Third culture kids/global nomads have typically interacted with two or more cultures during their developmental years - those years that shape who they are as human beings. As they go about living their normal highly mobile, cross-cultural lives, they have no clue as to how they are being impacted. But one day they have an experience that wakes them up to the fact that they are different from others. This commonly takes place upon repatriation for college or university when they are surrounded ...
AUTHOR(s): Quick, Tina L. , Reken, Ruth Van
PUBLISHER: Summertime Publishing ISBN: 978-1-904881-21-6
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Children who grow up outside of their parent’s passport country, Third Culture Kids (TCKs), experience a significant number of losses, grief-inducing experiences, and traumas during their developmental years. These events stack up like blocks on a tower throughout the life of the TCK, creating what Lauren Wells has coined the Grief Tower. If it continues to stack without these experiences being processed, a TCK's Grief Tower is likely to crash in their early adulthood. But is this avoidable? Ca...
AUTHOR(s): Lauren Wells
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For Adults too!A steady best-seller and The Invisible String is reaching all over the World!OVER 1/4 MILLION copies sold! "That's impossible", said twins Jeremy & Liza after their Mom told them they're all connected by this thing called an Invisible String. "What kind of string"? They asked with a puzzled look to which Mom replied, "An Invisible String made of love." That's where the story begins. A story that teaches of the tie that really binds. The Invisible String reaches from heart to hear...
AUTHOR(s): Karst, Patrice
PUBLISHER: DeVorss & Company ISBN: 978-0-87516-734-3
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AUTHOR(s): Zoer, Martine
PUBLISHER: Foreign Service Youth Foundation ISBN: 978-0-9658538-4-2
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The long-term impact of boarding school can manifest itself as 'boarding school syndrome' - a condition counsellors need to be aware of and work with.
SOURCE: Brighton Therapy Partnership
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