This article describes clinical supervision of counsellors as a structured process that encompasses emotional support, education and monitoring of professional performance. It is based on the experiences of the authors while supervising counselors with limited professional education in areas of armed conflict.

Keywords: assesment, case-conceptualisa-tion, clinical supervision, counselling.

What is clinical supervision

Little is known about the usefulness of psychiatric concepts and psychotherapeutic approaches for refugees who have experienced severe traumatic events and continue to live in stressful and potentially dangerous conditions in refugee settlements. The central goal of the Nakivale Camp Mental Health Project is to establish the usefulness of shortterm treatment approaches when applied by local paramedical personnel in a disaster region.

This article describes the problems of former Ethiopian soldiers with their reintegration into civil life. During an anthropological fied study, 60 excombatants were interviewed. They reportedfeeling frustrated about the lack f interest in their living conditions on the part of the Ethiopian public and Ethiopian and Western Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs). They felt that they had no future perspective. Some of them admitted knowing former sodiers who had contacted HIV/AIDS, or who were guilty of criminal violence.

The tent of stories is a method of engaging refugee children in storytelling and social interaction. Through the tent and a ‘story-stone’ a safe and structured environment is created. Different ways of processing a story are explained. In dealing with stories, children learn to use their imagination as a valuable coping strategy. Like any good method the ‘tent of stories’ evolved through interaction with the children it was meantfor. This article tells the story of the ‘tent of stories’ itself