Chandradasa Miyuru, Kuruppuarachchi K A L A
Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka; Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Colombo North Teaching Hospital, Ragama, Sri Lanka, email
Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.
BJPsych Int. 2017 May 1;14(2):36-37. doi: 10.1192/s2056474000001756. eCollection 2017 May.
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.
斯里兰卡的内战以及2004年的海啸对该国儿童产生了巨大的心理影响。由于缺乏儿童和青少年精神病学方面的专家,解决这些问题一直很困难。2009年内战结束为斯里兰卡儿童和青少年心理健康服务的发展开辟了新途径。2016年具有历史意义,因为首批获得委员会认证的儿童和青少年精神科医生在澳大利亚接受培训后,开始在该国提供服务。