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Professionals from western countries often supervise local stai in mental health projects implemented in low-income and emergency-aiected contexts. The work of these supervisors is always intercultural: it involves people from diierent cultural backgrounds. The supervisor has the responsibility to initiate and monitor these intercultural processes. The supervisor must be able to recognize diierences within the supervision group and between supervisor and supervisee, and to question the values of any culture, including his/her own.