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

This article focuses on the psychological consequences ofoppression in the form f caste-based discrimination in India. These psychological consequences are described as processes in the minds of oppressed people, processes that are often unconscious.

In this article a form of psychotherapy for trauma-tised children and adolescents (KIDNET) is described. This approach is based on Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET), a short-term treatment method for traumatised adults. The description of KIDNET is illustrated with a detailed report of the successful treatment of a severely traumatised 13-year old refugee child

Keywords: child, adolescent, cognitive behavioural therapy, Narrative Exposure Therapy, NET, PTSD, refugees organised violence, war, Somalia.

In this article we describe our experiences with the development of mental health raining modules for doctors, nurses, midwives and village health volunteers in the context of a general basic health care programme in Eastern Afghanistan. The article contains references to resources to be used by developing mental health care training modules for health workers.

Keywords: mental health, training. Introduction

This article presents the results of a research project whose objective was to describe and analyse how people seeking asylum in the Netherlands² make sense f their experience. The broader aim of this study was to provide information that could lead to improved mental health care (Kramer, Bala, Dijk van, & Öry, 2003). This article accordingly ends with suggestions to implement the study’s findings in other countries where refugees face uncertainty.

Key words: asylum seekers, coping, qualitative research, refugees

Although there has been peace in most parts of Uganda since 1986, in Mbarara district in southwest Uganda nobody talks about their war experience; there is one big conspiracy fsilence. According to the people who live there, it is not good to talk, it can be dangerous and can make you ill. This article deals with the question why these people keep silent about their horrifying war experiences. It appears that the community and the social and cultural institutions have been destroyed. People have no public space to share their memories of the war.

This article shows how a psychosocial project initiated by a Western, medical humanitarian organisation can connect with non-Western local traditions. In this case, the traditional folk theatre of the rural areas in Kashmir is used as a medium for psychoeducation.

Keywords: folk theatre, psycho-education, local tradition

Folk Theatre in Kashmir

In this paper, Narrative Theatre is described as a means of strengthening the social fabric in dislocated communities. In the first part, we describe basic theoretical constructs underlying the social foundation of human functioning. The key elements are bonding and bridging as dynamic features of social fabric. This is followed by a brief discussion of the emancipatory roots of Narrative Theatre. In the third part, we give a conceptual framework based on deconstructing problem stories and reconstructing the emancipatory opportunities in the preferred stength-based story.

The war informer Yugoslavia (1991-95) exposed hundreds ofthousands of children and adolescents to very intensive, often multiple traumatic experiences, followed by a chain f chronic and increasing problems in exile. This paper describes the theoretical framework, implementation and evaluation of Youth Clubs, a community-based psychosocial intervention implemented during the war years with the aim of supporting the psychosocial recovery and reintegration ofyoung refugees in Serbia.

Abstract. The psychological well-being of' 114