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Published on: September 19, 2019
Child and youth mental health in postwar Sri Lanka
Miyuru Chandradasa1, K A L A Kuruppuarachchi2
1Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka; Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Colombo North Teaching Hospital, Ragama, Sri Lanka, email miyuruc@kln.ac.lk.
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.
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