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In this paper, a number of training experts with different cultural backgrounds and theoretical and technical approaches dialogue. Their aim is to open a debate on what kind of competences mental health professionals dealing with migrants and migration should have. Today's major social transformations are bringing about changes in clinical practice, in the organisation of care services and in job opportunities: all of this implies an inevitable rethinking of training. Everyone agrees in recognising the group device as one of the main resources to face these difficulties. The reception of migrants leads to important experiences of bewilderment towards the new and uncertainty towards one's own cultural paradigms. It is fundamental to learn notions of anthropology and ethno-psychology to be able to listen to the other and understand his/her real needs within his/her personal and specific cultural and meaning framework, made of peculiar symbolic registers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]