Keep Your Life, Family and Career Intact While Living Abroad: What every expat needs to know (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789627866183)

The challenges of living in a foreign country don't begin and end with culture shock. If you're planning a move abroad, you need to prepare yourself for the unique pressures, anxieties and personal and family problems common to all expatriates, which are often difficult to anticipate and a challenge to overcome, including:

• Culture shock: what is it really?
• Long-distance relationships with friends and family
• Affairs and other marriage-stressors
• Raising third culture kids
• Being single overseas
• Business travel booby-traps
• Expatriate burnout
• The unforeseen trials of returning home
• ...and much, much more

Expatriate psychologist Dr. Cathy Tsang-Feign uses real-life examples and easy-to-understand explanations to fully prepare you for a move abroad, and to help those already there to help themselves live a well-rounded, satisfying life.

On the principle that "awareness is half the cure," Dr. Tsang-Feign identifies and explains most of the common personal, relationship and family problems encountered by people living abroad: from the initial culture shock to the special joys and pitfalls of the expatriate experience, to the challenges of re-entering your own native country.

This expanded edition contains new information on expatriate relationships and marriage, third culture kids, and a thorough guide to finding help abroad.