children's direct reports about their experiences during the first two years of separation. The aims of this thesis are twofold: firstly, to gain an understanding of children's experiences of adjustment following a separation based on their own reports; and secondly, to explore the extent to which a grief perspective, the Dual Process Model (DPM), assists in the understanding of these experiences.A qualitative design, utilizing an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) approach was adopted to ensure rich data would be gathered in exploring children's accounts of their own experiences. In-depth semi-structured interviews were utilized in keeping with IPA which were complemented with a range of developmentally appropriate creative mediums, such as drawing, storytelling and symbolic use of figurines. The intent was to facilitate children's expression of their experiences in offering several modalities to complement the interview process. All interviews were video recorded to capture the detail of interviews, such as silence and pauses, which were relevant to understanding the transcripts.Recruitment was initially conducted through a community based organization which was later supplemented by other recruitment sources. The final sample comprised four families, all within the first two years of separation. Seven children, aged between seven and 13 years, took part in interviews. Six parents from these four families also elected to take part in parent interviews.These parent interviews allowed another perspective/s to be gained regarding a child's unique family context and adjustment. Interviews were conducted at two points through the study, approximately six months apart. In keeping with IPA, allowing participants to talk of how their experiences changed over time was significant.Thematic analysis was first applied to the children's data, using the transcripts from both interviews. The themes were then explored against the DPM to understand the extent to which this model assisted in making sense of children's experiences.Thematic analysis resulted in the following themes being identified. Firstly, in keeping with IPA, children were asked to talk of their understanding of the separation. The Meaning of Separation thematically groups both their literal explanations of the word 'separation' and also the more complex and deeper levels of meaning they attributed to the term. Secondly, children talked about a sense of feeling Alone during the initial period of hearing about the separation, despite being around family and friends who might have been trying to interact with them. This sense of iii ...

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Systematic literature review of factors influencing reacculturation after returning home from a stay abroad

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Szabó,

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International Journal of Intercultural Relations

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Special People? An Exploratory Study into Re-entering Missionaries’ Identity and Resilience

Cited by 11 publications

References 35 publications

Cross-Cultural Re-Entry for Missionaries: A New Application for the Dual Process Model

Cross-Cultural Re-Entry for Missionaries: A New Application for the Dual Process Model

Two homes that used to be one: What has grief got to do with it?

Systematic literature review of factors influencing reacculturation after returning home from a stay abroad

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