Catani, C., Kohiladevy, M., Ruf, M., Schauer, E., Elbert, T., & Neuner, F. (2009). Treating children traumatized by war and Tsunami: a comparison between exposure therapy and meditation-relaxation in North-East Sri Lanka. BMC psychiatry, 9(1), 1. Background: The North-Eastern... Read more
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Carballo, M., Heal, B., & Horbaty, G. (2006). Impact of the tsunami on psychosocial health and well-being. International Review of Psychiatry, 18(3), 217-223. Natural and man-made disasters affect everyone in their path. Some people are nevertheless more vulnerable than... Read more
Betancourt, T. S., Meyers-Ohki, M. S. E., Charrow, M. A. P., & Tol, W. A. (2013). Interventions for children affected by war: an ecological perspective on psychosocial support and mental health care. Harvard review of psychiatry, 21(2), 70. Background:... Read more
Mental health service user groups and advocacy movements are widely believed to significantly influence changes in services and factors which affect the lives of persons with mental illnesses. World Health Organization (WHO) has clearly emphasized the advantage of active... Read more
Ashraf, H. (2005). Tsunami wreaks mental health havoc. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 83(6), 405-406. Read more
Amaratunga, C. A., & O'Sullivan, T. L. (2006). In the path of disasters: Psychosocial issues for preparedness, response, and recovery. Prehospital and disaster medicine, 21(03), 149-153. The psychosocial impacts of disasters are profound. In recent years, there have been... Read more
On 26th December 2004 the Asian Ocean Tsunami claimed the lives of over 300,000 people and left many more displaced, homeless, and irrecoverably changing lives. Action Aid responded to the mammoth disaster with a multi-country emergency programme, targeting the... Read more
Knipe, D. W., Metcalfe, C., Fernando, R., Pearson, M., Konradsen, F., Eddleston, M., & Gunnell, D. (2014). Suicide in Sri Lanka 1975–2012: age, period and cohort analysis of police and hospital data. BMC public health, 14(1), 839. Background: Sri... Read more
Perera, J., Gunawardane, N., & Jayasuria, V. (2011). Review of research evidence on gender based violence (GBV) in Sri Lanka. Colombo: Sri Lanka Medical Association. This document summarises the literature published between 1982 and 2011 on gender based violence... Read more
Post-Conflict Sri Lanka: The Lack of Mental Health Research and Resources among Affected Populations
Sritharan, J., & Sritharan, A. (2014). Post-Conflict Sri Lanka: The Lack of Mental Health Research and Resources among Affected Populations. International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 4(3). This paper examines the available published literature on the post-conflict and... Read more
