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9.1 Reverse Culture Shock
For many, the re-entry process can be a very worrying and frustrating time - with a job to find, a new home to set up, church fellowship to re-establish, children's schooling to sort out, the climate to get used to and reverse culture shock to face and possible feelings of guilt and anger to cope with - you can expect a difficult few months to begin with!
So be prepared for reverse culture shock. Depending on the length of time away, things will have changed back home. Old friends and colleagues will have moved on and are often not interested in hearing of your experiences. Both you and they will have changed. Life in the UK may well be very different from where you have been working and from what it was like when you originally left
EQUIP, a function of Actions Partners, runs a twice yearly 3 day course at Bawtry Hall nr. Doncaster, for 'returnees,' entitled 'New directions' www.actionpartnerscorp.org.uk/training/index.php
All Nations Christian College www.allnations.ac.uk/ run similar courses
You, and the family, should have a medical check and debriefing session on your return from working abroad and the agency you have worked with may well arrange this for you.
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Acknowledgements
My thanks to Chris Lavy, Eldryd Parry, Ian Spillman and Nick Wooding, all of whom have worked overseas and have a continuing involvement, for their helpful comments and advice.
First edition 1994 - Entitled ‘A Medical Missions Handbook’ by Peter Saunders.
Second Edition 1998 (updated April 2000)
Third Edition September 2003 - by Peter Armon
Fourth Edition 2007 – renamed ‘Working Abroad’ - totally revised & rewritten by Peter Armon
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