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Child and youth mental health in post-war Sri Lanka

Part of: Children's Mental Health Collection BJPsych International Country Profiles Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Miyuru Chandradasa  and
K. A. L. A. Kuruppuarachchi
Miyuru Chandradasa
Affiliation:
Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka; Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Colombo North Teaching Hospital, Ragama, Sri Lanka, email miyuruc@kln.ac.lk
K. A. L. A. Kuruppuarachchi
Affiliation:
Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka's civil war and the tsunami in 2004 had enormous psychological impacts on the country's children. Tackling these issues has been difficult due to the lack of specialists in child and adolescent psychiatry. The end of the war in 2009 opened new avenues for the development of mental health services for children and youth in Sri Lanka. The year 2016 was historic in that the first board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrists assumed services in the country, after training in Australia.

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BJPsych International , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , May 2017 , pp. 36 - 37
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