The province of Aceh has suffered enormously from the perennial armed conflict and the devastating Tsunami in 2004. Despite the waves of external aid and national concern geared toward improving healthcare services as part of the reconstruction and rehabilitation... Read more
Tsunami
After the Tsunami: Mental Health Challenges to the Community for Today and Tomorrow Read more
Van Eenwyk, J. R., & Jayawickrama, J. (2006). Disaster-related mental health: indoctrination or collaboration?. The Lancet, 368(9532), 285-286. Margaret Harris Cheng's review of conditions in Sri Lanka (Jan 7, p 15)1 after the tsunami of Dec 26, 2004, outlines... Read more
Editors’ Note: The December 2004 tsunami captured the world’s attention and generated wide-spread and worldwide responses. A small number of previous Martín-Baró Fund grantees as well as “Friends of the Fund” live and work in communities affected by structural... Read more
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
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
Berger, R., & Gelkopf, M. (2009). School-based intervention for the treatment of tsunami-related distress in children: a quasi-randomized controlled trial. Psychotherapy and psychosomatics, 78(6), 364-371. Background: On December 26, 2004, a tsunami hit the southern coast of Sri Lanka,... Read more
Ashraf, H. (2005). Tsunami wreaks mental health havoc. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 83(6), 405-406. 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
In the wake of the tsunami that hit Sri Lanka on 26 December, 2004, killing at least 38,000 people, and displacing up to a million more, UNFPA decided to broaden its traditional emphasis on reproductive health to address the... Read more
