Dear Friends!
Reidar Ommundsen wishes to draws our attention to the important journal "Intervention: International Journal of Mental Health, Psychosocial Work and Counselling in Areas of Armed Conflict"!

Now available: Volume 3: Number 2: Summer 2005

Counselling in Cambodia
Willem van de Putt and Guus van der Veer investigate the effectiveness and practicalities of counselling as an approach, and the role that westerners can play in a non-western setting.

Evaluating Narrative Theatre Training
Narrative theatre is a popular intervention for addressing socially-constucted problems, but the implementations, effectiveness and delivery of NT training need to be quantified and evaluated. Meyer-Weitz and Sliep consider the parameters and models for evaluation, and look at some specific cases from the field.

Trees Coloured Pink
Reporting from a War Child project in Kosovo, Wertheim-Cahen et al. look at the history and evaluation of this major project. Having offered creative arts therapy to children over a five-year period, they note changes in the project's approach, evaluate its results so far and consider its contribution to the future.

The Tibetan Healing System: A psychosocial needs assessment.
Schwartz, et al. document the needs-assessment carried out among prisoners, refugees and torture-victims exiled in Nepal. They consider the roles of the ancient Tibetan healing system and of Buddhist teachings, compare beliefs with traditional healers, and discover useful cultural models and vocabulary for defining needs.

Walking to Work: Supervising Intervention in Kosovo
Supervision of psychosocial counselling teams is a task that means walking to work, according to Kuscu. It's just one of his strategies for gaining trust and understanding in locations where many international staff live in comparative isolation from the community they are treating. Listening, chatting and keeping a low profile are also important to consider.

Volume 3 -Number 2
Supplement - Training Teachers in Areas of Armed Conflict - Kos, A.M.

Teachers in schools are a prime resource for children. They are uniquely positioned to offer culturally-sensitive interventions. Anica Mikus Kos has produced a manual for training teachers which consolidates a broad experience in the field and looks at the practical issues to be considered in setting up courses for the training of trainers.
Chapters: The importance of good people; Training teachers in areas of armed conflict: Basic principles; The protective role of the school; The training program; The Training of Trainers; The Seminars for Teachers; Voluntary work inside schools; Assessing the impact of the program ; Preventing difficulties.

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