Editor's introduction / David Ingleby -- PART I. HUMANITARIAN AID AND RECONSTRUCTION -- From trauma to survival and adaptation: towards a framework for guiding mental health initiatives in post-conflict societies / Derrick Silove -- Transforming local and global discourses: reassessing the PTSD movement in Bosnia and Croatia / Paul Stubbs -- Traumatic stress in context: a study of unaccompanied minors from Southern Sudan / Olle Jeppsson, Anders Hjern -- Meeting the mental health needs of children who have been associated with fighting forces: some lessons from Sierra Leone / Ian Clifton-Everest -- PART II. SERVICE PROVISION IN HOST COUNTRIES -- "My whole body is sick... my life is not good": a Rwandan asylum seeker attends a psychiatric clinic in London / Derek Summerfield -- Mental health care for refugee children in exile / Anders Hjern, Olle Jeppsson -- Getting closer: methods of research with refugees and asylum seekers / Sander Kramer -- Kurdish women refugees: obstacles and opportunities / Choman Hardi -- Beyond the personal pain: integrating social and political conerns in therapy with refugees / Julia Bala -- Mental health services in the UK: lessons from transcultural psychiatry / Suman Fernando -- Mental health and social care for asylum seekers and refugees: a comparative study / David Ingleby, Charles Watters.