Global Family Vocabulary
A
- Accompanying partner
- Accompanying Partner Career Disruption (AP Career Disruption)
- Acculturation
- Additive Bilingualism
- Adult Third Culture Kid (ATCK)
- Aging Abroad and “Last Move” Decisions (AALMD)
- Ambiguous Loss
- Anticipatory Grief
- Anticipatory Socialization
- Assigned Expatriate (AE)
- Assignment Failure
- Assignment Success
- Association for the Advancement of International Education (AAIE)
- Association of American Schools in South America (AASSA) / American International Schools in the Americas (AMISA)
- Association of International Schools in Africa (AISA)
B
C
- Central and Eastern European Schools Association (CEESA)
- Code-Switching
- Community Fatigue with Transience (CFT)
- Commuter Assignment
- Continuity of Therapeutic Support
- Controlled Substance Regulations Abroad
- Cost of Living Allowance (COLA)
- Council of International Schools (CIS)
- Cross-Cultural Assessment
- Cross-Cultural Kid (CCK)
- Cross-Cultural Training (CCT)
- Cultural Adaptation
- Cultural Adjustment
- Cultural Agility
- Cultural Chameleon
- Cultural Fatigue
- Cultural Homelessness
- Cultural Humility
- Cultural Identity
- Cultural Intelligence (CQ)
- Cultural Mediator
- Cultural Stress
- Culture Shock
- Cumulative Loss
D
- Departure Cycle
- Dependent Pass (DP)
- Destination Services Provider (DSP)
- Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (DMIS)
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
- Diagnostic Masking
- Diagnostic Overshadowing
- Digital Nomad Family (DNF)
- Diplomatic Partner (DP)
- Distance Families
- Dominant Language Shift
- Dual Professional/Dual-Career Couple
E
- East Asia Regional Council of Schools (EARCOS)
- Educational Collaborative for International Schools (ECIS)
- Educational Continuity
- Emotional Intelligence/Emotional Quotient (EQ)
- Emotional Regulation
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Employee Relations (ER)
- English as a Lingua Franca (ELF)
- English as a Second Language (ESL)
- English as an Additional Language (EAL)
- Ethical International Volunteering
- Ethnocentrism
- Ethnocultural Empathy
- Ethnorelativism
- Expandable Worldview
- Expat Bubble
- Expat Depression
- Expat Relocation (ER)
- Expatriate Coach
- Expatriate Family
- Experiential Learning
G
H
I
- Identity Confusion
- Identity Disruption
- Immigration Advisor
- Inclusive International School
- Integration
- Intercultural Coach
- Intercultural Communication Competence (ICC)
- Intercultural Competence
- Intercultural Curiosity
- Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI)
- Intercultural Sensitivity
- Intercultural Trainer
- International Assignment
- International Baccalaureate (IB)
- International Coaching Federation (ICF)
- International Curriculum
- International Mindedness
- International School
- Intersectional Global Family Experience (IGFE)
L
- Language Brokering
- Language Identity
- Language Loss
- Language Maintenance
- Language of Instruction
- Late Diagnosis
- Later-Life Return Migration Identity (LLRMI)
- Learning Support
- Left-Behind Parent
- LGBTQIA+ Global Family (LGF)
- Liminality
- Lingua Franca Identity
- Linguistic Identity Affirmation
- Linguistic Repertoire
- Local Inclusion Pathways (LIP)
M
P
R
S
- Sandwich Generation Expat
- School Search Consultant
- School Transition
- School Transition
- Secondo
- Self-Initiated Expatriate (SIE)
- Sense of Agency
- Sense of Belonging
- Social Network Building
- Society for Intercultural Education Training and Research (SIETAR)
- Soft Landing
- Sojourner
- Special Educational Needs / Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEN/SEND)
- Split-Family Assignment
- Spousal Adjustment
- Strengths-Based Coaching
- Strengths-Based Learning