Citation

Chandradasa M, Kuruppuarachchi KALA. BJPsych Int. 2017; 14(2): 36-37.

Affiliation

Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Royal College of Psychiatrists)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

29093936

PMCID

PMC5618812

Abstract

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.

Language: en