Using real-life examples and jargon-free advice, Dr. Tsang-Feign helps you face the unique challenges of the expat life: from preparing to move, to daily life overseas, to returning home.
Give yourself a good life abroad
On the principle that “awareness is half the cure,” psychologist Cathy Tsang-Feign identifies and explains the often unexpected personal, relationship and family problems encountered by people living abroad.
Topics include:
- The truth about ‘culture shock’
The four stages of acculturation · Transient family syndrome · and more
- Affairs and other marriage-busters
Foreign affairs · Frequent flyer family friction · Mixed marriages and cultural confusion · and much more
- Raising Third Culture Kids
Rootless third culture kids · Expat kids and money · Boarding school risks · Servants and separation · International empty nest · and more
- Being single overseas
Lonely working men · Lonely working women · Remove those masks · and more
- Expatriate burnout
Specific expat stressors · Effects of overwork on the family · Expat addictions · Identity inflation · Dealing with visitors · and more
- Coping with separation
Long-distance relationships · The ‘Astronaut Syndrome’ · Divorce in a foreign land · Home isn't always where the heart is · and more
- The unforeseen trials of returning home
When you want to get up and go · Reverse cultural shock · and much more
Read full excerpts from Living Abroad
- Culture Shock. From Chapter 1: “Problems of Moving”
- International Children. From Chapter 3: “Third Culture Kids”
- Coping with Jealousy. From Chapter 4: “Stress at Work & Home”
- Lonely Working Women. From Chapter 5: “Alone Far from Home”
- Visitors are Stressful. From Chapter 6: “Daily Life Dilemmas”
- Page 63. From Chapter 10: “Going Home”
