This manual introduces the AUDIT, the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test, and describes how to use it to identify persons with hazardous and harmful patterns of alcohol consumption. The AUDIT was developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) as... Read more
Disorders
A one page overview of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) documents and Test Quantitative Means of Verification (MoV)>> Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) Read more
Mental health interventions Training In view of the widespread mental health and psychosocial effects of the disasters in northern Sri Lanka, both war and the natural disaster as the tsunami, training of grass root community-level workers in basic mental... Read more
In this paper the possibilities are explored for integrating Western individualistic models of assessment and intervention in clinical psychology and psychotherapy into work in areas of armed conflict where the culture is predominantly collectivistic. Sri Lanka is used as... Read more
The paper discusses one psychosocial intervention, a children\'s play activity programme, which has been run in a number of refugee camps within Sri Lanka since 1992 to the present. It is a multi-level intervention which works with children, their... Read more
Objective: To study the impact of combat related stress and psychological management of combatants Design: Assessment of Military Hospital Psychiatric Unit attendees using a structured questionnaire. Materials & Methods: Soldiers coming for treatment at the Psychiatric Unit Military Hospital... Read more
